@article{351957,
      recid = {351957},
      author = {Abrams, Roger I.,},
      title = {Sports justice the law and the business of sports /  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Northeastern University Press ;},
      address = {Boston, Mass. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (viii, 214 p.) :},
      year = {2010},
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      abstract = {In this accessible and fascinating look at law and sports,  Roger I. Abrams shines the lights on the uniquely complex  and important legal issues that face both amateur and  professional athletes. From cases involving Title IX,  transgendered athletes, rights of the disabled, violence on  the playing field, individual and franchise free-agency,  amateurism and college sports, and responsibility of  leagues for the safety and lifelong health of injured  players, Abrams weaves a profoundly moving and immediately  relevant story of ever broadening access to, and expanding  rights within, the field of sports. Abrams illuminates  these legal cases through compelling storytelling and  personal explorations of those involved, such as Jeremy  Bloom, the world champion mogul skier who was barred from  playing college football because he had modeled clothes for  Tommy Hilfiger, and Casey Martin, Renee Richards, and the  young gymnasts from Brown University who sought access to  the sports they loved, but found that their quest to  achieve justice required judicial intervention. There is  also one non-athlete: Al Davis, the renegade owner of the  Oakland-Los Angeles-Oakland Raiders, who beat the National  Football League cartel using the antitrust laws in his  effort to gain the respect he was always denied. Written  for sports fans and legal scholars alike, this is an  engrossing and surprising story of people battling for  their careers and lives, and in the process changing the  very nature of sports and society.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/351957},
}