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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955373603321

Autore

Weiler Paul C

Titolo

Leveling the playing field : how the law can make sports better for fans / / Paul C. Weiler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2000

ISBN

9780674045026

0674045025

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 367 pages ) : illustrations

Disciplina

344.73099

Soggetti

Sports - Law and legislation - United States

Sports - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue: Sports on Trial PART 1: THE INTEGRITY OF SPORTS 1. Misconduct on the Field 2. Honoring Civil Rights in Sports 3. The Deadliest Sin in Sports 4. The Sports War on Drugs 5. Athletes as Role Models 6. The Moral Ideal for American Sports PART 2: OWNERS VERSUS PLAYERS 7. Show Us the Money 8. Sports Joins the Union 9. Opening the Flood -Gates 10. What Antitrust Did for Players 11. How to Level the Player Field 12. Salary Sharing among Players PART 3: OWNERS VERSUS OWNERS--AND FANS/B 13. The Brave New World of Franchise Free Agency 14. How Far Have We Traveled? 15. What the Law Should Do with Raiders 16. Stadium Socialism or a Stadium Cap? 17. Sports in Intellectual Space 18. What Should Leagues Be Like? 19. Expand or Break Up the Big Leagues? 20. A Better World for Fans Epilogue: A Performance--Enhancing Law for Sports Acknowledgments Index

Sommario/riassunto

The world of sports seems entwined with lawsuits. This is so, because of two characteristics: sporting contests lose their drama if the competition becomes too lopsided, and the winning athletes and teams usually take the lion's share of attention.