Coronavirus – Sports Law Expert

SRLA Publishes Safe at First, a Detailed Risk Management Guide for the Academic Community and Industry Professionals

October 31, 2024

The Sport and Recreation Law Association (SRLA), whose mission is to further the study and dissemination of information regarding legal aspects of sport and recreation, announced today that it has published Safe at First, making it available through its distribution partner, Hackney Publications, at https://pubs.hackneypublications.com/SRLA/subscribe.html “This is the most detailed risk management guide ever written…
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NFL Shows It Is intent on Protecting the Shield When It Fails to Investigate the Rest of the League for Fake Vaccination Cards

December 21, 2021

It’s all about protecting the shield. This was obvious to me in the 1980s when I began covering sports business for Financial World and it is even more obvious today. Case in point, examine the curious case of Tampa Bay Wide Receiver Antonio Brown. When the self-described personal chef, angered by the fact that he…
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NFL SUSPENDS THREE PLAYERS FOR VIOLATING NFL-NFLPA COVID-19 PROTOCOLS

December 2, 2021

The National Football League announced today discipline of three players for violating jointly developed and administered NFL-NFLPA COVID-19 protocols. Tampa Bay’s Antonio Brown and Mike Edwards have each been suspended without pay for the next three games. Free agent John Franklin III, if signed by a club, is also ineligible to play in the next…
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Sports Litigation Alert Reports on the Full Breadth of the Sports Law Industry with Timely, Insightful Articles in Last Two Issues

November 19, 2021

Beneficiaries of the Alert include both the private sector and higher education, where professors use the Alert with thousands of sports law students. As Hackney Publications closes in on the completion of its 18th year of publishing Sports Litigation Alert, publisher Holt Hackney is especially proud of the last two issues. “We’re touching on every…
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The Intersection of Collegiate Athletics and Vaccine Mandates Heating Up, Timely Webinar Set for October 27

October 20, 2021

Hundreds of colleges and universities across the country, both public and private, have issued mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies. Now with the fall semester in full swing students, faculty and staff (especially in athletics) have been challenging the mandates. Institutions find themselves facing litigation that challenges these policies. Well over 100 vaccine mandate lawsuits have been…
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With COVID-19 in Retreat, Tiger Stadium Lifts Protocols

October 9, 2021

With COVID-19 in full retreat, LSU announced it will lift its COVID-19 entrance protocols for football games in Tiger Stadium, beginning with the Tigers’ Oct. 16 game against Florida. In accordance with state and campus guidelines, all guests will still be required to wear masks in the indoor areas of the stadium. “The COVID-19 rates…
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More than 100 Sports Law Professors Now Use Sports Litigation Alert in the Classroom

August 9, 2021

Hackney Publications, the nation’s leading publisher of sports law periodicals, announced last month that new tools have been added to Sports Litigation Alert (Alert), a periodical that has been used in sports law classrooms for more than 15 years, which will make it even more useful for professors and their college students. Shortly thereafter, several…
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Tokyo 2021: the Games and the impact of COVID-19

July 17, 2021

By Louise Schwartzkoff, University of Sydney Faster, higher, stranger. Tokyo 2021 will be unusual in many ways. Sydney researchers discuss the COVID-19 Games, and why the Olympics (mostly) go on, even in the toughest of circumstances. The show that (almost always) goes on “What’s amazing is how often the Games go on, in the face…
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Foley & Lardner to Host Webinar – The Comeback: Sports in a Worldwide Pandemic – on June 9

June 4, 2021

Foley & Lardner’s Sports & Entertainment Group, along with sports industry author and adviser Rick Horrow, will host the fourth event in its Leadership Insight series – The Comeback: Sports in a Worldwide Pandemic – on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET Part 4 of the series will focus on brand and asset…
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Knicks to Welcome Another Sell-Out Crowd of 16,000 to Garden, But Don’t Forget to Wear a Mask If taking Public Transportation to the Game

May 28, 2021

The New York Knicks today announced that Game 5 of their 2021 NBA playoffs series against the Atlanta Hawks, scheduled for June 2, has sold out. This follows Game 1, when the Knicks welcomed more than 15,000 fans and Game 2. The two games mark the largest indoor crowds to gather in New York since…
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