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The National Football League had its first outbreak of Covid-19 going into Week 4 of the league’s 2020 Season. Within a week, the Tennessee Titans had twenty organizational members tested positive for the Virus. It was also revealed that star Quarterback and former NFL Most Valuable Player, Cam Newton, from the New England Patriots tested […]
It was just a matter of time before companies would start looking to get out of major compensation obligations in their sponsorship agreements that had gone sour, using the novel coronavirus as a foundation for termination. The biggest sports sponsorship in question is probably Under Armour’s 15-year, $280 million Athletic Product and Sponsorship Agreement that […]
The Toyota Center and the Houston Rockets are suing their insurer, Affiliated FM Insurance Company (AFM), after AFM allegedly refused to honor the parties’ insurance agreement. The plaintiffs filed their complaint in Rhode Island State Court on July 15, about two weeks after three Minor League Baseball teams filed a similar complaint in Pennsylvania against […]