Oct
17
Marquette Law School’s Enduring Connection to the Sports Law Industry
Posted by: J. Gordon Hylton | October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment
As noted in an earlier post, the current issue of Marquette Lawyer magazine contains a profile of the current Marquette Sports Law program and the National Sports Law Institute. What the article fails to note, however, it that the law school’s involvement with the sports industry long pre-dates the founding of the National Sports Law [...]
Oct
10
Do We Need an Anti-Siphoning Act in the United States?
Posted by: J. Gordon Hylton | October 10, 2011 | 1 Comment
The remarkable Milwaukee Brewers have now reached the second round of the Major League Baseball play-offs, but many Brewers fans have yet to have the opportunity to stay at home and watch the team play post-season games on television. The reason, of course, is that this year all first round play-off games as well as [...]
Oct
9
Al Davis, R.I.P.
Posted by: J. Gordon Hylton | October 9, 2011 | 1 Comment
The late Al Davis, the mercurial owner and general manager of the Oakland Raiders football team, arguably had a greater impact on American sports law than any member of his generation. Davis reached the pinnacle of American sport even though he possessed neither great athletic ability nor access to financial resources. Born in Brocton, Massachusetts, [...]
Sep
2
Ambivalent Angst Over College Football’s De Jure Inequality
Posted by: Ryan Scoville | September 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Like many, I am profoundly excited for tomorrow—the first Saturday of college football season. I’m excited to watch my favorite team and daydream about the possibility of a BCS bowl game, to trash-talk with other fans, to order stadium food when I make it out to games, and to order pizza when I watch from [...]
Aug
23
Baseball Hall of Fame Dedicates Selig Center for Archives of MLB Commissioners
Posted by: Matthew J. Mitten | August 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment
On August 17th, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, dedicated the Allan H. “Bud” Selig Center for the Archives of Major League Baseball Commissioners. Commissioner Selig is a member of the Law School’s adjunct faculty, holding the title of Distinguished Lecturer in Sports Law and Policy; he and I [...]
Aug
18
The Dodgers Debacle
Posted by: Eryn Doherty | August 18, 2011 | 2 Comments
Straight out of Hollywood, in what has turned into a long-running soap opera, is Major League Baseball’s own “War of the Roses.” MLB’s version, featuring the divorce of the Los Angeles Dodgers owners Frank and Jamie McCourt, is being played out in court venues across three states and in a sundry of court proceedings and [...]
Jul
11
Was There Really a Professional Baseball Team Called the Confederate Yankees?
Posted by: J. Gordon Hylton | July 11, 2011 | 6 Comments
In the history of American sports team names, few names can match the bizarre quality of the Columbus, Georgia “Confederate Yankees” who played in the AA Southern League from 1964 to 1966. The image of future black major leaguer star Roy White wearing a Confederate flag patch on his minor league uniform sleeve is jarring, [...]
Jun
21
How to Hold Onto Your Sports Franchise
Posted by: Michael M. O'Hear | June 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment
The Oklahoma City Thunder had a nice run in the recently concluded NBA playoffs, but it was nothing compared to their run from Seattle. The story of the escape of the former SuperSonics from Seattle is the central case study in a new paper on the retention of major league franchises by Paul Anderson and William [...]
May
29
Walter Kowalski: A Forgotten Man in the Legal History of Sport
Posted by: J. Gordon Hylton | May 29, 2011 | 6 Comments
On May 22, Walter Joseph Kowalski of Red Hook, New York passed away at age 88. Few in the world of sports or sports law noted his death. Those who did note his death felt compelled to explain that the he was Walter Kowalski, the minor league baseball player who once sued Organized Baseball and [...]
Apr
17
The Marquette Law School Graduate Who Coached in the NBA Finals
Posted by: J. Gordon Hylton | April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Several former Marquette University law students achieved fame on the athletic playing fields after their time at Marquette—world class sprinter Ralph Metcalfe and Packer star Laavie Dilweg come immediately to mind—but only one former student ever coached a team to the championship finals of the nation’s leading professional basketball league. Francis “Frank” Zummach was born [...]
Apr
1
Why Barry Bonds Must Be Convicted
Posted by: J. Gordon Hylton | April 1, 2011 | 4 Comments
Last week, noted sportswriter Sally Jenkins used her Washington Post column to ask why the United States government was devoting so many resources to the prosecution of baseball star Barry Bonds. Why, she asks, with so many problems in the country, are we expending so much effort trying to convict the all-time home run leader [...]
Jan
31
Our Boys: Statewide Loyalty to Wisconsin’s Sports Teams
Posted by: Alan J. Borsuk | January 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment
They may be called the Green Bay Packers and the Milwaukee Brewers, but the degree to which major sports teams in Wisconsin are embraced by fans everywhere else in the state is not common in the sports world. These are “our teams” even if they play 100 or 200 miles away. That’s on exhibit for [...]
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