ABSTRACT
Contracts are fundamental to the professional sports landscape. These documents determine the rights and obligations between the athletes, coaches, general managers, and the organizations that employ them. Although contracts encompass many different types of business and personal obligations, sports contracts have certain unique and important characteristics. Terms are subject to the labor agreements negotiated between players’ unions and their respective leagues (also a type of contract) and to the salary control mechanisms found in many of those labor-management agreements. Additionally, sports contracts contain particular duties and prohibitions not normally found in a standard business contract. Finally, as personal services contracts, sports contracts enjoy particular remedies exist not available in most everyday contracts.
