Sport Law Professor Gil Fried Joins University of West Florida Faculty

The University of West Florida (UWF, Pensacola, FL) has announced that Gil Fried has joined the faculty in the College of Education and Professional Studies (CEPS), starting in the fall 2021 semester.  Professor Fried will not just teach sport management courses,...

Sports Lawyer Reed-Francois Named as Mizzou’s Director of Athletics

The University of Missouri has announced that Desiree Reed-Francois, athletics director at UNLV, has been named as Director of Intercollegiate Athletics for the university. Reed-Francois has more than 25 years of experience in intercollegiate athletics and was the...

Preemption Saves NHL from Head Trauma Claims

By Tony Corleto, of Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP  (The following appeared in Concussion Defense Reporter, a publication produced by Hackney Publications.) What is federal preemption?  In the legal world, federal preemption is a doctrine based on the...

Exertional Rhabdomyolysis – a Legal Analysis

By JoAnn M. Eickhoff-Shemek, PhD, FACSM This article is an excerpt from the new, ground-breaking textbook — Law for Fitness Managers and Exercise Professionals by JoAnn M. Eickhoff-Shemek, PhD, Barbara J. Zabawa, JD, MPH, and Paul R. Fenaroli, JD. This excerpt,...

DNA Sports Performance Lab and MLB: The Story Continues

By Jeff Birren, Senior Writer These pages have chronicled the never-ending dispute between Major League Baseball and DNA Sports Performance Lab, Inc., and its owner, Neiman Nix.  DNA Sports makes a substance that that contains the banned substance IGH-1. One...