Speakers of Sport INC is appearing in court for the filing of a diversity suit against ProServ INC. In the suit one sport agency (Speakers) has brought about charges against another (ProServ) for tortious interference within a business relationship. Speakers INC claims that ProServ INC interfered with their representation of a highly profiled baseball catcher name Ivan Rodriguez by promising him false enrichments of money in endorsements. Ivan Rodriguez is a notable catcher who plays professional baseball for the Texas Rangers; in 1991 he signed numerous one-year contracts making Speakers his agent. During his period of alliance with Speakers INC, ProServ INC was attempting to enlarge their representation of players, so they decided to invite the highly profiled catcher to their office of business in Washington for a meeting, Rodriguez accepted the …show more content…
During the meeting with ProServ INC they promised Rodriguez the rewarding of $2 to $4 million in endorsements if he would sign with their agency. Rodriguez agreed to sign with the agency; by doing this he terminated his contract with Speakers INC. ProServ INC was not able to fulfill its promises to Rodriguez and within a year later he signed with another agent in which who landed him a five-year $42 million contract with the Rangers. A couple months later Speakers INC brought about a suit claiming that the promise of endorsements that ProServ had made to Rodriguez was fraud and the causation of Rodriguez to discontinue his contract with Speakers. The contract between Speakers and Rodriguez was made in Illinois. Speakers INC is an Illinois corporation and originally does business there, which means that the performance of
Major league scouts had come to watch a shortstop whom they had heard was an excellent fielder and consistent batter. They were quickly distracted from this responsibility however by the performance of the man on the pitcher’s mound. Fernando Valenzuela was a pudgy teenage boy who had grown up on the dusty baseball fields of northwestern Mexico. From a young age, he had dreamed of playing professional baseball and he was about to get his chance. Less than two years later, he became the only player to win the Cy Young award as well as the Rookie of the Year award...
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In Watts Los Angeles, California Rodriguez and his family first settled after his father refused to return to Mexico, having been in prison due to some false charges he was accused of. Watts being a black neighborhood caused his older brother Rano to constantly be bullied, jumped, or chased by the other children Rano took all the rage and pain out on young
Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez was a young Latino who had a passionate love for baseball. He was like any normal kid in the neighborhood apart from his strikingly athletic good looks, strong natural leadership and obsession with baseball. “Benny”, as his closest friends would call him, was a true hero to his inner circle of teammates. Especially to Scotty Smalls, as it was Benny who saved Scotty from a life sentence by retrieving his step father’s prized Babe Ruth autographed baseball from the jaws of the notorious junkyard “Beast” and making himself a neighborhood legend.
Although Rodriquez states”he is Chinese”, what he actually means is that Rodriguez is not Chinese nor are his parents, Rodriquez is actually Mexican.
The highest paid baseball player in Major League Baseball history is a Latino. Alex Rodriguez signed a seven-year contract for two hundred and fifty-six million dollars in 2000. This not only made him the richest baseball player ever, but also the richest Latin American athlete in history. The signing of Alex Rodriguez proved that Latin American athletes deserved to sign big money contracts just like the other players.
Many Dominicans dream to make it to the big leagues to break free from the inevitable poverty of their country. The road is long and requires many stops, such as training academies and the minor leagues, in order to reach Major League Baseball. While very few will reach the pinnacle, signing a contract with the training academies or minor leagues in itself provides a higher
Rodriguez vocalized, “Most of all I needed to hear my mother and father speak to me in a moment of seriousness in broken, sudden, heartbreaking English” (Rodriguez 6). He also states, “But I had no place to escape to with Spanish” (Rodriguez 22). Rodriguez feels his family no longer carries a connection with their private language and he no longer has a safe place to speak Spanish. Because Rodriguez realises this he states “No longer so close; no longer bound tight by the pleasing and the troubling knowledge of our public separateness” (Rodriguez 8). Since his family invited the public language in, they have let their private language out.
... all as a society can benefit from today. Such as, studying his literature, reading his autobiography, and looking up to him as a role model. Rodriguez is an educated man with a very good grasp on what life and the American society expect from all of us. Speak our language if you're going to live in our country. If one chooses not to make any sacrifice needed to accomplish the basic skills needed to learn English then your chances of belonging and succeeding will not happen easy. While our heritage and culture may remain forever tied to and expressed in our native or "home" language, only through the dominant language of our country (English in most cases) can we achieve a place in society that gives us a feeling that we belong amongst everyone else. The only way we can truly become a part of our community and fit in is to dominate the current spoken language.
In 2009, former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon was named as the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit brought on by former college and basketball players towards the NCAA and the Collegiate Licensing Company. The lawsuit was centered on the issue of the NCAA selling the “likeness” of formers athlete through rebroadcasts, DVDs, photos, video games, etc., without offering any compensation to the former players included. The NCAA requires any athlete that wishes to compete in a Division I sport to sign a Student-Athlete Statement, which declares their status as amateurs and agrees to give up any compensation for participating in the sport.
Yuniesky Betancourt. The man has become something of a joke of late, but that isn't really his fault. Sure, he's not a great professional baseball player, and his 2009 season was terrible by literally every metric, but it isn't his fault that Dayton Moore made a bad decision and decided to trade for him. Similarly, it isn't his fault that the Mariners will be paying him a million dollars in 2010, and another million in 2011. Over the course of his career, assuming that when his contract runs out in 2011 and his 2012 option is declined and whatever club might have him buys him out for 2 million, the guy looks to make about 17.4 million dollars. Now of course he isn't worth that amount to a ballclub, but that is a nice chunk of money; more than most can reasonably hope to earn in a lifetime. It has the potential to ensure his family's future for many generations, and his agent probably deserves some kind of accolade for landing him such a great deal.
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Steve Buckley is a sports columnist for the Boston Herald. In his columns on pablo Sandovals gut a weighty problem for the sox, Hanley Ramirez Pablo Sandovals should heed Dustin pedroia's words, and will David Ortiz's retirement tour end the playoffs the author uses no formal sources cited. Steve Buckley makes no attempt to cite the academic origin of the terms used in the columns or the other ideas used through out the columns. He does not go into the research that led to the conclusions. His goal in this brief article for the general reader is to inform and keep moving.
NCAA, O’Bannon filed an antitrust class action lawsuit against the NCAA. Stating that it was a violation of antitrust laws that Division I programs continue to use images of its former student athletes for commercial purposes. O’Bannon argues that upon graduation, a former player is entitled to compensation from the NCAA and the school for using their image and likeness for commercial gain. The NCAA, however, maintained that paying athletes would violate the idea of amateurism in sports. District Judge Claudia Wilken found that the NCAA’s rules and bylaws were a violation of antitrust laws. She ordered that the school should be allowed to pay for full cost of attendance to scholarship athletes, cover cost of living expenses that were not covered by scholarships in the past. In this ruling athletes are not paid to play but have most financial flexibility when deciding what school to
It was almost like he was learning two languages at once. This made it a bit more difficult for him and his parents to understand what the whole schooling/ education system was. Rodriguez spent a lot of his time reading while Hoggart says, “reading is a woman’s game.” (PDF). By him saying this, he is implying that men are more likely and more accustomed to do activities outside, while women are supposed to stay inside and read. Rodriguez’s parents did not understand this whole concept because of their lack of the language. This changed Rodriguez’s life in a very big and impactful way. The education helped Rodriguez in a weird way with him saying that “ If, because of my schooling, I had grown culturally separated from my parents, my education finally had given me ways of speaking and caring about that fact.” (355). This means that he had grown distant to his parent from being involved with his parents through the whole education process. It took time away from them being together, taught him different cultures, and made him make decision in which his parents were not fond