The strange thing about the sports industry is its enormous body of privately-created-law - i.e., law other than statutes and regulations enacted or adopted by various governmental bodies. Participants in the day-to-day life of the sports world are even more preoccupied with the large array of privately-written rules defining what they can and cannot do. These rules include those contained in constitutions and by-laws governing professional sports leagues and individual sports tours, collective bargaining agreements between leagues and players associations, agent regulations promulgated by player unions, and the standard contracts that shape hundreds of different types of relationships in sports.
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