A little Law fun...

You know how crazy things have been? Crazy! Going and flowin and mowin like no ones business. My managers are having fun. We are working hard. Quizes, exams presentations, raining out ide, yea yea but its game time and I am lovin it. We had fall brek tuhs past weekend but fall break really means tons and tons of practices and studying to catch up and studying for exams that will be comming soon, like more sports law exam, which is actaully really interesting.

Who knew that sports gets a way with so many things. Let me introduce you to someone. This is Sherman: He made the smart descition to make the Sherman antitrust act







The man was smart enoug that he thought the market needed commpetition. Thus he did not one team owning the market, like Kobe Bryant in the NBA. He did not want a monopoly like Microsoft.



So he finally descided to do something about it and in 1890 passed the Sherman Anti Trust Act. His "act," his little dancing routine, said that a firm cannot collude to control the market nor take control by itself, thus a monopoly. Dang, dont we love that game?

BUT, sports is different. Sports can break all the rules. of course,c asue its sports, and its fun, right? So Sports CAN collude, CAN control, and CAN monopolize. All the teams work together to make a league and keep others in the same sport out of the market. They also allow owners to work together and talk about prices and how they will draft and all that crazy stuff that would be illegal in any other context! But they do it...and get away with it...and have actual labor law exsemptions from the US Supreme Court. So its pretty legit geting away with type of stuff. The only stuff that really has any weight in gold. The logic???...that its pro-competative. So if hitting my brother in the face is pro-competative because it it builds caracter and caracter means a better person thus more competition in this world...then do it! And that is the message of the day...as long as it is pro-competative, you can get away with everything. YeeHawww!

Michigan Madness

Today was a wickedly long day...so much! Not onyl did we ahve practice but we had to get ready for Michigan Madness. It went pretty well. Besides the organization aspect wich could have been better, it went well. Gates opened at 8 and tehy were entertained by different htings. Then the actaul show started, and wow was it a show! The palyers came down one at a time paired with a women player from the stands. They were going with music and had spot lights and everything and it was super dramitized it was hilarious. Then the coaches came out...dancing. It was SO MUCH FUNNY HAHAHA. Coach Dunn was classic and Coach Beilein could ahve put a little bit more effort on them moves but it was still a riot.

THen we had the tests the fun part. We had a skills contest, with stuff on the floor that the palyers ahd to go threw, kinda like the NBA skills contest in All Star weekend. That went allright, even tho our Walk On, Corey Person started making excuses about why his team did so bad. I still dont know how he was Valicvictorian at his high school.








THen we had a three point contest. That was fun. Stu was on fire...of course. But then Manny beat out the competition in his chill and ice-vein fashion, hitting them at the end were it counted to win the contest.



And then tehre was the dunk contest...oh that dunk contest. I had to man the first two, making sure my managers were gettgin everything done at the skills contest and the three point had to use some serious managerial doeses to get it done right. But then the slam dunk...yea, since I just opted out of the dunk contest I could just watch, and was it a sight to behold. (on the vids I am standing on the half court line by the ball rack, just incase you were looking for me) First off, I have no idea how EVERYONE made their first dunk (expect for peedi´s first, but that was probobly because he blinked before he jumped or somthin). Darious had to have the most creative. He hit his first one off the shot clock for the dunk and the second one he went up like he was about to dunk the ball, then tossed the ball off to the side only to grab another one from mid air that came out of no where and dunked that one instead! It was rediculosu! Where did that ball come from!...and then we see freshman MatT Volchrich who looks like a 16 year old giggling in the stands like a 13yr old girl who knows a secret cause he made a perfect toss from 10 rows up in the stands. Hahaha. And the poeple loved it! They were going nuts, and rightly so! And so with all the momentum against him, the cold-blooded and stone-hearted Zach Novak stepped up the thre three point line on the corner, simply toss teh ball up and then jumped with his awesome white man hopes and willed, willed the ball threw his legs and into the basket...and the rest was history. THE rest was history. Beautiful. And with that I leave you with this footage. Beautiful. Tore the house down. Down. By a white guy. Unbeleivable. Video of the month bar none.









read about it here, here, here, and here
What did you think about Michigan Madness? Things we could change in the future? Answer with your opinion in the comment box!

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Michigan State game

This game was super sweeet! I left early saturday morning. We got there and met a few people from the community and then we went out to find out tickets. The way it works there is that a student ticket is built into the student ID card. So when you go buy the ticket you are actually borrowing the ID. So we did that and then we went to the stadium. But ti took forever since the place was so freakin big! Its huge! It remindes me of TEXAS A&M cause its so freakin big. But we alas got there to the stadium.

Allison and Kevin

State Fans getting Drunk!

I am going to own this place. me and my Maize

Kevin is about to attack that green stadium haha

There was a lot of trash everywhere, really unbeleivable especially considering how much we take care of our Michigan Stadium. Then we launched areselves up to the top of the stadium and it was getting LOUD. We jsut scored the first 3 points. We got way up there and just mingled with all these green fans. it was hilarious to see how drunk all these fans are, and this is in the midst of much more rigorous enforcement my officers there and the entire undergraduate student population were all swaying in unison. And it was cold! It wa cloudy and windy and then threw the game it began to rain every time we got the ball in the 4th and every time we scored it would stop an the sun would come out because God was happy with our scores. But that didnt come too often and was saved for the end...

The entrance to the student section was well, uh...stinky

way too much adverstizing and
sponsorships at the game.
felt like I was at a minor league

baseball game holy cow

Then there was the game, oh that game. We played bad. Actually, that is an understatement. We did not play at all. we were just watching the big screen and looking at the grass and then feeling cold and wet and probobly calling up to the press box every now and then. Perhaps checking our fantasy teams. We were doing everything but playing football. It was terrible. Any because of that the Spartans worked themselves up, point by point, untill it was 20-6. This was probobly the best part. They were going nuts every time they scored like "Wow! We are actually winning! Yea, you suck, Michigan! You guys are terrible! Take that!.....oh no, what is going on, why are they letting us do that. Nonono! This is just gonna hurt so much more when they come back and beat us at the end like they always do...why are they lettting us run ip the score like this? Corn. This is not good. This is going to hurt like jimmy sitting on a catfish." That is exactly what they said. They were happy and then sad, went up hi, and then crashed low when they realized the reality of the situation. And then it happened...with about 4 minutes left in the game, we made a very important desition: We descided to play. And so we did, and we dominated, and with 4 minutes we ralled back in super hero fashion, slashing ourway threw without contest. It began to pour rain like no ones business, and that big curtain of rain came and just poured buckets on us freezing fans and daring heros on the field. But we perceviered. And in brilliant and story book ending, we scored the game wining touchdown with 0:02 on the clock. And to everyone´s expectations and horror, Michigan was back int he game...just like everyone knew was going to happen. That was what made this game so memorable. i have never seen this before, such utter attitude of defeatment, pushing the giant bear while he is asleep, laughing at him all he wants, and then when he rolls his big head and wiggles his nose, the little drawf sheaks in horror. But he hasnt even awoken. Our damage has been done; we have done our intimidation. Unfortunately the giant bear let the dwarf get away as we lost to ourselves, throwing a terrible interception in the end zone to loose the game. But dont worry, that big bad bear will be back, and it will crush that dwarf with the heal of his foot. I am done.

Video Highlights here

My buddy there wearing #83, Conover

Watch the score get worse

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