Hey, everybody, this is Richard Dich, and welcome to the sports media podcast.

My producer is Patrick Antonetti.

One guest on this podcast, but man, I really, really enjoyed this conversation.

One of my favorite colleagues from Sports Illustrated. Michael McCann is a legal analyst and senior

sports legal reporter at Sportico. He is a professor of law at the University of New Hampshire's

Franklin Pierce School of Law, where he's also the director of the Sports and Entertainment

Law Institute. There is so much going on in terms of the intersection between sports and legal. And nobody better,

in my opinion, in the United States, in terms of writing the stuff on a immediate basis,

than Michael McCann, who just does a great job of explaining these complex issues in

layperson terms. So we talk about Jack Del Rio, got really, really into that.

His team imposing a fine on what he had to say and the legal issues surrounding when a team

does it versus the league, whether he could appeal, how this sort of intersects other sports

organizations. What could happen if, let's say, the athletic tried to

find me for something, I said. A lot of interesting stuff there. We got into the PGA tour in

LIV golf in terms of each side, perhaps thinking about suing on antitrust and contract claims,

talked about Deshawn Watson caseny rentes is amazing reporting in

the new york times and where that stands and um how the browns really have no recourse to

to avoid that trade and and what could come next finish up with uh johnson versus the ncdb a

massive case before the third circuit that could really, really impact college athletics.

I talked about the states that have enacted legislation banning transgender students from participating in sports teams at public high schools and where that may be going.

And then we finish up with the women's NCAA basketball tournament and what recourse

some of these athletes might have in that tournament is woefully sort of underserved in terms

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