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Showing posts with label soccer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soccer. Show all posts
Monday, September 7, 2026

UEFA-FIFA football war spills into U.S. courts as European lawyers wield discovery 'superpower'

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A powerful American legal tool is a weapon of choice in a brewing legal battle between two of the world's most powerful transnational sp...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

Conservancy loss illustrates ongoing impotence of environmental protection right in state constitution

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Franklin Park postcard, c. 1930-1945 Boston Public Library , public domain In the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Wednesday, environmen...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Lichtman lecture unpacks politics of World Cup

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Prof. Steven Lichtman spoke at UMass Law Thursday on "Soccer and American Exceptionalism: A Political Science Preview of World Cup 202...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Author of 'Surviving Your Friend's Cancer,' law alumna Kayleigh Ellison made world better, brighter

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Kayleigh's relentless smile, from the UMass Dartmouth soccer roster I'm sad to hear and to share news of the death of Kayleigh Dawn...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

'Liberal Playmaker' goes Substack; Boston awaits FIFA

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" The Liberal Playmaker ," a.k.a. Jose Benavides, is now on Substack . Benavides, a Texas attorney , past  co-author , and excelle...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Apple Music drops Lady Gaga, Leo Messi interviews; L.A. producer Steele was behind the scenes

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Morgan Steele , my daughter, based in Los Angeles, has worked lately on some star-studded and classified projects, two now public. This (bel...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Texas attorney launches football (soccer) podcast

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A Texas attorney , co-author , and former student, Jose Benavides officially has launched his football (soccer)-and-politics podcast, The L...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Parks group challenges soccer stadium under state constitutional right to environmental conservation

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A Boston lawsuit pits parks against soccer, tying in knots fans of both such as me. The Emerald Necklace Conservancy  on February 20 sued t...
Thursday, September 14, 2023

U.S. Soccer, FIFA lose antitrust appeal; defense shows short-sighted strategy to develop soccer in America

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Cristiano Ronaldo plays for Real Madrid against Barcelona in 2011. Jan S0L0 via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 U.S. Soccer and the Fédération Internat...
Monday, August 28, 2023

Can Arsenal supporter be impartial in football inquiry?

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A curious story of lawyering ethics and football allegiance broke in mid-May, just after I went off contract with UMass Law and left the Sta...
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Nike, Puma stop making shoes with kangaroo leather

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Nike and Puma both announced this year that they will stop using kangaroo leather to make shoes. I didn't know that kangaroo leather wa...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Politics complicates football: Sympathy for ... Iran

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As advertised , last week in Kraków, Poland, I had the great privilege to talk law, development, and the FIFA World Cup, with the group sta...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

With FIFA World Cup under way in Qatar, law students study sport and soft power, law and development

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I'll be talking law, development, and the World Cup today in Kraków, Poland. Thanks to the American Law Scientific Circle (KNPA) and Am...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Qatar World Cup opens Sunday; meanwhile, Netflix series stokes embers of FIFA corruption scandal

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I visited CONMEBOL HQ in Asunción, Paraguay, in October. The South American angle on the FIFA corruption scandal was engagingly fictionaliz...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

UK orders commission to study women's football; rising TV prices warn of commercial monopolization

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Karen Carney in 2019 (James Smed CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) The UK has announced "an in-depth review into the future of domest...