Well, it’s the day after Thanksgiving and everyone except me and a few other Turkey haters are eating leftover dry stringy bird remnants. I had porterhouse steak yesterday, (***insert Caddyshack reference***: “Oh! Porterhouse!”) as usual, and watched everyone else fall asleep due to tryptophan or whatever it’s called. So it’s time...
The U.S. Senate has asked the NFL commissioner to make more game-day broadcasts available to local fans at no cost on broadcast television. From the article in the Sports Business Journal: “The league already provides free broadcasts in the home cities of competing teams, but in a letter to Commissioner, Roger Goodell, 13 members of the Senate said that the NFL...
Good thing the guys at the daily News are so diligent exposing steroid cheats and clamoring for better testing. Nate Vinton has this article about how MLB is still dragging their feet while trying to make it seem to Congress that they are doing the minimum necessary to NOT trigger more hearings. From the article: Nearly a year has passed since the Mitchell Report...
As soon as I get the decision, I’ll analyze and post, but this sounds downright asinine to me. A Westchester state court Judge ruled that Winged Foot must close their par-3 sixth hole because the house of the man who lives right of the green gets hit by too many golf balls now that the club removed three trees. On another note, I’m making soem edits to...
As a lawyer, I’ll be doing my own research over the weekend. Until then here’s what Steve Czaban, Ron Sirak, Alan Shipnuck, and David Whitley had to say. Before anyone rushes off to condemn Bivens and the LPGA in a fit of knee-jerk political correctness, there are solid business reasons behind the decision and they are giving time and opportunity to the...
Here’s the article. It’s no less than he deserves. Floyd Landis, steroid cheat, has run out of courts in which to continue to harass, annoy, and spread false witness about the anti-doping establishment. From the article: “In the end, the panel saved its harshest criticism for Landis, who it said essentially tried to muddle the evidence and...
In my many dealings with the Chinese government as a lawyer, I have heard the catchphrase “diplomatic immunity” used as a shield to avoid everything from paying for intellectual property rights to getting ordinary E&O insurance to cover an event. The Chinese Government doesn’t negotiate like we do, they bully, scream, cajole, caper, and...
According to an AP report, Congress will take another look at drugs in sports next week, with a hearing that will feature top names from all four major professional leagues, the NCAA and the U.S. Olympic Committee. A House subcommittee, working separately from the committee that held last week’s hearing featuring Roger Clemens, is holding a hearing Wednesday on...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Like a lyric out of Pink Floyd’s The Wall, Roger Clemens went skating on the thin ice of modern life today, dragging behind him the silent reproach of a million disdained eyes. Of course, cracks in the ice appeared under his feet and he was left to claw helplessly as the last support disintegrated beneath him. We watched transfixed...
Filing that lawsuit may be the worst decision of Roger Clemens’s life. It was bad enough he tried to bully and intimidate a government witness, (not to mention run him out of money in a massive lawsuit), but when he alleged governmental misconduct, that made both sides of the aisle stand up and take notice. Congress is now demanding not only the tapes of BOTH...
I’ll make this short and sweet. Clemens filed suit against MacNamee for defamation this morning. He has simultaneously created an out from the thorny problem of dealing with the Congressional grilling. “Sorry, sir..but I have a lawsuit going and that’s the proper time and proper manner.” We were having this discussion somewhere else, so...
In a nutshell: we have a huge problem, everybody’s guilty for not doing something earlier but oh, hey, just give them a slap on the wrist.
Remember who paid this $20 million bill…MLB.
You know what? Clemency to these crimes is just as reprehensible and scandalous as the cheating itself.
Well, it’s the day after Thanksgiving and everyone except me and a few other Turkey haters are eating leftover dry stringy bird remnants. I had steak and pasta yesterday, as usual, and watched everyone else fall asleep due to tryptophan or whatever it’s called. So it’s time to give out the Dry, Stringy Turkey of the Year Award. This time it goes to...
This year we have a tie for the best sports article of the year. The spectre of steroids burned like a proprietary torch everywhere in the sports world this year, even golf, where the PGA and LPGA TOURS enacted testing policies. Finally, we will never have to hear the drivel of “steroids can’t help your golf game” – they can – more...
Since I represent a large number of the kids sued for downloading music, this news was a four alarm migraine: Jury hits mom with $220,000 verdict for 24 songs. Jury instruction that “offering for download” was “distribution dooms single mom to pay for world’s most expensive mix tape. My reaction -to Jon Healey of th L.A. Times and to the...