Mediation in Professional Sports Disputes

By Bob Wallace   The whole purpose of mediation is to reach an agreed upon resolution to a dispute. This is done primarily with the assistance of a neutral third party whose job is to bring the two (or more) conflicting parties to a compromise, but agreed upon, solution to the underlying dispute.   There are several paths parties can travel in arriving to an alternate dispute resolution destination. It can be through voluntary submission to a neutral mediator, like the NFL tried with t