Archive for November, 2010

The NFL and the NFLPA: The Significance of the Current Collective Bargaining Process and a Collection of Relevant Legal and Ethical Issues (Part 2: A Brief and General History of the 1993 NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement)

  A Concise History of Collective Bargaining in the NFL and a Look Towards the Future After a players’ strike in 1987, collective bargaining commenced and resulted in the 1993 collective bargaining agreement.  The CBA lasted 17 years, and in 2008, the owners decided to opt out after its expiration in 2010.  “When the collective [ READ MORE ]

The NFL and the NFLPA: The Significance of the Current Collective Bargaining Process and a Collection of Relevant Legal and Ethical Issues (Part 1: Introduction, Etc.)

  Introduction: A Concise Discussion of the Issues at Hand In 1993, the NFL and players’ union (NFLPA) finalized the current collective bargaining agreement (CBA) set to expire 3 March 2010 (Kaplan, 2010, p. 36).  The process – initiated by a player strike in 1987 – took approximately six years to produce the 1993 collective [ READ MORE ]

A Week Off: A Study of the NFL’s CBA has Monopolized My Time

Dear Readers, I will not publish an article this week since I am in the process of completing an analysis of the NFL’s current collective bargaining process.  Next week, I will publish my findings in a series of weekly articles (in much the same way that I published my Hall of Fame statistical study). For [ READ MORE ]

Accounting in Sports Entrepreneurship and Event Production: How Similar, Dissimilar, and Interchangeable are Sponsorship Revenue/Value and Stockholder Equity?

  Introduction This week, General Motors took the last steps to finalize the sale of about $500 million of stock to SAIC Motor Corp. of China.  In addition to the deal with China’s largest car manufacturer, GM will sell an estimated total of $1 billion in shares to foreign investors, according to an article published [ READ MORE ]

Agents’ Panel Considers Available Options Regarding Marketing Agents Etc. and the Josh Luchs Situation (or, “Is There Significant Demand or Need for Revenue Sharing Between the NCAA and Student-Athletes?”)

  In an Associated Press article written by Michael Marot, titled “Agents’ panel not taking anything ‘off the table,’” and published 27 October 2010 on the NFL News online news service available through the mobile Android application dubbed “NFL News,” agents and student-athletes are increasingly targeted over time in a recent probe by the NCAA.  [ READ MORE ]

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