Sports Law News for Week Ending April 15

By Bennett Liebman

Commanders Ticket Scandal Now Before the FTC and Lina Khan

https://www.sportico.com/law/analysis/2022/commanders-ticket-scandal-1234671082/

Washington Commanders Tickets Revenue Withheld Daniel Snyder Congress

https://www.sportico.com/law/analysis/2022/washington-commanders-tickets-1234670949/

Congress details Commanders' 'potentially unlawful' financial conduct in letter to FTC

https://theathletic.com/news/washington-commanders-financial-conduct-allegations/Ewvp1IK646ZK/

Washington Commanders may have engaged in 'unlawful' conduct

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/04/12/washington-commanders-dan-snyder-house-oversight-ftc/

AGs Call Foul on NFL Gender Discrimination

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/ags-call-foul-on-nfl-gender-2928849/

Deshaun Watson Lawsuits Negligence Claims Could Mean Evidence for NFL

https://www.sportico.com/law/analysis/2022/deshaun-watson-lawsuits-1234670915/

Browns QB Deshaun Watson facing new pressure in lawsuits over massages

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2022/04/14/browns-qb-deshaun-watson-facing-new-pressure-lawsuits-over-massages/7300748001/?gnt-cfr=1

Football Asks Me to Make Moral Compromises

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/09/opinion/football-moral-compromises.html

Buyer Won't Have to Pay for Brady's Last Touchdown Ball

https://www.actionnetwork.com/nfl/buyer-wont-have-to-pay-for-bradys-last-touchdown-ball

Suit: Ex-XFL commissioner Oliver Luck didn't deserve 'excessive' compensation

https://theathletic.com/3250065/2022/04/14/xfl-lawsuit-oliver-luck-commissioner/?source=emp_shared_article

Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai is the face of NBA's uneasy China relationship

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33723055/brooklyn-nets-owner-joe-tsai-face-nba-uneasy-china-relationship

Lerner family to explore selling the Washington Nationals

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/04/11/washington-nationals-lerners-potential-sale/

Putin's actions go against the spirit of sport

https://www.infobae.com/aroundtherings/articles/2022/04/12/putins-actions-go-against-the-spirit-of-sport-says-yasuhiro-yamashita-who-says-he-is-not-as-good-a-friend-of-the-russian-leader-as-many-think/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

How do you solve a problem like Russia?

https://www.infobae.com/aroundtherings/articles/2022/04/12/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-russia-luge-struggles-to-find-a-solution-following-extraordinary-congress-and-unsatisfactory-legal-situation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

WADA Compliance Review Committee keeps Ukraine anti-doping compliance suspended

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1121873/wada-compliance-review-committee-ukraine

Will transgender sports rally conservative voters?

https://www.ajc.com/politics/will-transgender-sports-rally-conservative-voters-georgia-gop-is-banking-on-it/Z3UBRMATCZDDTFKMITVHS3UAXM/

How NCAA Athletes and Brands Can Avoid Big Mistakes in NIL Influencer Agreements

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/how-ncaa-athletes-and-brands-can-avoid-8008501/

The NFL should withdraw the Super Bowl LVII from Arizona

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/04/nfl-withdraw-super-bowl-lvii-arizona-heres/

Racism and The Rooney Rule:

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/04/nfl-withdraw-super-bowl-lvii-arizona-heres/

There's a new law in Kentucky banning transgender women in sports

https://www.wdrb.com/pov/theres-a-new-law-in-kentucky-banning-transgender-women-in-sports/article_fe7734ec-bbf0-11ec-921f-d7b92405522e.html

Iowa lawsuit over transgender athlete ban likely to proceed

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/lawsuit-over-idaho-transgender-athlete-ban-likely-to-proceed-1.5863220

U.S. Supreme Court taking on case of high school football coach fighting for right to pray

https://www.newsweek.com/us-supreme-court-taking-case-high-school-football-coach-fighting-right-pray-50-yard-line-1693135

Nick Saban has right answers for NIL

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/os-sp-nick-saban-dabo-swinney-nil-transfer-portal-alabama-clemson-bianchi-column-20220415-6b3n2qri5jhrbe2csfetnsvpna-story.html

Triple Crown 2022: Bob Baffert suspended from another race

https://www.nj.com/sports/2022/04/bob-baffert-suspended-from-another-triple-crown-race-amid-medina-spirit-controversy-report-says.html

Lazarus asks racing commissions to give HISA 'a chance'

https://www.horseracingnation.com/news/HISAs_Lazarus_asks_racing_commissions_to_give_authori