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Showing posts with label sport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sport. Show all posts
Saturday, March 9, 2024

Can't see sports, Oscars without channel-bundle subscription you don't want? Let regulators know

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Gencraft I filed a comment today with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice regarding the Disney-Fox-Warner sport stream...
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...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Sport researchers examine athlete dissent online

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Spencer Peltz , my brother, has published a co-authorship, " Athletes’ Displaced Dissent on Social Media: Triggering Agents, Message St...
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...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

'Marketplace' features book, film, Wisconsin law class on wild risks at shuttered N.J. water park

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Action Park fun in 1994 (Joe Shlabotnik CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) Marketplace today features a torts course about accident risk an...
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...
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, May 17, 2021

U.S. State Department dabbles in gamer diplomacy

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Flickr by Casey Fiesler , CC BY 2.0 The U.S. State Department announced in April that it will sponsor 10-week virtual student exchange pr...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

Introducing your next ambassador of quan

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Peltz If you've consumed any social media from Clemson Tigers Baseball in the last couple of years, you're probably already a reade...
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 ...