 | |  | | March 18, 2011 FindLaw.com Sports Law Newsletter |  | | |
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NEW AND NOTEWORTHY: OBAMA PICKS UCONN TO WIN WOMEN'S TITLE
(AP) - President Barack Obama is staying with defending champion Connecticut in the women's basketball bracket. For the second straight year, Obama has filled out an NCAA women's tournament bracket for ESPN. He says top seeds Connecticut, Baylor, Stanford, and Tennessee will make the women's Final Four. Obama has the Huskies beating the Lady Bears in the national championship game.
| NUMBERS DOWN IN SEC AFTER CHANGES TO ALUMINUM BATS
(AP) - Offensive numbers have plummeted on baseball diamonds around the Southeastern Conference. The change to metal bats has reduced the once-gaudy deluge of hits and cut out the "cheap" homers that were synonymous with college baseball. LSU coach Paul Mainieri is seeing more zeros in box scores than he's ever seen in his 29-year coaching career. "It's dramatic," Mainieri said of the drop in offensive statistics. "The bats have made an enormous difference. It's changed the way you play. There's more hit and runs, more stealing and more moving runners any way you can.
| LONDON OLYMPIC COUNTDOWN CLOCK STOPS, RESTARTS
(AP) - A giant clock counting down to the 2012 London Olympics stopped for several hours Tuesday, less than a day after it went on display in Trafalgar Square. The digital clock, made by Olympic sponsor Omega, was stuck at 500 days, 7 hours, 6 minutes, 56 seconds, before workers fixed it. "It's one of those windups set to test us, but it's working again," London organizing committee chairman Sebastian Coe said.
| VISA FIXES TICKET PROBLEM FOR 2012 LONDON OLYMPICS
(AP) - Credit-card giant Visa says it has fixed the problem that left fans unable to book tickets for the 2012 London Olympics on the day they went on sale. A few hours into Tuesday's online ticket launch, fans with Visa cards that expire before the end of August found they were unable to process their orders. The company says starting Monday, all Visa cards with an expiration date of May 2011 or later will be accepted by the ticket application website for the London Games.
| FIGURE SKATING TO CONSIDER NEW PLANS FOR WORLDS
(AP) - Figure skating's ruling body will consider moving the world championships if Japanese organizers are unable by Monday to commit to hosting the event at a later date. The championships were to begin next week in Tokyo but were postponed because the earthquake and tsunami have left the country in crisis. International Skating Union President Ottavio Cinquanta sent a letter to Japanese organizers Tuesday asking if they could still host.
| ST. LOUIS BLUES UP FOR SALE
(AP) - The St. Louis Blues are for sale. Team chairman Dave Checketts said Wednesday night that his group, Sports Capital Partners Worldwide, and Towerbrook Capital Partners have placed the NHL franchise and the Scottrade Center on the market. The two groups own roughly 90 percent of the franchise. "We have tried putting together a group, which includes local investors, as well as others with the intention of buying out TowerBrook Capital Partners," Checketts said on a conference call.
| NFLPA: OWNERS' CONTRACT PROPOSAL WAS 'SWITCHEROO'
(AP) - The NFL Players Association says labor negotiations broke down last week because the owners' last proposal would have made salaries a fixed cost and eliminated the players' chance to share in higher-than-projected revenue growth. "That's a fundamental change as to the way the business has been done with the players - player percentage always has been tied to revenues," said Pete Kendall, the NFLPA's permanent player representative. Speaking to reporters Friday at the former union's annual meeting, Kendall described the league's offer as "kind of the old switcheroo."
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COLLEGE ATHLETICS: THE TARNISHED TWENTY: NBA REFEREE WILLIAM SPOONER SUES AP OVER TWITTER POST
(FindLaw's Tarnished Twenty) - Twitter is back in the news after an NBA referee filed a federal lawsuit against the Associated Press as well as a sportswriter the AP employs, Jon Krawczynski, over a Twitter post. The message suggested that veteran NBA referee William Spooner intentionally made a bad call to make up for an earlier bad call. Spooner is suing for defamation, the Associated Press reports.
| TOM BRADY, PEYTON MANNING ARE NAMED PLAINTIFFS IN NFL LAWSUIT
(FindLaw's Tarnished Twenty) - Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Drew Brees are known for being top-notch competitors on the gridiron, but what about in the courtroom? The All-pro NFL quarterbacks are listed along with Vincent Jackson, Mike Vrabel, and Von Milleras as plaintiffs in a class-action antitrust lawsuit filed against the NFL. They allege that the league and teams "have jointly agreed and conspired to deny plaintiffs the ability to provide and/or market their services," Reuters reports.
| ARRESTING DEVELOPMENTS: SPANISH DOCTOR CHARGED IN DOPING INVESTIGATION
(AP) - A prosecutor has brought the first formal charges against Eufemiano Fuentes and four other people in Spain's long-running Operation Puerto doping scandal. Judicial official Jose Manuel Garcia told The Associated Press on Friday it was up to a judge to decide whether to order a trial. However, Garcia said he expected the doctor and the other suspects, including former cycling team owner Manolo Saiz, to stand trial in the case. The case began with police raids in May 2006 that netted steroids and blood equipment.
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