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EntertainHR: Caitlin Clark Fever and the Gender Wage Gap

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As a proud South Carolinian, I was delighted to watch the undefeated Gamecocks women’s basketball team take home another NCAA Championship this year. Being the parent of a budding female athlete (when my daughter isn’t busy...more

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Malpractice case shows limits of MLB arbitration clause

Parents of ball player will get their day in court. Ryan Costello was a promising young baseball player. After being drafted in the 31st round of the 2017 Major League Baseball Draft by the Seattle Mariners, and later...more

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What Clubs & Leagues Need to Know About Paying Professional Athletes Overtime

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A common misconception is that individuals paid on a salary basis are not entitled to overtime. Another common miscommunication is that if an employee earns a high salary, then that exempts them from earning overtime. Both of...more

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Ex-player’s “slip and fall” case against NFL, Chargers is preempted, court rules

The CBA controls. EDITOR’S NOTE: A version of this post was previously published as an article in Hackney Publications’ Sports Litigation Alert. A federal court in California has granted a motion by the National...more

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Parental Leave in Sports: Where Does the Club Fit In?

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With the seismic growth of professional women’s sports leagues, specifically soccer, it is crucial for clubs to ensure they remain just as focused on employment laws and human resources as they do winning. This is the...more

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Monetizing Sports Data and Protecting Athlete Privacy: Where is the Balance?

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The collection of personal data by organizations in the sports industry creates unique data privacy challenges. Generally, a business-to-consumer organization is focused on the personal data of its customers and separately...more

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Unionization of minor league baseball presents interesting issues

The game has changed. On August 29, the Major League Baseball Players Association, the union representing players in Major League Baseball, announced that it was assisting players in Minor League Baseball in seeking to...more

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Women’s professional sports leagues take different approaches to transgender inclusion

The leagues are not necessarily of one mind. The participation of transgender and non-binary individuals in competitive sports is a controversial topic. Sports organizations at various levels have struggled to balance...more

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Trailblazing Labor Contracts End U.S. Women’s Soccer Players’ Equal Pay Lawsuit

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The U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF), the governing body for international soccer in the United States, and the unions representing the women’s and men’s national soccer teams, U.S. Women’s National Team Players Association, and...more

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2 Key Employers Takeaways from Professional Sport’s Continued Adoption of Crypto and Blockchain Technology

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As cryptocurrency and blockchain technology continue their way into the mainstream, one key industry that stands out for its adoption of blockchain technology is professional sports. Professional leagues and teams have been...more

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Batter Up! An Employer’s Winners-and-Losers Guide to the End of Baseball’s Lockout

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We were off by about 10 days. When we published An Employer’s Guide to the Baseball Lockout: Answering Your Questions About the First MLB Work Stoppage in Almost 30 Years way back at the beginning of December, we predicted...more

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Will there be baseball in 2022? An update on the MLB lockout.

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In one of the largest developments in professional sports in years, the 2022 baseball season is in jeopardy because of the Major League Baseball Lockout: team owners and players have not been able to agree on a new collective...more

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An Employer’s Guide to the Baseball Lockout: Answering Your Questions About the First MLB Work Stoppage in Almost 30 Years

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For the first time since the 1994-1995 seasons, Major League Baseball has entered a work stoppage – and you have questions. What led to this point? What is a lockout versus a strike? What are the two sides fighting over? And...more

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There is a Price for Athlete Data

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On August 4, 2011, the NFLPA and the NFL entered into a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) that would control the NFL’s fate for a decade. At the time, many outsiders focused on the agreement’s novel rules for rookie...more

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This Week at the Ninth: Sports, Drugs, and Pensions

This week, we take a look at two Ninth Circuit decisions concerning the employer-employee relationship.  In the first, the Court let the lawsuit against the NFL for its negligent handling of drug distribution to its injured...more

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COVID-19 Has Created Some Challenging Labor Issues for Professional Sports Leagues

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Professional sports leagues and their stakeholders are facing numerous challenges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Hockey League (NHL) was nearly finished with its regular season when it shut down. Major...more

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Putting a Price Tag on Allegiance: NBA CBA's "Supermax" is Super Unpredictable

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Imagine $221 million in cash just sitting on a table. That incredible sum is the amount of the "supermax" deal the NBA's San Antonio Spurs offered their superstar wing Kawhi Leonard during his restricted free agency summer of...more

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Withholding Evidence In sports Labor dsputes: What eSports can learn from Brady and Elliot? - Questions of Fundamental Fairness...

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For the uninitiated, eSports, is a professional sports league connected to video games, and is one of the fastest growing sports markets. While some chuckle at the growth of eSports, others are taking notice of the industry's...more

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Who Says There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch? -- the US Tax Court in Jacobs v. Commissioner Ruled That There May Be Such a...

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Judge Ruwe ruled in Jeremy M. Jacobs and Margaret J. Jacobs v. Commissioner, 148 T.C. 24 (June 26, 2017), that a free lunch may exist today under Federal tax law. In this case, the taxpayers, owners of the Boston Bruins of...more

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Baseball purists

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This post may not be the usual finger-wagging scold you may have come to expect from an employment lawyer. I’m confident, though, that this blog’s audience of fellow practitioners and human resource professionals will take a...more

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Three Point Shot - November 2016

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Who's First in Ownership of the "Sweet Spot" Remains Unclear - Baseball is often called a "game of inches," whether one is describing the strike zone, a close play at the plate, or a liner past third base that just kicks...more

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