The vast majority of all organized sports, girls or boys, are conduits for teaching teamwork, discipline, goal setting, and responsibility. They start, as examples, at the T-ball and Peewee football levels and continue through middle school, high school, and college. The benefits of character-building cannot be over-emphasized. Many an athlete will testify to sports essentially…
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Members of the National Trial Lawyers Group have singled out attorney Mark Lanier as its Trial Lawyer of the Year, while recognizing the Lanier Law Firm among the Top 25 most influential litigation firms in the United States. Lanier accepted both awards at The National Trial Lawyers’ February 2017 Trial Lawyers Summit in South Beach,…
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Pepperdine University School of Law Professor Maureen Weston has seen first-hand what a great sports law program looks like. After all, she is a long-time representative on the Board of Advisors at the National Sports Law Institute at Marquette University, one of the nation’s premier programs. So when all the right pieces fell into place,…
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The Sports and Recreation Law Association (SRLA) has announced several award winners from its recent annual conference, which was held March 2-4 in Las Vegas. The Betty van der Smissen Leadership Award was presented to Steve McKelvey, Associate Department Chair for External Relations & Associate Professor Sport Management in the Isenberg School of Management at…
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Your team’s hot, so you get this idea. Why not go to CafePress and sell the teams logo-ed tees and hats. Capitalize on the moment, right? Who doesn’t want to make a quick buck? Really, really bad idea. Take last year’s Cubbie’s success in the playoffs, leading to a World Series Championship. Rogue vendors came…
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(What follows is an excerpt from a piece written by Bill Robers of Sparks Willson Borges Brandt & Johnson, P.C.) Sunny Golloway, former head baseball coach at Auburn University (Auburn), has sued the university’s Board of Trustees and a number of athletics department personnel for breach of contract and other claims related to his firing…
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