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Sports-Related Online ResourcesNote: June 2017. This page is maintained and updated from time to time for the benefit of all who research, write, teach, or work in some sports-related field — as well as all who play, or follow, sports for the sheer joy of the game.

The URL links are listed separately for the benefit of anyone wanting to print this page, and to ease the search for updated links should a link fail to respond.

This site was originally created October 4, 2010, and updated January 29, 2011, February 7, 2012, December 14, 2012, and with a major update in May and June of 2017. The original purpose was to serve as a resource for students in the Sports Law classes taught by Nicholas Johnson at the University of Iowa College of Law [91:346].

Although this site does not knowingly contain commercial advertising as such, we do welcome suggestions for additions, deletions, and corrections regarding material related to its purpose.

Online Resources Table of Contents

Organizations . Lawyers’ Associations and Firms . Leagues and Commissioners . Agents . Players . International . Management and Marketing . Media . Academic . University of Iowa; Hawkeyes Publications, Audio, Video . Newspapers and Magazines . Radio and TV . Other	Others’ Links to Resources, and Blogs Cases, Statutes, Documents . Illustrative Supreme Court Sports Law Cases . Statutes . Illustrative Sports Law Documents . Leagues’ Constitutions, By-Laws and Rules . Colective Bargaining Agreements & Contracts . Agents’ Agreements . Regulatory Bodies Law Reviews

OrganizationsLawyers’ Associations and Firms

ABA Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries,
http://www.americanbar.org/groups/entertainment_sports.html

Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association
http://www.besla.org

Chambers and Partners, Chambers USA 2010:
America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, the Client’s Guide,
“Sports Law: Nationwide,”
http://www.chambersandpartners.com/USA/Editorial/37109

Court of Arbitration for Sports,
http://www.tas-cas.org

Sport & Recreation Law Association,
http://www.srlawebsite.com/

Sports Lawyers Association,
http://www.sportslaw.org (membership fee)

Sports Litigation Alert,
http://www.sportslitigationalert.com

[more law firms ]

__________

Leagues and Commissioners

Major League Baseball,
http://mlb.mlb.com

Major League Soccer
https://www.mlssoccer.com/

National Association of Sports Commissioners,
http://www.sportscommissions.org/

National Basketball Association (NBA),
http://www.nba.com

National Football League (NFL),
http://www.nfl.com

National Hockey League (NHL)
http://www.nhl.com

Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA),
http://www.pga.com

. PGA Tour,
. http://www.pgatour.com

Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA),
http://www.wnba.com

Agents

And see, Illustrative Sports Law Documents/
Collective Bargaining Agreements & Contracts

Sports Agent Blog,
http://www.sportsagentblog.com/

Players

American Rights At Work,
http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/

Black Women in Sport Foundation,
http://www.blackwomeninsport.org/

Major League Baseball Players’ Association (MLBPA),
http://mlbplayers.mlb.com/pa

Major League Soccer Players’ Union,
http://www.mlsplayers.org

National Association for Girls and Women in Sport,
http://www.aahperd.org/nagws/

National College Players’ Association,
http://www.ncpanow.org/

National Basketball Players’ Association (NBAPA),
http://www.nbpa.com/

National Football League Players’ Association (NFLPA),
http://www.nflpa.com

National Hockey League Players’ Association,
http://www.nhlpa.com

Womens’ National Basketball Association
Players’ Association (WNBAPA),

International

Fédération Internationale de Football Association,
http://www.fifa.com/

International Association of Sports Law,
http://iasl.org/pages/en.php

International Olympic Committee,
http://www.olympic.org/en/content/The-IOC/

Olympic.org (The Olympic Movement),
http://www.olympic.org/

World Anti-Doping Agency,
http://www.wada-ama.org

Management and Marketing

Association of Professional Sales Agents
(Federation of Sports and Play Associations,
Sports & Leisure Industries), sports products,
http://www.apsa.org.uk

National Sports Marketing Network,
http://sportsmarketingnetwork.com

North American Society for Sport Management,
http://www.americansportscastersonline.com/

Sports Agent 411
http://www.sportsagent411.com

SportsPro,
http://www.sportspromedia.com/

Women in Sport,
http://www.womeninsport.com

Media

American Sportscasters Association,
http://www.americansportscastersonline.com/

Associated Press Sports Editors,
http://apsportseditors.com/

Association for Women in Sports Media,
http://awsmonline.org/

Academic

Collegiate Athletic Business Management Association,
http://www.nacda.com/cabma/nacda-cabma.html

National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics
Administrators,
http://new.abanet.org/forums/entsports/Pages/
default.aspx

National Sports & Entertainment Law Society, The
http://nationalsels.org

National Sports Law Institute (Marquette University
Law School),
https://law.marquette.edu/national-sports-law-institute/welcome
pageID=160

University of Iowa; Hawkeyes

Athletics, University of Iowa,
http://www.uiowa.edu/homepage/sports/index.html

Big Ten Conference,
http://www.bigten.org/

Hawk Central (Iowa City Press-Citizen and
Des Moines Register),
http://hawkcentral.com/

Hawkeye Sports.com,
http://www.hawkeyesports.com/

Black Heart Gold Pants,
http://www.blackheartgoldpants.com/

University of Iowa College of Law
Sports Law Society of the University of Iowa College of Law,
https://www.facebook.com/Sports-Law-Society-of-The-University-of-Iowa-College-of-Law-166626496726024/
Publications, Audio, Video

Newspapers and Magazines

Sporting News, http://www.sportingnews.com/

Sports, New York Times,
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/sports/index.html

Sports Illustrated, https://www.si.com/
(note that the link to SI Reporters, https://www.si.com/reporters,
provides links to all recent columns, and a drop-down menu
of SI Reporters that links to the archives of each writer)

SportsPro, http://www.sportspromedia.com/

Street & Smith Sports Business Journal/Daily
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal.aspx

Radio and TV

Frank Deford, “Sweetness and Light,” NPR,
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4499275;
and see http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=2100422

Bill Littlefield, “Only a Game,” WBUR-FM,
http://www.onlyagame.org

Big Ten Network,
http://www.bigtennetwork.com

ESPN,
http://espn.go.com/

Other

Association for Applied Sport Psychology,
http://appliedsportpsych.org/

National Science Foundation,
“Science of NFL Football: Vectors,”
http://science360.gov/obj/tkn-video/0ca015f8-
0d4c-4d0b-a31e-257ba1445c32

Others’ Links to Resources, and BlogsConnecticut Sports Law (Daniel Fitzgerald),
http://ctsportslaw.com/

Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Blog (New York State Bar Association),
http://nysbar.com/blogs/EASL/

Findlaw, Entertainment and Sports Law,
http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/12entertainsport/sites.html

Legal Research: Sports Law, University of Washington
Law Library, Nancy McMurrer, July 7, 2008, http://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/sports.html

LexBlog Network, The (LXBN),
http://www.lxbn.com/?s=sports

National Sports Law Institute (Marquette), Sports Law Research Website,
https://law.marquette.edu/national-sports-law-institute/sports-law-research-website

Sports Agent Blog
http://sportsagentblog.com/

Sports Law Blog,
http://sports-law.blogspot.com/

Symmes Law Blog,
http://symmesandhsu.wordpress.com

Work in Sports,
https://www.workinsports.com/jobs/sports-links-centralcom.asp
Cases, Statutes. Documents

Illustrative Supreme Court Sports Law Cases

American Needle, Inc. v. NFL, 130 S.Ct. 2201 (2010), http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?
court=us&vol=000&invol=08-661

Brown v. Pro Football Inc., 518 U.S. 231 (1996), http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?
navby=case&court=us&vol=518&page=231

Flood v. Kuhn, 407 U.S. 258 (1972),
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?
navby=case&court=us&vol=407&page=258

NCAA v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma,
468 U.S. 85 (1984), http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/
getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=468&page=85

NCAA v. Tarkanian, 488 U.S. 179 (1988),
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?
navby=case&court=us&vol=488&page=179

PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin, 532 U.S. 661 (2001), http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?
navby=case&court=us&vol=532&page=661

Statutes

Sherman Act (1890), §§ 1 and 2
15 U.S.C. § 1, http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/15/1/1
15 U.S.C. § 2, http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/15/1/2

Clayton Act (1914), §§ 4, 6, 20
15 U.S.C. § 15, http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/15/1/15
15 U.S.C. § 17, http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/15/1/17
29 U.S.C. § 52, http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/29/5/52

Norris-LaGuardia Act (1932)
29 U.S.C. §101, http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/29/6/101/
29 U.S.C. §102, http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/29/6/102/
29 U.S.C. §104, http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/29/6/104/
29 U.S.C. §105, http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/29/6/105/
29 U.S.C. §113, http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/29/6/113/

National Labor Relations Act
(Wagner Act (1935), as amended by Taft-Hartley Act (1948))
29 U.S.C. § 151, http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/29/7/II/151/
29 U.S.C. § 152, http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/29/7/II/152/
29 U.S.C. § 157, http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/29/7/II/157/
29 U.S.C. § 158, http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/29/7/II/158/
29 U.S.C. § 159, http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/29/7/II/159/
29 U.S.C. § 160, http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/29/7/II/160/

Curt Flood Act (1998)
15 U.S.C. § 26b, http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/15/1/26b
(Application of the Antitrust Laws to Professional Major
League Baseball)

Ted Stevens Olympic & Amateur Sports Act,
https://www.adreducation.org/media/12832/1998%20ted%20stevens%20olympic%20and%20amateur%20sports%20act.pdf

Title IX, Education Amendment Act 1972, 20 U.S.C. § 1681
http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/20/38/1681

Office for Civil Rights, Department of Education, Regulations
http://www2.ed.gov/policy/rights/reg/ocr/edlite-34cfr106.html
See especially, 34 C.F.R. §§ 106.41Office for Civil Rights, Dear Colleague Letter, April 20, 2010, 13pp. (“Three Prong Test”),
http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/
colleague-20100420.html

Uniform Athlete Agents Act
(National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, 2000),
http://www.uniformlaws.org/shared/docs/athlete_agents/uaaa_finalact_2000.pdfIllustrative Sports Law Documents

Leagues’ Constitutions, By-Laws and Rules

Major League Baseball Constitution (1921-2000),
http://www.law.uh.edu/assignments/summer2009/25691-b.pdf
MLConsititutionJune2005Update.pdf

National Football League Constitution and By-Laws,
http://static.nfl.com/static/content/public/static/html/
careers/pdf/co_.pdf

National Basketball Association Constitution and By-Laws,
unavailable online

National Hockey League Constitution and By-Laws,
http://www.cmaxxsports.com/misc/NHL%20Constitution.pdf (p. 26 of 83); http://www.cmaxxsports.com/misc/NHL%20Constitution.pdf (p. 58 of 83)

Collective Bargaining Agreements & Contracts

Major League Baseball Players’ Association
Collective Bargaining Agreement,
http://mlb.mlb.com/pa/pdf/cba_english.pdf

Major League Baseball Trading Cards,
http://contracts.onecle.com/topps/mlbpa-license-
2006-09-05.shtml

Major League Soccer Players’ Union
Collective Bargaining Agreement 2015-2020),
https://www.mlsplayers.org/images/Collective%20Bargaining%20Agreement%20-%20February%201,%202015.pdf

National Basketball Association Players’Association
(NBAPA) Collective Bargaining Agreement (2017),
http://3c90sm37lsaecdwtr32v9qof.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2017-NBA-NBPA-Collective-Bargaining-Agreement.pdf

National Basketball Association Players’ Association
(NBAPA) Collective Bargaining Agreement (1999),
https://ipmall.law.unh.edu/sites/default/files/hosted_resources/SportsEntLaw_Institute/1999NBA_NBPA_CBA.pdf

National Basketball Association Players’ Association
(NBAPA) Player Agents’ Application,
http://nbpa.com/agents/

National Football League Players’ Association
Collective Bargaining Agreement,
https://nfllabor.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/collective-bargaining-agreement-2011-2020.pdf
General/NFL%20COLLECTIVE%20BARGAINING%20
AGREEMENT%202006%20-%202012.pdf

National Football League (NFL) Sample Player Contract,
http://www.thehogs.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=392237

National Football League (NFL) Interactive Media Agreement,
http://contracts.onecle.com/sportsline/
nfl.media.2001.07.06.shtml

Women’s National Basketball Association
Players’ Association Collective Bargaining Agreement,
http://www.womensbasketballonline.com/wnba/wnbacba08.pdf

Agents’ Agreements

Major League Baseball Players’ Association (MLBPA)
Regulations Governing Player Agents,
http://www.mlbplayers.com/pdf9/4925108.pdf

National Football League (NFL) Regulations
Governing Contract Advisors, https://nflparesources.blob.core.windows.net/mediaresources/files/PDFs/SCAA/2012_NFLPA_Regulations_Contract_Advisors.pdf

Regulatory Bodies

And see, Organizations, International.

National Collegiate Athletic Association
http://www.ncaa.org

NCAA 2011-12 Division I Manual; Constitution, Operating Bylaws, Administrative Bylaws (August 1, 2011)
http://saas.usc.edu/files/2012/08/NCAA-2011-12-Manual.pdf

United States Anti-Doping Agency
http://www.usantidoping.org
Law Reviews

See generally, Entertainment & Sports Law Journals,
Findlaw.com,
http://stu.findlaw.com/journals/art_sports.html
(note that some of those listed below without links may be
available through the subscription service, HeinOnline,
http://home.heinonline.org)

DePaul Journal of Sports Law & Contemporary Problems

Entertainment and Sports Law

Entertainment and Sports Lawyer (ABA)
http://www.americanbar.org/publications/entertainment_sports_lawyer_home.html

International Sports Law Journal, The

International Sports Law Review

Journal of Copyright, Entertainment and Sports Law

Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law (Harvard)
http://harvardjsel.com

Marquette Sports Law Review

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

Texas Entertainment and Sports Law Journal,
http://www.teslaw.org/index.php?option=
com_content&view=article&id=13&Itemid=11

University of Miami Sports Law Review

Villanova Sports Law Journal, The Jeffrey S. Moorad,
http://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/mslj/