If ever there was an NFL franchise with a storied and steamy history, it’s Oakland. Al Davis took black and silver and a bad-boy image to a new level. And since the Raiders are moving, what better place than to Las Vegas—sin city. The move leaves Oakland fans in a state of betrayal and those…
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(Editor’s Note: John Miller, Troy University, and Robin Ammon, University of South Dakota, recently wrote the following article for Concussion Litigation Reporter. It is exclusively reprinted here.) Many interscholastic athletes, particularly high school football players, are likely to incur concussions while participating in a sport (McCrea, Hammeke, Olsen, Leo, & Guskiewicz, 2004). Copeland (2010) further…
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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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(Editor”s note: In a recent article that appeared in Professional Sports and the Law, noted expert andUniversity of New Haven Professor Gil Fried, and Takao Ohashi, wrote an article about the baseball rule. What follows is an excerpt of that article) Most of those familiar with sport law, especially the liability side, know about the…
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Dr. Robin Ammon, Chair of the Division of Kinesiology and Sport Science at the University of South Dakota, has been following the crowd management space and what can be done when things get out of hand for decades. He was quoted last winter in “University of Houston Severs Ties with CSC After Fans Are ‘Punched’…
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By Scott A. Andresen, Andresen & Associates, P.C. It’s almost as ubiquitous as it is irritating that trips to the local sporting venue are sullied when a nearby spectator figuratively becomes a pain in the neck when exhibiting an alcohol-induced lack of manners and decorum. For one fan at last year’s May 23rd Chicago Blackhawks…
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