Sports and Antitrust Law presents a legal overview of sports-related topics and offers an exciting new resource on the most current cases and issues, both for the seasoned practitioner and the novice antitrust sports lawyer. This book provides a framework for understanding the ever-evolving area of sports law and its intersection with antitrust law. Sports and Antitrust Law addresses such topics as general sports-related antitrust principles, the history of sports law, and recurring issues in professional sports.

In six chapters, Sports and Antitrust Law examines the following topics:

• Chapter I discusses exemptions, including the everevolving labor exemption most relevant to the major sports leagues
• Chapter II addresses the threshold issue of what is not covered by the Sherman Actnamely, non-commercial restraints and on-field" rules and discipline
• Chapter III presents the basic analytical framework of the Sherman Act's application to the sports industry: the elements of Section 1 and Section 2 claims, the singleentity doctrine, and modes of analyses (per se, quick look," and full rule of reason for Section 1 cases and Section 2 analytical principles)
• Chapter IV focuses on the application of these principles to specific recurring issues and subjects, including market definition, market power, and a number of challenged restraints" (e.g., involving players, teams, equipment, broadcasts)
• Chapter V explores sports issues in private litigation, including standing, class actions, injunctions, and damages
• Chapter VI discusses the development of sports antitrust law in Canada