The impact on this year’s painfully slow developing free agent market can be traced all the way back to Jeffrey Loria's acquisition of the Marlins in 2002.

Each week The Sports Esquires keep track of the sports law headlines so you don’t have to.  This week’s edition features the oral arguments in the New Jersey sports betting case and the IOC’s ban on Russia’s participation in the Olympics.

On September 19, the North American Soccer League (NASL) filed an antitrust lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) after the governing body decided not to renew the league’s divisional sanction for 2018. Though it likely faces long odds, the long-awaited lawsuit could have a significant impact on the structure of soccer in the United States.

The NBA’s board of governors voted 28-1-1 to pass legislation on draft lottery reform, with Oklahoma City voting against the reform and Dallas abstaining.  While Silver himself admitted that the reform is “far from perfect,” the NBA hopes the new rules will limit teams’ attempts to tank in an effort to get higher picks.

Each week the Sports Esquires keep track of the sports law headlines so you don’t have to.  This week’s edition features a host of NBA and NHL issues, Russian doping sanctions, combat sports, and more.

Our weekly sports law links have been on a brief hiatus, but we want to make sure you’re caught up on the top sports law news around the country, so this week we’ll be updating you on the news you might have missed. 

The NCAA, even more than amateurism, has a vice grip on lawsuits involving eligibility, so what is there to be done to reconcile some of the issues that transfer student-athletes face?

NFL owners are meeting in Phoenix this week, and all signs suggest they will vote to approve the Oakland Raiders’ move to Las Vegas today, March 27. Although $750 million in public funds to build a state-of-the-art stadium in Sin City does sound really nice, that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. In fact, the decision to allow the Raiders to move Las Vegas would be, a terribly short-sighted action that is more likely to fail miserably than succeed.

Each week The Sports Esquires keep track of the sports law headlines so you don’t have to. It’s March Madness and that means plenty of NCAA news, even in sports law.

The official NBA collective bargaining agreement is barely a month old, but it has already influenced the biggest trade of the NBA season.