By Bella DiPalermo When the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) All-Star Dearica Hamby filed a federal lawsuit alleging pregnancy discrimination and retaliation, she did more than bring a personal claim. She revealed a structural tension at the heart of professional sports: the uneasy coexistence between collective bargaining and individual statutory rights. Hamby’s case, which survived…
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Sign to Survive: Arbitration at the Pace of Formula One
By Ryan Zaitoun How much is seven-tenths of a second worth? In Formula One, it can be close to $10 million. Formula One prides itself as the pinnacle of global motorsport, consisting of (as of January 2, 2026) eleven teams, each with two drivers, racing the fastest single-seat open-wheeled cars on tracks across the world….
Salary Arbitration in Baseball Contracts
By: Caitlen Moser, Junior Staffer In December 2023, two-way baseball player Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers agreed to the largest player contract in sports history, with Ohtani set to earn seven hundred million dollars over the next ten years. Unique in the modern era, Ohtani is both one of the best pitchers and…
The Arbitration Brief 