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Leveling the playing field : how the law can make sports better for fans /
"The world of sports seems entwined with lawsuits. This is so, Paul Weiler explains, because of two characteristics intrinsic to all competitive sports. First, sporting contests lose their drama if the competition becomes too lopsided. Second, the winning athletes and teams usually take the &qu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: Sports on trial
- I. The integrity of sports. Misconduct on the field
- Honoring civil rights in sports
- The deadliest sin in sports
- The sports war on drugs
- Athletes as role models
- The moral ideal for American sports
- II. Owners versus players. Show us the money
- Sports joins the union
- Opening the Flood-gates
- What antitrust did for players
- How to level the player field
- Salary sharing among players
- III. Owners versus owners--and fans. The brave new world of franchise free agency
- How far have we traveled?
- What the law should do with Raiders
- Stadium socialism or a stadium cap?
- Sports in intellectual space
- What should leagues be like?
- Expand or break up the big leagues?
- A better world for fans
- Epilogue: A performance-enhancing law for sports.