Sports Law Links

Each week The Sports Esquires keep track of the sports law headlines so you don’t have to.  In a slow news week, the NFL is the king again with a number of legal issues in the spotlight.

NFL

• Eli Manning accuses memorabilia dealer suing him of misrepresenting and omitting evidence.
• NFL players fight back against their own concussion lawyers.
• The DEA warned NFL doctors about drug laws in 2011, but it didn’t go well.
• The puzzle of Deflategate: private agreements and biased justice.
• Bob McGovern: Trauma study of Aaron Hernandez’s brain puts lawsuit against the NFL in play.
• Joe Mixon settles civil lawsuit and apologizes to victim.

NCAA

• Man charged in UNC agents probe agrees to testify.
• Judge denies NCAA request to question former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley.

Best of the Rest

• Boxer Dominic Breazeale sued Deontay Wilder and Marriott after a hotel altercation.
• NHL team wrongfully withheld documents in brain-injury case.
• Pro athletes’ income taxes are a reminder of how complicated the U.S. tax code is.
• Orioles’ fan injured by bat sues for more in-game protections.