The Future of Virtual Reality in Sports with Bob Tetiva, Founder & CEO, Sense Arena
NHL's Lawyer: Lockouts Are 'Necessary' Weapons
Welcome to McCarter’s Playing Field: Sports Law Notes, where you’ll find the latest in sports law, notes about our practice, and important updates for athletes, teams, institutions, facilities, investors, and others in the...more
Kansas State baseball player Cary Arbolida became the latest former JUCO athlete to file a lawsuit against the NCAA. He played three years of JUCO ball – including the COVID-impacted 2020 campaign – before spending the last...more
We continue to observe the growth of professional sports as an asset class, with private capital having transformed team investments in recent years from trophy assets to opportunities for significant growth....more
In Rogers Media Inc et al v John Doe 1 et al, 2024 FC 1082, the Federal Court (Canada) (the Court) issued the first site-blocking judgment allowing the applicants to simultaneously protect live content in multiple sports...more
Though the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs are in full swing, a lot of off-ice activity is happening as a result of the sale of the Arizona Coyotes to Utah Jazz owners Ryan and Ashley Smith’s Smith Entertainment Group. Most hockey...more
With 2024 underway, our team highlights 10 of the most pressing legal issues facing the media and entertainment industry this year. In 2024, media and entertainment businesses will focus on whether the longstanding tenet...more
Dartmouth College must bargain with its men’s basketball team after the National Labor Relations Board certified the players’ recent landmark vote to unionize with the Service Employees International Union on Thursday, but a...more
On January 10, 2024, the Commonwealth Court held in NHL Players Ass’n v. City of Pittsburgh, (No. 1150 C.D. 2022) that the City of Pittsburgh’s Facility Tax — a unique tax on nonresidents who use a sports stadium or arena...more
In this episode of “Lawyers With Game,” hosts Darius Gambino and Brian Landry from Saul Ewing’s Video Gaming & Esports Practice talk to Bob Tetiva, Founder and CEO of Sense Arena, a virtual reality training platform for elite...more
Employees have a right to privacy. Mike Babcock is one of the most successful coaches in the National Hockey League. He has won 700 games with three different teams and led the Detroit Red Wings to the Stanley Cup in the...more
Private equity firms, financial sponsors, and sovereign wealth funds continue to invest in global sports organizations. Financial sponsor–led investments were more prevalent at the beginning of the century in Europe and...more
A subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., Diamond Sports Group, LLC (“Diamond”) (branded as Bally Sports) which operates 19 regional sports networks that televise MLB, NHL and NBA games is inching towards bankruptcy. On...more
Although not yet officially announced, Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh is expected to leave the Biden Administration soon, to become the Executive Director of the National Hockey League (NHL) Players Association. Secretary...more
California joined the ranks of statutory pay transparency when Governor Newsom signed a bill into law that requires California employers (of 15 or more) to publicize the pay scale for any advertised positions. The new law,...more
Where’s the line between permissible NIL deal and impermissible “pay for play” when it comes to professional teams offering NIL deals? Name, image, and likeness (NIL) agreements between collegiate student-athletes and...more
Welcome to Three Point Shot, a newsletter brought to you by the Sports Law Group at Proskauer. Three Point Shot brings you the latest in sports law-related news and provides you with links to related materials. In this double...more
On March 10, Major League Baseball (MLB) and the MLB Players Association agreed to terms on a new collective bargaining agreement, ending a 99-day lockout that was the first official MLB work stoppage since 1994. As part of...more
Welcome to our third volume of Unprecedented. While we would like to retire this publication because COVID-19 has been eradicated and all litigation has withered away, we all know that is not the case. If anything, COVID-19...more
Inaction in Face of Sexual Assault Allegation- A 20-year-old player in the Chicago Blackhawks organization, Kyle Beach, filed a lawsuit against the team in May 2021 alleging he was sexually assaulted by the team’s video...more
On this episode of Talking Sports Law, co-hosts John Wilson and Trevor Gates head “north of the border” to speak with Chris Gear (Chief Legal Officer and Assistant General Manager) and Chris Beardsmore (Vice President and...more
Athletes and entertainers are people, too. Albeit, incredibly talented people, but deserving of the same treatment with dignity and respect as how we would want ourselves to be treated. For better or worse, sometimes their...more
Hope is in the air (not to mention copious amounts of tree pollen) here in New York – and that’s to say nothing of the Knicks’ hardwood resurgence, the Giants’ highly-acclaimed moves in last week’s NFL Draft and the Yankees’...more
First and foremost (and not to detract from Sir Anthony Hopkins—lest I incur the wrath of Hannibal Lecter himself), the late Chadwick Boseman should have won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in “Ma Rainey’s Black...more
Anyone paying attention to the sports world in the past several years is well aware of the spotlight focused on concussions and head trauma. Much of the attention has come from high-profile, class-action lawsuits against...more