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Formula One: Balancing Safety & Entertainment
I came across this article highlighting recent issues with Formula One red flag decisions. This article goes more in-depth with the three red flag calls, how they impacted the race and the merits of the decisions. At particular issue is the second red flag. When it happened, Verstappen was the race leader with an 8 […]
UFC & WWE Merger
This kind of came out of left field, and the news that it was a possibility came only days before it was a reality. Here’s a link to a short Reuters article disclosing the merger. This will likely have a huge impact on Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), since the UFC is the central promotion in […]
Rigging Laws and Reality TV
Reality shows like Survivor revolutionized televised contests in the early 2000s. However, shortly after the first season, issues with rigging these type of shows already began to surface. Stillman, a contestant on season 1 of Survivor, sued the production team, alleging that they had rigged the contest to get her voted off the show instead […]
Illegal Game Show Practices
On Tuesday, Sara, Faustine and I will be leading a discussion on the law surrounding game shows. We will begin with a game of jeopardy with questions relating to game shows, and then move on to a more in depth discussion on the central legal issues. The two main focuses of the follow-up discussion will […]