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Eldon L. Ham has been nationally quoted in the New York Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, CBS Chicago, New York Daily News, ESPN.com, and others.

Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal

Unintended Consequences: Baseball, antitrust, and the residue of design

Chicago Sun-Times

College sports quandary

Chicago Sun-Times

Protest, dissent have been part of Chicago history since Washington Square Park's heyday

Chicago Sun-Times

Cubs vs. Dodgers in Japan: Remembering a barnstorming tour by U.S. players in 1934

Chicago Sun-Times

How the NCAA began losing its grip on 'amateurism'

Chicago Sun-Times

During Black History Month, remember stories of Black athletes who influenced America

Chicago Sun-Times

Spring training is here. Cue the lawyers and accountants.

Chicago Sun-Times

What's the future of the NFL's commitment to diversity?

Chicago Sun-Times

When sports turn violent, it can lead to legal action

Chicago Sun-Times

Heisman Trophy should once again require player 'integrity'

Chicago Sun-Times

'Monkey trial' of 1925, brought to life in Goodman's 'Inherit the Wind,' echoes today's culture wars

Chicago Sun-Times

How the old USFL emerged, and how Trump helped kill it

Chicago Sun-Times

Peaceful protests and activism live up to Olympic ideals

Chicago Sun-Times

Gambling on games skyrockets, and that's hazardous to athletes

Chicago Sun-Times

What the great Willie Mays lived to see

Chicago Sun-Times

Muhammad Ali's defeat of Sonny Liston in Lewiston, Maine was a knockout for the ages

Chicago Sun-Times

NFL draft day: How teams legally collude to restrict draftees' rights and choices

Chicago Sun-Times

As we descend into March Madness, a few words about the NCAA's slow demise

Chicago Sun-Times

A Jewish Chicagoan named Abe Saperstein left an indelible mark on today's NBA

Chicago Sun-Times

An Apple commercial and 'Where's the beef?' helped transform the Super Bowl in 1984

ABA Journal

Carnegie and Me: Refuting the culture war on American libraries

Chicago Sun-Times

Sports history's biggest flubs and blunders

Chicago Sun-Times

How baseball endured through World War II

Chicago Sun-Times

The Michigan sign-stealing case shows Americans are fed up with cheating

Chicago Sun-Times

Baseball broadcasting history includes Carlton Fisk and Chicago's very own WGN

Chicago Sun-Times

Among baseball's greatest home runs, include one by Cubs' Dave Kingman

Chicago Sun-Times

Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and the home run chase of 1998

Illinois State Bar Association

Unnecessary Roughness: Sports Injuries and the Contact Sports Exception

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago's All-Star 'game of the century'

Chicago Sun-Times

Fixing the Ja Morant problem

Chicago Sun-Times

How William Wrigley Jr. brought soap, gum and Chicago baseball broadcasting together

ABA Journal

Fair game: Does the fair use doctrine apply to Andy Warhol's pop art?

CBS Chicago

Athlete Free Speech—It's Not The Standing, Stupid

CBS Chicago

Fenwick, Justice, Logic All Lose

Chicago Daily Law Bulletin

Can baseball help break impasse on Judge Garland?

Law 360

How 4th Circ. Failed To Clarify Athlete Disability Rights

CBS Chicago

Why The NFL Needs To Lose The Roger Goodell-Tom Brady Standoff

Political Mavens

Pitchers, Catchers, and Lawyers Report: Have the Little Leagues Made It to the Big Leagues?

CBS Chicago

The Patriots' Tangled Web Of Innocence, Lies And Cover-Ups

SunSentinel

Pro athletes should speak out on controversial issues

CBS Chicago

NFL and Undue Process

CBS Chicago

Why Roger Goodell Should Resign

Berkeley Journal of Entertainment and Sports Law

Pretext: The Dark Side of Baseball

CBS Chicago

Is Don Sterling A Canary In The NBA Gold Mine?

CBS Chicago

How A-Rod Could Be Guilty And Still Win

CBS Chicago

Sosa-McGwire: The Shock & Awe Summer Of 1998

CBS Chicago

How The Great Baseball Oxymoron Undermines America

New York Times

Give the Ref a Gavel

CBS Chicago

Muhammad And Me

The Philadelphia Inquirer

'Death' to Penn State football?

CBS Chicago

Sandusky Said 'Way, Way Too Much'

CBS Chicago

Feds Could Get Involved With Penn State

CBS Chicago

Have The NBA Players Met The Real Enemy?

St. Louis Post Dispatch

Celebrating 90 Years of [World Series] Radio Broadcasts

Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal

Broadcast 90 Years Ago was First to Help Listeners 'See' [World] Series

CBS Chicago

The Scarlet Number—How the Maris Home Run Record Could Help Expunge the Steroid Era

Political Mavens

King James: The Next Michael Jordan?

Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal

How to infuse hope in the Big Dance

Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law

Hardball Free Agency—The Unintended Demise of Salary Arbitration in Major League Baseball: How the Law of Unintended Consequences Crippled the Salary Arbitration Remedy—and How to Fix It

Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal

A Few Ways To Deal With The Square Pegs Of Academia

Political Mavens

All-Star Boondoggle

Illinois State Bar Association

Must Violence Among Athletes Be A Crime That Pays?

Political Mavens

The Mitchell Report

Political Mavens

The NFL Slob Rule

Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal

An Indisputable Need For Replay

Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal

Crafting A Symbolic Nod To Pre-Steroid Era

Political Mavens

Stern Rules: How to Fix the Suns-Spurs Dilemma

Political Mavens

Jackie Robinson Did Not Change Baseball?

Political Mavens

The Hypocrisy of Cooperstown: Why Does it Matter?

Chicago Tribune

The True Meaning Behind Ozzie-gate

Baltimore Sun

Beyond Baseball's Mischief

Chicago Tribune

Baseball Trespassers

Marquette Sports Law Review

The True Precedent of Baseball in Law

Cincinnati Enquirer

Who's Not on First? 3 Steps to Save Baseball

Pioneer Press

State Ought to Outlaw Athletes Who Are Thugs

Chicago Daily Law Bulletin

A Baseball Lands Where it Will—But Who Owns It?

Seton Hall Journal of Sports Law

Disabled Athletes: A Last Vestige of Court Tolerated Discrimination?

Chicago Tribune

The Race Card is a Joker: A Final Spin on the Sprewell Lesson

Chicago Daily Law Bulletin

Olympic Dilemma: The Harding Controversy

Trial Magazine

Steroids: Wrestling With the Issues

Illinois State Bar Association

Richard Dent v. NFL: Private Associations and Fundamental Fairness