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Every sport has a set of rules, but there are also rules that govern sports in general. From antitrust law to labor issues to criminal justice, the law is a major behind-the-scenes player in the world of sport. For some, the legal aspects of the sporting world hold more fascination that what actually happens on the field of play. For those dedicated legal gamers, FindLaw’s Sports News is the leading source of timely information about developments in sports law, with breaking legal news, expert attorney analysis and interesting stories from a number of excellent sources.

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  1. At the moment, there are only three CAS arbitrators in this region. We will help train more through seminars and sports law conferences ... We can bring arbitrators in from other parts of the world.
    SOURCE: Gulfnews 2 days ago
  2. I am thrilled to join Jackson Lewis and return to the full-time practice of law in Boston ... I am looking forward to contributing to the firm’s already impressive national sports law practice. The changing economics of professional sports along with ever shifting collegiate sports guidelines create an ...
    – Paul Kelly (fighter) SOURCE: Business Wire 2 weeks ago
  3. Former University of Memphis basketball player Jeremy Hunt was arrested early Saturday and charged with domestic assault. Hunt, was accused of choking his girlfriend, Tayana McVea, in the Woodchase Apartments.
    SOURCE: Memphis Commercial Appeal 2 weeks ago
  4. Absolutely not. All sorts of incidents happen. Doping incidents do occur in the Olympics. Brawls take place regularly in European league football matches but yet they continue to be extremely popular
    SOURCE: OneIndia 4 days ago
  5. The current advertising rate for a high profile cricket series is about Rs 3.5 lakhs per second, not even remotely comparable with the Rs 10,000 per second charged for a tennis, football or gold event
    SOURCE: Business Standard 1 hour ago
  6. With the world anti-doping agency and Interpol and law enforcement in other countries, we are trying to come up with a program to help assure people that sponsor cycling
    SOURCE: International Herald Tribune 3 weeks ago
  7. I like the coach. I know he got fired but I like the assistant [who they hired to replace Coach Greenberg]. I like how they let their guards play. They just let them loose and play a lot of transition ball.
    SOURCE: Baltimore Sun 6 days ago
  8. I like the coach. I know he got fired but I like the assistant [who they hired to replace Coach Greenberg]. I like how they let their guards play. They just let them loose and play a lot of transition ball.
    SOURCE: Baltimore Sun 1 week ago
  9. 28 free throws to five. I don’t watch rigged NBA games, I’m switching to hockey.
    SOURCE: Hoops Addict 3 weeks ago
  10. Football play a key role in the public integration and prevents young boys from taking up arms, drug abuse or falling into other kinds of crimes
    SOURCE: News Blaze 3 weeks ago
  11. I think the anti-doping we have in tennis is really strict
    SOURCE: SB Nation 1 week ago
  12. Nuno is accused of beating the victim with his fists and Lobos is accused of beating the victim with a baseball bat while Hernandez stabbed the victim's neck with a knife
    SOURCE: SGVTribune.com 4 days ago
  13. We have begun production on many different designs of Nokia Lumia 710 custom painted covers such as St Georges Flag, Union Jack, Blue Union Jack for London Olympics 2012 and many more
    SOURCE: Softpedia 2 days ago
  14. Dammit, I wish this school's soccer field was subject to less regulation! It could really use a damn oil well over there
    SOURCE: Daily Kos 21 hours ago
  15. I am pleased to announce we have hired Rick Duckett and Sheldon Everett to the Miami Basketball staff
    SOURCE: Local 12 WKRC-TV Cincinnati 11 hours ago
  16. CIR is a regular part of the USADA testing program for all athletes under USADA’s jurisdiction, as well as a routine part of the anti-doping programs conducted by USADA in the sport of professional boxing
    SOURCE: ESPN 1 week ago
  17. I am sure the European Boxing Union is on the verge of a strong position against Luxembourg; I am also furious with the promoter who is trying to blast the ethics, honesty and seriousness of the sport of boxing
    SOURCE: Boxing Socialist 5 days ago
  18. Qingdao changed its coach after one game, but they are last now it doesn't help. When you have a foreign coach, let him work. You hired a foreign coach because you want a change - so don't go back
    SOURCE: China Daily 6 days ago
  19. Photoperiodic regulation of the seasonal pattern of photosynthetic capacity and the implications for carbon cycling.
    SOURCE: PhysOrg.com 1 week ago
  20. were likely to be an opinion -- a biased, passionate, and defensive point of view of a basketball coach -- rather than objective fact. Thus, plaintiff's defamation claim against Boeheim fails as a matter of law.
    SOURCE: CNN 1 week ago
  21. I think it's the commitment factor that both schools are putting into their programs now ... Union really made the jump when they hired Coach Wehrum. He's a Hall of Fame coach. So you have two great programs now.
    SOURCE: Albany Times-Union 1 month ago
  22. The British Boxing Board of Control has made its position clear to the Luxembourg Boxing Federation, the European Boxing Union and World Sanctioning Organisations and has already received strong support for its stance
    SOURCE: Reuters Africa 1 week ago
  23. I do not want to wait for political surprises and that is why I am determined to hold a series of marathon committee sessions to complete the legislation before the summer recess
    SOURCE: Haaretz 6 days ago
  24. The British Boxing Board of Control has made its position clear to the Luxembourg Boxing Federation, the European Boxing Union and World Sanctioning Organisations and has already received strong support for its stance
    SOURCE: TVNZ 1 week ago
  25. What fired us up more than anything was when we came out of the locker room and found all those former Bearkat football players forming a human tunnel to welcome us onto the Reliant Stadium field ... Wow, that was so exciting.
    SOURCE: Sam Houston State Bearkats Athletics 1 day ago
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