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Author Weiler, Paul C.

Title Leveling the playing field : how the law can make sports better for fans / Paul C. Weiler.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2000.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  344.73099 W429l    ---  Available
Description xii, 367 p. ; 25 cm.
Note Includes index.
Contents Prologue : Sports on trial -- I. The integrity of sports. Misconduct on the field -- Honoring civil rights in sports -- The deadliest sin in sports -- The sports war on drugs -- Athletes as role models -- The moral ideal for American sports -- II. Owners versus players. Show us the money -- Sports joins the union -- Opening the flood-gates -- What antitrust did for players -- How to level the player field -- Salary sharing among players -- III. Owners versus owners--and fans. The brave new world of franchise free agency -- How far have we traveled? -- What the law should do with Raiders -- Stadium socialism or a stadium cap? -- Sports in intellectual space -- What should leagues be like? -- Expand or break up the big leagues? -- A better world for fans -- Epilogue : A performance-enhancing law for sports.
Subject Sports spectators -- Law and legislation.
Added Title Levelling the playing field
ISBN 0674001656 (alk. paper)

 
    
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