More on Price v. Sports Illustrated: Law.com has an article discussing a judge's order that Sports Illustrated reveal its confidential sources that form the basis of former Alabama coach Mike Price's defamation suit against the magazine. The article draws a comparison between the SI case and the case of Richard Jewell, the man who was accused of the Olympic Park bombing and has been pursuing a libel suit against the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for seven years.



You can read my earlier post about the SI case here. Law.com has articles about Jewell's case, the US Supreme Court denying certioari, and the original Georgia Court of Appeals ruling in the case.



The case, Jewell v. Atlanta Journal-Constitution is available at 251 Ga. App. 808 (2001).

Paying College Athletes: The Oakland Tribune has an article about California Senate Bill 193, which would mandate certain rights for student-athletes in California public universities, but also violate numerous NCAA policies.



You can read more about SB 193, along with Nebraska Legislative Bill 688, which proposes to pay a stipend to college athletes, in my piece, "Payment for College Football Players in Nebraska," which will be published in the Harvard Journal on Legislation next month.

The NFL "Trigger" for Relocation: The San-Diego Tribune discusses the highly complex formula of deciding when an NFL team may seek to relocate. Basically, the formula says a team can attempt to move when its costs for salaries and benefits are greater than 75 percent of the gross revenues of the average NFL team. But it is infinitely more complicated than that.

More on Rose: Jayson Stark has more on why Rose's plan to get reinstated to baseball has taken a turn for the worse. You can read more about the Rose admission here.

Legal Implications of the Gibbs Hiring: Joe Gibbs was hired yesterday to coach the Washington Redskins, a team he left in 1992. Since that time, Gibbs has become a very successful NASCAR owner and is the CEO of Joe Gibbs Racing. Gibbs has said he plans to continue owning the team, but this could possibly be affected by NFL rules limiting financial involvement in other sports properties. USA Today and the Washington Post have stories.



This raises a very interesting legal question. How much can the NFL limit the ability of one of its owners to own a stake in another sports property? There seem to be definite liberty of contract, and possibly even antitrust issues at stake. It does not appear to be a problem in this case, since Gibbs's sons own 98% of the racing team, but it could arise with a future owner.

Former Baylor Player Sues Bliss: Former Baylor basketball player Chad Elsey has sued former coach Dave Bliss for $100,000, claiming that the coach broke a promise to help him get into law school and to pay for his tuition. According to Elsey, who is a student at the University of Tulsa law school and filed the suit on his own behalf, Bliss made the promise during a recruiting visit and said that he could get around the NCAA rules.



The Dallas Morning News has more.

Interesting Tidbit: This isn't legally-related but I found it interesting. The New York Times has an article today that details the content of the 3 hour and 43 minute Sugar Bowl played on Sunday. It turns out that viewers saw only 16 minutes and 28 seconds of live action football-- only 7 percent of the broadcast! The rest was consumed with on-screen graphics, replays, coaches shots, commercials, etc.



Even worse, the Colts play-off game victory over Denver had only 12 minutes and 18 seconds of live football action. This makes TIVO seem really worth the money.