Legal Commentary

College Football Bowl Season
College football may have the best regular season of any sport, but the worst post-season imaginable. The bowl system is...

Let's Hear It for the Owls
As the college bowl season kicks off, we will be subjected to endless discussion about how the BCS has failed to live it up to its purpose and how college football powers that be are depriving the fans of their God given right to see a national championship won on the field in a championship playoff run by the NCAA just like all those other sports nobody watches...

The Quad reviews UT and LSU
The Quad -- the NY Times' excellent college sports blog that has been the subject of these previous posts -- continues its excellent review of each of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision ("FBS") football programs by profiling...

Perjury in Congressional Hearings on College Bowl System and the BCS
Congress conducted hearings on the college bowl system earlier this month. Now, reporters have raised questions regarding whether bowl defenders committed perjury or acted in contempt of Congress in claiming that most bowl games are organized by charitable groups and that tens of millions of dollars earned by the bowls go to charity...

College Football Season is almost here, make sure you are prepared...
I like most men from the South, really like College football. Ok, I love college football. Growing up in the South, it is tradition to attend tailgates at college towns like Tuscaloosa, Athens, Auburn, and my personal favorite, Oxford, Mississippi...

College Football Still a Ratings Boananza
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Bowl vs. Playoff
As I am not yet ready to comment on the Mumbai tragedy, I will stick to the lighter fare of college football.  The debate rages between opposing camps, those who favor a single national championship bowl game and those who favor a playoff to determine college football’s national champion...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY:GARO YEPREMIAN - NFL FOOTBALL PLAYER
It's Super Bowl Sunday and a day of dread for me. You see, I grew up in Miami and from the age of four until I left for college, I went with my dad to almost every Miami Dolphins game...

Beware of phony football tickets
With college football?s bowl season kicking off this week and more than 1 million fans searching for tickets, con artists are banking on the frenzy ...

We're Number 119! More on Duke Football
It?s time for the latest update on Duke football. Back in June, Mark wrote about Duke?s victory in court over Louisville. Here?s a quick recap: Duke and Louisville agreed to play each other in 2002, 2007, 2008, and 2009...

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
TEA-21 - Plus Law 105-178

NCAA
Men's Basketball, Football Players Settle Class Action for $228 Million

NCAA and Ticketmaster
alleging they have a monopoly on college sports events and charge non-refundable fees to enter a lottery for the rights to purchase tickets to the sporting events.

Football-Related Dementia and Workers' Compensation
Football-Related Dementia Is the NFL Liable?

Nielsen Media Challenged
TV ratings company to pay undisclosed settlement in antitrust lawsuit.

International Game Technology
401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Division of Immigration Health Services
allegedly drugged deported immigrants with sedatives.