What is Sports Law
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"Show me the money!"
"I can't hear you, Jerry. Say it louder."
"Showwwww meeee the moneyyyyy!"
"Okay, Jerry, you can be my agent."
This popular dialogue from the movie Jerry McGuire, an Oscar-winning film, gives an accurate picture of the world of sports law. A combination of many legal disciplines, sports law encompasses more areas of law than any other field of law. These disciplines range from antitrust law to tax law, with contract law being the most used and most identifiable in the field. With new legislation and regulations passed each day, sports law is a dynamic field with new issues arising daily in the three areas that it can roughly be divided into amateur, professional, and international sports.
Ranging from casual athletics on weekends to competitive high school athletics to extensively organized intercollegiate competitions, amateur sports activities are usually organized and managed by individual groups that establish eligibility rules; and the courts rarely interfere with these groups' actions as long as they are reasonably applied...