The Third Circuit delivered a victory Tuesday to a New Jersey horse racing group that has sought millions in damages from the National Football League and other sports leagues in a long-running legal saga over sports gambling.
Read moreThe acrimonious relationship between the San Francisco 49ers and its home city of Santa Clara reached new heights Tuesday night after the city voted to strip the National Football League team of its rights to manage the stadium in which it plays.
Read moreWith approval from the Department of Justice, Sinclair Broadcasting Group completed acquisition of 21 Fox Regional Sports Networks and Fox College Sports from The Walt Disney Company on Friday to the tune of $9.6 billion.
Read moreFrom mid-August until the beginning of February, millions of people don their best outfits for a church-like experience: watching Sunday football. That is, of course, if the NFL game is being carried on a local TV station or those devout fans have signed up for a satellite football package.
Read moreCollege football players are not NCAA employees entitled to minimum wage, the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday, dashing student athletes’ hopes of getting more than scholarship money out of the multibillion-dollar-per-year college sports industry.
Read moreFormer University of Arizona football coach Richard Rodriguez maintained an autocratic cabal among top assistants, guided by a manual called his self-authored “hideaway book,” expecting them to maintain secrecy about an extramarital affair, cater to his personal needs and protect his reputation, one assistant claimed in a federal lawsuit Thursday.
Read moreA federal judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit over the Oakland Raiders’ move to Las Vegas, finding the city of Oakland failed to show the National Football League’s relocation rules and 32-team structure are anticompetitive.
Read moreRiding a wave of widespread Italian enthusiasm to be an Olympic host, Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo won the vote Monday to stage the 2026 Winter Games.
Read moreDemanding damages from comedian Kevin Hart, a senior citizen said she was minding her own business around the corner from Carnegie Hall when Hart’s security guard knocked her to the ground.
Read moreThe owners of Maximum Security, the horse controversially disqualified from this year’s Kentucky Derby, brought a federal lawsuit against the state’s Horse Racing Commission seeking to restore the horse’s victory.
Read moreA Portuguese man acted in bad faith by trying to trademark the name of Brazil’s Neymar while also claiming that he did not grasp the soccer player’s stardom, the European General Court ruled Tuesday.
Read moreEarlier this year, the Justice Department reversed course on a nearly decade-old policy that had ushered in non-sports online gaming. New Jersey brought a federal complaint Tuesday to learn why.
Read moreIn a reversal where the court itself noted the potential for exploitation by usurious lenders, the Third Circuit ruled Friday that NFL players were entitled to trade their shares of a $1 billion concussion settlement for a quick cash payout.
Read moreA seniors condominium that carved out prime-time pool hours for the Orthodox Jewish men in its community plainly discriminated against women, the Third Circuit ruled Monday.
Read moreRetired outfielder Lenny Dykstra sued his former New York Mets teammate Ron Darling for defamation Tuesday, claiming Darling’s new book falsely accuses Dykstra of hurling racial slurs at a black Boston Red Sox pitcher during a World Series game.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene in a copyright dispute involving a 1984 photo of Michael Jordan dunking a basketball in which the photographer claimed Nike ripped him off with its famous “Jumpman” logo.
Read moreNew England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and more than a dozen other men are imploring a Florida judge to prevent the release of videos that police claim depict them getting pleasured by prostitutes at a day spa.
Read moreAbandoning a policy that allows for the dismissal of convictions if the defendant dies mid-appeal, the highest court in Massachusetts reinstated the murder conviction of deceased Patriots player Aaron Hernandez on Wednesday.
Read moreA sweater manufacturer is crying foul in federal court over the NBA’s attempt to honor Notorious B.I.G., claiming the league and retailers appropriated copyrighted designs that the late rapper popularized.
Read moreFacing an international arrest warrant in his home country of Turkey, basketball star Enes Kanter has not relented on his major offensive against the country’s strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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