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Chapter 10 -Professional Sports
Two Forms of Governance - correct answer ✅Corporate Governance
Model
Single-entity Model
Corporate Governance Model - correct answer ✅Owners act like a
board of directors and the Commissioner acts like the CEO
Corporate Governance Model Example - correct answer ✅Big 4 Sports
Why is the corporate governance model not an exact relationship? -
correct answer ✅Commissioner does not have exact role as CEO
What power does the Commissioner (normally) have? - correct answer
✅Approval of player contracts
Disciplinary matters
Dispute resolution authority
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Rule making authority
What power does the commissioner have in terms of approval of player
contracts? - correct answer ✅Does not approve every individual
contract
Approval of the more controversial ones
Based around amount of money and when it is received
What are some disputes that a commissioner might have to resolve? -
correct answer ✅Owners vs. Owners
Owners vs. PA
Why does the commissioner have rule making authority? - correct
answer ✅maintain integrity of the game
What are the key groups involved in a corporate governance model? -
correct answer ✅League
Clubs
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Owners
Players
Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis - correct answer ✅first
commissioner in sports
appoint for baseball during the Black Sox scandal
What were Landis' positive impacts on the game? - correct answer
✅No player that throws a ball game will ever play again
Served for many years trying to clean up baseball
Ensured integrity of game was maintained
Baseball is more than a game
Why is Landis controversial? - correct answer ✅his name is on the MLB
MVP plague
he was racist
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Discussion 1: Should Landis' name be removed from the MVP plaque
and the Hall of Fame?
Single-entity Model - correct answer ✅A model of league ownership in
which the league is considered an independent entity to avoid antitrust
liability and to create some centralized fiscal control
Single-entity Model Examples - correct answer ✅MLS
WNBA
For whom, was the single-entity structure conceived? - correct answer
✅MLS
How does the structure of the MLS work? - correct answer ✅MLS
investors invest in the league as a single entity then operate a club
locally
MLS decides which team you get assigned to
Do not buy specific clubs
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