The sporting world, and much of the non-sporting world, eagerly awaited NBA Commissioner Adam Silver’s April 29 announcement regarding LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s punishment. Reaction to the announcement typically has been supportive of Silver’s disciplinary measures, and most folks…
The World Cup, held every four years at various sites around the globe, is the most watched sporting event in the world, a stage on which the top soccer players from 32 countries will showcase their considerable skills. For better…
We saw it time and again this past NFL season. A bang-bang play, a coach’s challenge to the resulting call by the officials, and a seemingly endless delay before a judgment was finally rendered. And we saw it recently at…
A recent ruling by the regional director of the National Labor Relations Board in Chicago that football players at Northwestern University are university employees is a jarring example, in my view, of the need for further movement in the NCAA…
The NCAA has a very narrow time frame within which men’s basketball players have to decide whether to withdraw their names from the NBA draft. This year, a young man with NCAA eligibility remaining who submits his name to the…
Even as NCAA March Madness prepares to consume America for the next few weeks, the foundation of amateurism on which the NCAA is based continues to be threatened. Please see this link for information on the most recent piece of…
The unfortunate reality of negative recruiting, the practice of a coach criticizing a rival rather than focusing on the merits of his or her own school, was something I dealt with on a continuing basis during my time as an…
I’ve been fascinated by the varied reactions to the recent announcement that the NFL Competition Committee soon will consider proposing to the NFL owners a rule that would impose a 15-yard penalty on a team whose player utters the N-word…
Pursuant to the National Football League’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with its players union, a football player becomes eligible to be drafted by the NFL three years after his high school class has graduated. For years, NFL and NCAA leaders…
Michael Sam: Will His Sexuality or His Ability Count More on NFL Draft Day? As most everyone who follows sports knows, University of Missouri college football player Michael Sam recently announced that he is gay, thus becoming the first openly…
