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The Problem with the Red Sox-Dodgers Trade 29 Aug 2012 | 02:07 am
So my favorite team swapped my favorite player (and the team's best) to the Dodgers, along with two other solid players, for a handful of minor league players of various promise. Obviously, in terms o...
NBA at the Crossroads 14 Nov 2011 | 12:13 pm
The NBA and its players appear unable to reach an agreement on the terms and conditions of labor. A number of proposals have been rejected. From available reports, the primary difference appears to ce...
NFL Players Sell the Rookies Short 26 Jul 2011 | 04:49 pm
Although details remain undisclosed, it appears the new NFL/NFLPA collective bargaining agreement will contain a substantial limitation on the terms of rookie salaries, especially at the top of the dr...
Why The NBA Labor Fight Will Be A Doozy 30 Jun 2011 | 08:23 am
I enjoyed the chance the other day to speak with a magazine writer about the impending NBA lockout. Time permitting, I'm happy to oblige. In our conversation we reviewed the basic issues in the NBA la...
More on Online Poker 11 May 2011 | 05:32 am
Nobody's very happy about the indictments over online poker. I was a guest this morning on NPR's "On Point" program, hosted by Tom Ashbrook. I repeated the same themes about "state-by-state" regulatio...
Online Poker Will Come Again 28 Apr 2011 | 04:38 pm
Yesterday I did a podcast with Chad Millman of ESPN. You can listen to the conversation here. (It's also available on itunes.) We talked about the indictment of the officers of three of the major onli...
Why An NFL Lockout Makes Sense 21 Jan 2011 | 08:52 am
The coverage on the impending NFL labor battle sounds a single theme. The story goes something like this: that if only these greedy and dumb billionaires (the owners) and greedy and dumb millionaires ...
The Best of the Year 22 Dec 2010 | 01:47 pm
Here are some of my favorite things from the past year. I'll try to add a word or two of constructive criticism along with my praise, just in the hope of making these favorites even better the next ti...
Lucky Dominican Baseball Players 19 Dec 2010 | 05:28 pm
The sports law world is abuzz with the revelation that baseball super-agent Scott Boras provided very large loans to young baseball players in the Dominican Republic. It turns out other groups of Amer...
Legalization of Sports Betting, or Not? 18 Nov 2010 | 09:38 pm
I had the pleasure of participating in a podcast program with Chad Millman of ESPN. The podcast is here, if you want to listen or download. We talked about the current state of the law with respect to...
