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Justice Sonia Sotomayor And The Relationship Between Leagues And Players: Insights And Implications, Michael Mccann
Justice Sonia Sotomayor And The Relationship Between Leagues And Players: Insights And Implications, Michael Mccann
Law Faculty Scholarship
This Essay examines U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s important role in shaping U.S. sports law. As a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and later on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Sotomayor authored opinions that resolved two major sports law disputes: whether Major League Baseball (“MLB”) owners could unilaterally impose new labor conditions on MLB players during the 1994 baseball strike and whether Ohio State University sophomore Maurice Clarett was obligated to wait three years from the completion of high school to become eligible for the National Football …
Illegal Defense: The Irrational Economics Of Banning High School Players From The Nba Draft, Michael Mccann
Illegal Defense: The Irrational Economics Of Banning High School Players From The Nba Draft, Michael Mccann
Law Faculty Scholarship
Each year, the National Basketball Association (NBA) conducts its annual entry draft (NBA Draft), which is the exclusive process by which premiere amateur players gain entrance into the NBA. To the dismay of many commentators, a number of drafted players will have just completed their senior year of high school. Routinely, these players are dismissed as immature, unprepared, and ill-advised, even though most will sign guaranteed, multi-million dollar contracts before their college educations would have begun. In stark contrast to popular myth, this Article finds that players drafted straight out of high school are not only likely to do well …