Sunday Sports Law Notes & Sports Court Radio Show

The posts earlier this week on Eddy Curry (9/28 and 9/26) and Tony Allen (9/24) have generated excellent feedback from other blogs, especially those that more closely follow the athletes in question:

* Henry Abbott of True Hoop (which was recently named by Forbes Magazine as one of the best blogs) discusses the Eddy Curry saga and analyzes how Curry might be stigmatized by this whole affair.

* Matt Bernhardt of Blog a Bull has two timely posts on the Eddy Curry saga. It is useful to read analysis from someone who closely follows the Bulls and who understands their team culture and player/management dynamics. That adds a great deal of context to any legal analysis.

* Harlan Schreiber of Hoops Analyst discusses the importance of Eddy Curry being a restricted free agent, rather than an unrestricted free agent, and how we should not automatically assume that the lack of league interest in his services pertains to his heart condition. Harlan's post provides important supplemental material to my legal analysis (I only mentioned Curry's restricted free agent status in passing, and it deserves far more attention).

* Deadspin and BBallBlog each give their spin on Eddy Curry, and how both Curry and the Bulls have morally-defensible positions; it isn't as if there is a "bad guy" and "good guy" in this debate.

* Jeff of Celtcs Blog gives his take on the matter of Tony Allen and his now regrettable decision to say "F--- him up!" during a recent heated debate with another patron of a Chicago bar, especially when he said it someone who had a gun.

Some other posts of interest:

* Kimberly A. Brown of NBA Blog analyzes my law review article Illegal Defense: The Irrational Economics of Banning High Players from the NBA Draft.

* Attorney David Giacalone--a former FTC antitrust lawyer--at his Legal Ethics and Haiku Blog discusses a new article by Bruce Fein of the Washington Lawyer about baseball's antitrust exemption and related harm to DC baseball fans.

Also, for those interested in excellent sports law discussion on the radio, Sports Court, a weekly show hosted by attorneys David Frank and Scott Gilefsky of 1510 The Zone Sporting News Radio Boston, has a great program scheduled for tonight (7 PM to 9 PM). The guests will include:

* Shawn Peters, a columnist on the Remy Report and Sports Page 43.

* Amanda Martin, Assistant District Attorney of Suffolk County (Massachusetts) and supervisor of Roxbury District Court (she will discuss the prosecution of ticket scalping cases for individuals arrested for selling outside of Fenway Park).

* David Thomas, an attorney at the Boston law firm Gilman and Pastor (he will discuss the lawsuit he filed in Massachusetts Superior Court this past week that challenged the questionable business practices of several local ticket agents.)

Sports Court can be heard live at this link from 7 PM to 9 PM tonight. It should be another great show.

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