Foreword | |
Preface | |
Acknowledgments | |
Contributors | |
Sports Law: Liability and Legislation | p. 1 |
Tortious Impact | p. 3 |
In Jeopardy: Football Helmet Manufacturers and Wearers | p. 8 |
Negligence and Liability: A Coach's Nightmare | p. 11 |
The Coach's Legal Duty to Properly Instruct and to Warn Athletes of the Inherent Dangers in Sport | p. 14 |
Injustice Uncovered? Worker's Compensation and the Professional Athlete | p. 18 |
Fans Strike Out with Foul Ball Litigation | p. 24 |
The Application of the Attractive Nuisance Doctrine to Sport | p. 28 |
Not the Same Game | p. 32 |
Sports versus the Sabbath: Professional Baseball and Blue Laws | p. 36 |
Amateurs, Professionals, and Eligibility for Americans in the Olympics | p. 40 |
Fading in the Stretch: Live Horse Racing in the 1990s | p. 48 |
Sports Law: The Regulation of Organized Sports | p. 53 |
The NCAA and the Courts: College Football on Television | p. 56 |
Books and Bulldogs: Athletes and Academic Standards Abuses | p. 63 |
Switzer, a Sooner Scofflaw? | p. 67 |
The Win at Any Price Syndrome: Steroids in Athletics | p. 71 |
To Play or Not to Play: Substance Abuse Policies of Three Major Sports Leagues | p. 78 |
Two All-Pros Collide with the Football Commissioner | p. 85 |
Commissioner Kuhn Victorious over Owner Finley | p. 88 |
George Steinbrenner's Bronx Zoo | p. 92 |
In the Groove? The Legal War over Golf Clubs | p. 97 |
Baseball's Big Inning: The Sacrifice of the 1919 Black Sox | p. 111 |
Beating the Spread: College Basketball Point Shaving | p. 121 |
Jack Molinas: A Basketball Player with Great but Unclean Hands | p. 125 |
Fast Balls and Fast Bucks Don't Mix | p. 129 |
A Gridiron Hero Self-Destructs | p. 133 |
Charlie the Hustler and the Hall of Saints | p. 137 |
Fantasy Sports and the Law | p. 143 |
Sports Law: The Rights of Players and Owners | p. 147 |
When a Professional Sport Is Not a Business: Baseball's Infamous Antitrust Exemption | p. 149 |
Let the Bidding Begin: Free Agency Comes to Baseball | p. 166 |
Baseball Owners Called "Out" for Collusion | p. 176 |
Joe Kapp's Fight for Free Agency | p. 184 |
Tight End Mackey Blocks Commissioner Rozelle | p. 187 |
"These People Just Plain Don't Like Each Other" | p. 190 |
Oscar Robertson: The Player and the Case | p. 195 |
The Letter of Intent and Collegiate Athletes | p. 198 |
Agents, Athletes, and Academics | p. 201 |
Minnesota Gopher Basketball: Problems on the Court and in the Courts | p. 205 |
Sports Broadcasting: Who Owns the Property Rights? | p. 215 |
The Land of the Free Disputes Homes for the Braves | p. 221 |
Fear, Attack, and Pressure: The Relocation of the Raiders | p. 224 |
Colts Gallop to Indianapolis | p. 233 |
The NFL-AFL Merger: Law, Politics, and the Power of Money | p. 237 |
Sports Law: Racial and Gender Discrimination | p. 245 |
Wyoming's "Black Fourteen" | p. 247 |
White Ball/Black Ball | p. 251 |
The Stone Left Unturned: Marge Schott's "Suspension" | p. 255 |
The Quest for Gender Equality: Setbacks and Strides | p. 260 |
Let's Play, Too: Sex Discrimination in Intercollegiate Athletics | p. 268 |
Little League Baseball: Where Are the Girls? | p. 280 |
Barely There: Female Reporters in Male Locker Rooms | p. 283 |
Major League Baseball Called for Balk! | p. 288 |
Index of Cases | p. 293 |
Index of Names and Subjects | p. 297 |
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