The Importance Of Fair Hearing In Professional Sports

A salary cap in all four major professional sports is unfathomably crucial. A salary cap is a set maximum or minimum amount of money that a team is allowed to spend on its players (Cushman 3). The four major professional sports are the National Football League or NFL, Major League Baseball or MLB, the National Basketball Association or NBA, and the National Hockey League or NHL (Cushman 1).

When dealing with sporting events, there are personal relationships that have been created between the athletic staff, administration, athletes and fans. Some relationships also includes obligations to each other as a duty of care ton assist and prevent negligence within a program. The purpose of this assignment is to compare three different case studies as it relates to negligence. The first case study is Clement v. Griffin (1994), followed by Schweichler v. Poway Unified School District (2005), and the case of Marcus v. City of Newton (2012). All of these cases are related to suits that have been file pertaining to some type of negligence. However each case that will be presented will not be negligence.

It was called “Acceptance,” a story about a father whose alcoholism kills his son, an All-American football star. A second chance is then offered in the form of two new sons, one homosexual and the other intellectually disabled. As far as the outcome, you would have to “…wait for the movie”. The outlandish story Rae Carruth imagined would never reach the big screen, instead his own life would far eclipse the scenario he created when he chose to have his eight-month pregnant girlfriend and unborn baby murdered instead of paying child support. Part of his plan did work, Cherica Adams did die, but not before calling 911, identifying Carruth, and also giving birth to their son, who survived. It was a shocking crime that would make headlines,

According to Mosser (2013) "Relativism is the idea that one's beliefs and values are understood in terms of one's society, culture, or even one's own individual values."

Last Wednesday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York declined to reconsider its April decision not to overturn four-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady’s four-game suspension, handed down by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in May 2015. Consequently, the New England Patriots quarterback recently ended his fight against the punishment, deciding to forego his final option of appealing to the Supreme Court.

ss. At the time, nobody knew anything about concussions and what they can do to a person. It wasn’t until about 1994 when the NFL started too research brain injuries. Since then, the NFL has been pushing concussion protocol. Teams must follow protocol to the period and they don’t, they will be fined.

Whether it be baseball, football, soccer, or basketball, sports are appreciated not only in America, but all over the world. One of these sports that is particularly popular in America is Football. The immense crowds of people who sit at a stadium or on the couch to watch a game never fail to recognize every single play on the field; however, many fans pay little to no attention to one of the most important components of the game, the player-association relationship. When signing a contract with an NFL team an NFL player is effectively dedicating his life to his new organization. His duty is to play for his team in order to make the organization money, and money they make. In the NFL last year “each team received $226.4 million” (Brady 1).

Bounty Gate, Bully Gate, Incontinency In Punishments, Thursday Night Football every week, Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson, Greg Hardy, the fake controversy that was Deflate Gate, Appealing Judge Berman’s decision, and now this.

In the legal case of The National Football League Players Association, on its own and on behalf of Adrian Peterson, v. National Football League; National Football League Management Council, Commissioner Goodell uses his absolute power in regards to the constitution and the CBA to uphold the suspension of Adrian Peterson. Goodell used the August 2014 memorandum when deciding Peterson’s punishment. Which meant that Peterson would be suspended for a minimum of six-games without pay. Goodell cited that the severity of the abusive incident merited the long suspension and Peterson’s continued lack of remorse for his actions. The NFLPA appealed Goodell’s decision and Goodell used his power to appoint an independent hearing officer. The NFLPA argued that

Severe Breach of Conduct. As stated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (2013), Level I violations “… seriously undermine or threaten the integrity of the NCAA collegiate model set forth in the Constitution and bylaw…” (p.1). This includes any violation that provides “competitive or other advantages,” or “substantial or extensive impermissible benefit.” Such infractions would include, but are not limited to, academic fraud, lack of institutional control, failure to cooperate in an NCAA enforcement investigation,

At this writing, the world awaits Judge Richard M. Berman’s next, and potentially final, Deflategate decision. Following the NFL’s dismissal of New England Patriots’ celebrity quarterback Tom Brady’s appeal against his four-game suspension—a Deflategate punishment that rests upon shaky ground—the judge wants to resolve the case before the 2015 regular season kicks off on September 10th. The decision will follow a high-profile hearing on August 31st, at which NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Brady will be present. Under the NFL’s 2011 collective bargaining agreement, Goodell holds the supreme power to do whatever he thinks is best, whether his team owners agree with him or not.

Tom Brady did appeal the suspension but it was upheld by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. After the suspension was upheld Tom Brady refused to back down and along with the NFLPA (NFL Players Association) brought the suspension to federal court. The hearing would be done under Judge Berman of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Judge Berman tried his best to get the NFL and Tom Brady to settle on an agreement but both sides held their ground for three hearings. After no settlement was reached Judge Berman was forced to make a ruling, and on september 3, 2015 he threw away Tom Brady’s four game suspension. So Tom Brady had won, or did

After Ray Rice was suspended by the National Football League (NFL) for assaulting his girlfriend at the time. Since his suspension, Rice has appealed

The money that players would be rewarded that would teach life skills and provide prosperity could easily be found in the NCAA. As of right now, the NCAA has an abundance of money that they are keeping to themselves and are turning the NCAA into a monopoly. Financial analyst Tom Gerencer confirms that the NCAA athletics make $12 billion a year. Some of this money is then distributed to universities around the country to fund athletic programs and pay coaches and other staff members. The money that the NCAA does not give out is taken in as a profit for that year which is usually around $1 million. None of this large sum of money is given to players as compensation for participating in their sport (Gerencer). The NCAA was invented to benefit

After hearings on June 23rd and August 12th of 2015, Judge Richard Berman ruled to vacate Tom Brady’s four-game suspension on the morning of September 3rd . In his court document, Berman makes the following statement: For the reasons stated herein, the Management Council’s motion to confirm the arbitration award [ECF No. 4] is denied and the Player’s Association’s motion to vacate the arbitration award [ECF No. 28] is granted. Brady’s four-game suspension is vacated, effective immediately. The Clerk is respectfully requested to close cases 15 Civ. 5916 and 15 Civ. 5982. On October 27th, the NFL filed a 61-page brief in court that appealed Judge Berman’s decision in the Deflategate case. The NFL stated the Commissioner concluded that: “(1) Mr.