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Experts say American Needle may turn out to be the most important legal decision in sporting history. The sportswear manufacturer contracted with NFL teams to produce hats and headgear with official team logos. But the NFL decided to give an exclusive leaguewide license to Reebok in 2000, leading American Needle to sue, claiming the NFL's action violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by limiting the market for who could produce team-branded merchandise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Supreme Court Cases to Watch This Term | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

Both players agree that law school will always be there if things don’t work out for Williams, but if they do, the result could be lucrative. While first-year attorneys earn an average of $125,000, an NFL fifth-round draft pick’s first-year salary averages...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Heeding the Call of the NFL | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

Though Berry’s Harvard degree certainly helped him get a job on Wall Street, the former gridiron standout knows that playing in the Ivy League made it tougher to make it in the NFL...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Heeding the Call of the NFL | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...always go back to law school, but this opportunity will not present itself again,” says Williams, who will take the LSATs after the season ends. “This is my opportunity if I want to play in the NFL...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Heeding the Call of the NFL | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...could argue of course, that the NCAA isn’t in the business of producing professional athletes. Indeed, its stated mission is to promote the safety and academic progress of its student-athletes. However, the lines of pre-professional development have been blurred in its relationship with the NFL and NBA (and by extension, the millions of dollars in profits earned through the sweat of college football and basketball players...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Soccer at Odds with US Goals | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

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