Behind the NFL’s Labor Negotiations Andrew Brandt of the National Football Post takes a look behind the curtain at the mediation between the NFL and the NFL Players Association, with mediator George Cohen. Brandt’s The Busine$$ of Football column is excellent reading for all NFL fans asking the question of whether there will be football in [...]
Ben Berger on Sirius Radio to Discuss Business of Soccer
January 24, 2011 By 1 Comment
Friday Sports Briefs
April 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Thanks to Ben Berger of FootieBusiness.com As he mentioned on footiebusiness.com, Ben Berger was a guest lecturer in my Sports Law class at Quinnipiac School of Law this week. Ben’s presentation was excellent and his knowledge of the business of soccer, especially MLS, was tremendous. Although we tend to focus on the four major sports leagues [...]
Friday Sports Briefs
March 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
John Daly Loses Libel Suit, Tweets Reporter’s Phone Number Over on the Sports Agent & Sports Lawyer Blog, Jason Wolf covers John Daly’s libel suit against the Jacksonville Times-Union newspaper. According to Wolf, the judge in that matter granted summary judgment in favor of newspaper, finding that there was no “actual malice” and that the offending column [...]
Friday Sports Briefs
February 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Congratulations to Footiebusiness, Ben Berger Connecticut Sports Law Guest Columnist Ben Berger celebrated the 1-year anniversary of his blog Footiebusiness this week. Ben offers links to his favorite posts from the past year: 1. Our interviews with various MLS Marketing Directors and front office reps about the marketing of American soccer. 2. Our series on [...]
FootieBusiness.com on Seattle Soccer Suit
July 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
FootieBusiness.com, published by Ben Berger, has published a couple of interesting posts concerning a lawsuit filed against MLS soccer player Nate Jacqua alleging sexual assault. The first post deals with the fact that the plaintiff sued multiple parties, including the MLS and two MLS teams in connection with Jacqua’s alleged off-field actions: The inclusion of multiple [...]
Can Rule-Abiding Players Sue Alleged Cheaters? English Soccer Squabble May Hold the Answers
March 18, 2009 By 4 Comments
Imagine if Mike Greenwell sued Jose Canseco for the loss of endorsements that Greenwell would have received had he won Major League Baseball’s MVP award in 1988, rather than the artificially enhanced Canseco. And what if Kurt Warner, Marshall Faulk and some of their St. Louis Rams teammates sued the New England Patriots on the grounds that the team’s [...]
MLS: Who owns David Beckham?
March 5, 2009 By 5 Comments
The latest development in the David Beckham situation is a compromise that would allow Beckham to finish the season with AC Milan and return to MLS and the LA Galaxy for the balance of its season. The deal has been described as curious. But for those who do not follow MLS closely, there is much confusion [...]
