CONTEXT Concussion legislation has been enacted in all 50 of the United States, aiming to prevent mild traumatic brain injuries and the potential long-term sequelae of these injuries in youth athletics. Sports medicine providers, in addressing this major public health concern, are tasked with adhering to the established standards of medical care while also considering the legal implications. ...

We show that the tenure lengths for managers of sport teams follow a power law distribution with an exponent between 2 and 3. We develop a simple theoretical model which replicates this result. The model demonstrates that the empirical phenomenon can be understood as the macroscopic outcome of pairwise interactions among managers in a league, threshold effects in managerial performance evaluati...

Title IX, included as part of the Education Amendments of 1972, is justly credited with creating a revolution for women and their access to sports. Yet the work of eradicating discrimination in sports is far from over. Commentators lament that progress has slowed and even stagnated in recent years as the percentage of women engaged in intercollegiate sports has remained steady rather than incre...

Cases like International Skating Union and Super League show that the application of EU competition law to rules adopted by sports governing bodies is complex occasionally controversial. This article discusses peculiarities as an activity addresses implications for Articles 101 102 TFEU. It shows, first, relationship between individual participants in a tournament best described co-opetitive, s...