Sports and Eligibility: Who is Eligible to Play?

I am excited to be speaking at Case School of Law tomorrow. The Center for Law, Technology and the Arts is hosting a symposium entitled "Sports and Eligibility: Who is Eligible to Play?" It should be a great event, and the speakers' schedule is detailed below. Peter Carfagna, the Distinguished Visiting Practitioner at Case Western Law and Senior Counsel at Calfee, Halter & Griswold, is the symposium chair. We recently discussed Peter's extraordinary career in sports law.

The symposium will be webcast starting at 9:00 AM Eastern Time on Friday. If you want to watch it, click this webcast link Friday morning as it will be activated at that time (you will be given the choice to watch the symposium through Windows Media Player or Real Player).

The schedule for tomorrow (Friday) is as follows -- I hope you get a chance to watch:

9:00 a.m.-9:15 a.m. Welcome

Craig Allen Nard, Esq., Director of the Center for Law, Technology & the Arts and Tom J.E. and Bette Lou Walker Professor

9:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Introduction

Peter A. Carfagna, Esq., Distinguished Visiting Practitioner, Case School of Law, and Senior Counsel, Calfee, Halter & Griswold

9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m. Panel 1: Legality of Age Restrictions in the NBA and the NFL

Moderator:

– Joe Rosen, Esq., Brown & Rosen LLC, Managing Member of Orpheus Sports & Entertainment Consulting Company LLC

Panelists:

– Michael McCann, Esq., Assistant Professor of Law, Mississippi College School of Law

– Alan Milstein, Esq., Sherman Silverstein Kohl Rose & Podolsky

11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Panel 2: Individual Athletes' Eligibility: Who Can't Play and Why?

Moderator:

– Lisa K. Levine, Esq., Corporate Counsel, The Scott Fetzer Company

Panelists:

– Eve Wright, Esq., Senior Director of Legal Affairs, Ladies Professional Golf Association, LPGA International

– Christopher A. Callanan, Esq., Campbell Campbell Edwards & Conroy Professional Corporation

1:15 p.m.- 2:15 p.m. Luncheon Keynote Address

– “When Can the Athlete Turn Pro: Preparation of the Pre-Professional Athlete”
Loren Seagrave, Founder and Chief Performance Officer, Velocity Sports Performance

– “Training Pre-professional Athletes at ‘Performance Institutes’”
Kevin O’Donnell, Performance Consultant and Co-founder, Speed Dynamics

2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m. Panel 3: “The Business of Minor League Baseball: Amateur Eligibility Rules”

Moderator:

– Peter Carfagna, Distinguished Visiting Practitioner, Case School of Law and Senior Counsel, Calfee, Halter & Griswold

Panelists:

– John Farrell, Director, Player Development, Cleveland Indians

– Mike Hazen, Assistant Director, Player Development, Cleveland Indians

Hope you can watch the webcast on Friday morning.

Administrative Note: Since I will be traveling, I will have limited and infrequent access to e-mail/Internet over the next few days, so I may not get back to reader e-mails until next week, particularly since my students' e-mails are obviously my first priority (but Greg and I always read and genuinely appreciate your e-mails, so keep them coming).

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