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Showing posts with label soccer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soccer. Show all posts
Monday, February 26, 2024

Parks group challenges soccer stadium under state constitutional right to environmental conservation

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A Boston lawsuit pits parks against soccer, tying in knots fans of both such as me. The Emerald Necklace Conservancy  on February 20 sued t...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Saturday, August 21, 2021

American soccer traces roots to textile mills

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In the first pandemic summer, I watched and adored the limited TV series, The English Game , which depicted the birth of modern soccer, or ...
Monday, April 12, 2021

From soccer pitch to memoir, and now to White House, Rapinoe shines in USWNT equal pay crusade

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Rapinoe speaks at the White House (from White House video). Today a federal district court in California is expected to approve a partial se...
Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Ted Lasso heads to UK, will coach AFC Richmond

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From The Daily Show with Trevor Noah ( Oct. 6, 2020 ) A new Apple TV+ show has Saturday Night Live alum Jason Sudekis playing southern-d...
Thursday, September 3, 2020

My Summer Book Report (2020)

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Coronavirus propelled UMass into financial crisis in the spring, and, as a result, law faculty summer research stipends evaporated.  With th...