Baseball’s reserve clause allowed total team control of a player’s career. Baseball’s hold on the American imagination and control of player contracts allowed it to survive the 1919 Black Sox scandal, the Great Depression, segregation, franchise relocations and two major U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
Jun 1, 2018 12:35 AM CDT
Curt Flood pauses on June 1, 1970, in front of Federal Court in New York City, where his legal challenge of baseball’s reserve clause resumed. Flood balked at being traded by the St. Louis Cardinals to the Philadelphia Phillies and sued organized baseball for $3 million in damages. Photograph by AP Photo.
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The First Amendment restricts the government from interfering with free speech rights, but it doesn’t cover job-related consequences for private employees--or even star comedians.
May 31, 2018 11:22 AM CDT
Producer Harvey Weinstein opted not to testify before a grand jury that indicted him Wednesday on charges of rape and criminal sexual assault.
May 31, 2018 9:14 AM CDT
Michigan State University has reached a $500 million settlement with 332 victims of Larry Nassar, a former sports doctor for the university who was sentenced to prison for sexually…
May 16, 2018 11:57 AM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down a federal law that bars states from authorizing sports betting.
May 14, 2018 9:26 AM CDT
A lawyer representing two former cheerleaders for National Football League teams has offered to settle their bias complaints for $1 each and a “good faith” meeting with Commissioner Roger Goodell…
Apr 25, 2018 2:31 PM CDT
Former Miami Dolphins cheerleader Kristan Ann Ware filed a complaint against the team and the NFL earlier this month claiming she was discriminated against because of her religion and gender.
Apr 20, 2018 3:00 PM CDT
LeBron James and his multimedia platform, Uninterrupted, were sued by a Detroit barbershop that claims trademark infringement over the NBA star’s web series.
Apr 20, 2018 1:40 PM CDT
Lance Armstrong has agreed to pay $5 million settle a whistleblower suit joined by the federal government that alleged he violated a cycling sponsorship agreement with the U.S. Postal Service…
Apr 20, 2018 9:04 AM CDT
Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James and his multimedia platform, Uninterrupted, sent a notice of copyright infringement to the University of Alabama earlier this month.
Apr 16, 2018 1:47 PM CDT
The NFL claims in a motion filed Friday that a special investigator should be appointed to stop the “widespread fraud” in claims filed under the
$1 billion concussion settlement.
Apr 13, 2018 5:03 PM CDT
Updated: Best actress winner Frances McDormand had some people scratching their heads Sunday evening when she ended her
acceptance speech at the Oscars with two words of advice: “inclusion rider.”
Mar 5, 2018 9:01 AM CST
A state court judge has decided to dismiss a defamation suit filed against John Oliver over a satirical segment on the cable television program Last Week Tonight that criticized a…
Feb 26, 2018 2:55 PM CST
A federal judge in San Francisco has overturned a California law that gives actors the power to remove information about their age from online profiles on the IMDb website.
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Feb 21, 2018 11:55 AM CST