Olympic Sport on the Precipice? How long can the Olympic rings, and the global athletics movement those rings represent, survive the spate of governance scandals now plaguing international sport? The urgency of this question became more apparent in the wake of the second report by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Independent Commission (IC) investigating the Russian—IAAF …
The Bock’s Score: Discontent and a Criminal Enterprise
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961) was John Steinbeck’s last novel. Steinbeck said that the wrote Discontent to address the moral degeneration of American culture during the 1950s and 60s. I am no John Steinbeck, and have never written a novel. However, I think chances are good that 2015 may in the future be …
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The Bock’s Score: A Question of Legacy
For most athletes who achieve a career of any substance the “legacy question” eventually becomes the defining ambition in their careers. Virtually all athletes ultimately seek to place themselves in the context of the history of their sport and to give an account of how they measure up. Think of Peyton Manning, Brett Favre, LeBron …
The Bock’s Score: Deflategate and Deterring Cheating in Sport
Tom Brady knew that the footballs he used in the first half of the AFC Championship Game were intentionally deflated in order to give him a competitive advantage, so concluded Ted Wells, the lawyer hired by the NFL to investigate the scandal dubbed “Deflategate.” Debating suspensions As quickly as the league moved to suspend Brady …
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The Bock’s Score: Pete Rose and a Lifetime Ban
Bill is a partner at Kroger Gardis and Regas, serves as the general counsel for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and is an expert analysis contributor at Sports Law360 They played a major league baseball game on Tuesday night, July 14, 2015, in Cincinnati, and Pete Rose took the field to the raucous cheers of the …