[Ebook free] Leveling the Playing Field: How the Law Can Make Sports Better for Fans
• Paul C. Weiler •
| #5644062 in Books | Harvard University Press | 2000-06-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.21 x6.44 x9.56l, | File Name: 0674001656 | 384 pages |
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| One Law Professor's Take on the Problems in Professional Sports|By Roger D. Launius|Many of the major issues of modern professional sports revolve around issues of the law. Harvard's Henry J. Friendly professor of law Paul C. Weiler believes this firmly and "Leveling the Playing Field" is his attempt to explore this subject. Much of this terrain has been pursued in other works|From Library Journal|Weiler (law, Harvard) has produced a book that, while suggesting ways in which the law can work for fans to improve sports, will not be readily appreciated by those who would benefit from his largesse--except perhaps for diehard fans of Pet
The world of sports seems entwined with lawsuits. This is so, Paul Weiler explains, because of two characteristics intrinsic to all competitive sports. First, sporting contests lose their drama if the competition becomes too lopsided. Second, the winning athletes and teams usually take the "lion's share" of both fan attention and spending. So interest in second-rate teams and in second-rate leagues rapidly wanes, leaving one dominant league with monopoly power.
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