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Showing posts with label football. Show all posts
Showing posts with label football. Show all posts
Thursday, September 14, 2023

U.S. Soccer, FIFA lose antitrust appeal; defense shows short-sighted strategy to develop soccer in America

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Cristiano Ronaldo plays for Real Madrid against Barcelona in 2011. Jan S0L0 via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 U.S. Soccer and the Fédération Internat...
Monday, August 28, 2023

Can Arsenal supporter be impartial in football inquiry?

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A curious story of lawyering ethics and football allegiance broke in mid-May, just after I went off contract with UMass Law and left the Sta...
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Nike, Puma stop making shoes with kangaroo leather

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Nike and Puma both announced this year that they will stop using kangaroo leather to make shoes. I didn't know that kangaroo leather wa...
Monday, April 3, 2023

Event celebrates hostelling, honors firefighters

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Fire Station 2 today, a hostel and museum. RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The extended family of the Firehouse Hostel & Museum in Litt...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Weapon of Putin's war, anti-gay law jars NHL in US

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The NHL Chicago Blackhawks Sunday will host an annual Pride Night , but the team will not be wearing warm-up pride jerseys as intended, fo...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Politics complicates football: Sympathy for ... Iran

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As advertised , last week in Kraków, Poland, I had the great privilege to talk law, development, and the FIFA World Cup, with the group sta...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

With FIFA World Cup under way in Qatar, law students study sport and soft power, law and development

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I'll be talking law, development, and the World Cup today in Kraków, Poland. Thanks to the American Law Scientific Circle (KNPA) and Am...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Qatar World Cup opens Sunday; meanwhile, Netflix series stokes embers of FIFA corruption scandal

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I visited CONMEBOL HQ in Asunción, Paraguay, in October. The South American angle on the FIFA corruption scandal was engagingly fictionaliz...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

UK orders commission to study women's football; rising TV prices warn of commercial monopolization

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Karen Carney in 2019 (James Smed CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) The UK has announced "an in-depth review into the future of domest...
Saturday, August 13, 2022

NBC resists TV free market, overcharges U.S. viewers: PL football costs $20 in Canada, $70 in United States

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Each year, I become freshly enraged at the cost of seeing Premier League football in the United States, a ready example of antitrust non-enf...
Thursday, July 7, 2022

Qatar drops beIN sport piracy claim as World Cup nears

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Sideline interview with beIN (Ronnie Macdonald CC BY 2.0 via Flickr ) Qatar withdrew its complaint in April in the World Trade Organization...
Monday, July 4, 2022

U.S. footballers celebrate equal pay settlement

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Alex Morgan (Jamie Smed CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons) I was elated in April to hear of a proposed $24m settlement in the equal pay dispu...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Crisis worsens in Lviv; FIFA at last suspends Russia

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Stand with Ukraine rally at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. ( image by Victoria Pickering CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ) ABC News has published ...
Saturday, October 2, 2021

Sheriff FC tells two tales, because that's football, life

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Selfie, today (RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ) The Sheriff Football Club from Tiraspol in Transnistria, Moldova, defeated western European...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Courts extend European accountability laws to private actors: Italian soccer federation, Irish wind farm

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Two recent court decisions in Europe construed European directives on public accountability to reach ostensibly private actors, the Italian ...