Leveling the Playing Field : How the Law Can Make Sports Better for Fans.

Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: Sports on Trial -- I The Integrity of Sports -- 1 Misconduct on the Field -- 2 Honoring Civil Rights in Sports -- 3 The Deadliest Sin in Sports -- 4 The Sports War on Drugs -- 5 Athletes as Role Models -- 6 The Moral Ideal for American Sports -- II Owners versus Players -- 7 Show Us the Money -- 8 Sports Joins the Union -- 9 Opening the Flood-Gates -- 10 What Antitrust Did for Players -- 11 How to Level the Player Field -- 12 Salary Sharing among Players -- III Owners versus Owners -- and Fans -- 13 The Brave New World of Franchise Free Agency -- 14 How Far Have We Traveled? -- 15 What the Law Should Do with Raiders -- 16 Stadium Socialism or a Stadium Cap? -- 17 Sports in Intellectual Space -- 18 What Should Leagues Be Like? -- 19 Expand or Break up the Big Leagues? -- 20 A Better World for Fans -- Epilogue. A Performance-Enhancing Law for Sports -- Acknowledgements -- Index.

The ideal of evenly balanced sporting contests is continually challenged by economic, social, and technological forces. Consequently, Weiler argues, the law is essential to level the playing field for players, owners, fans, and taxpayers. Weiler analyzes a wide array of moral and economic issues that arise in all American competitive sports.

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