Legal Aspects of Sports Blog

The Sports Law Blog has covered this issue in-depth over the course of the past year.  However, I just had a chance to read (and listen to) the Yale Law Journal Online piece by Aaron Zelinsky that treats the issue.  Highly recommended.  Very informative.  More history than I was aware.

My legal case brief (co-authored with Jon Wertheim) has been published in the latest issue of International Journal of Sport Communication. Another version is on SSRN here.

Nicholas Schmidle investigates the supply and demand of knockoff shoes in the NYT.  Very interesting!

Solid analysis by Mike McCann of Vermont Law School and Sports Illustrated.

Here is an update on Maurice Clarett, the plaintiff in the high-profile minimum age rule lawsuit from several years back.

A professional tennis player has been arrested for drug dealing (hat tip to Jon Wertheim).

I am in the middle of a move from Indiana University to Florida State University.  I will resume blogging when the fall semester starts (August 23). 

An odd twist in the lawsuit by retired NFL players against their labor union.

Jonathon Abrams of the New York Times profiles Rich Cho (Blazers) and Lon Babby (Suns).  Good hires by both teams.

Another good article about age in tennis.