Webinar: Professional Sports Sidelined: Pivoting Through Crisis

Register here for the webinar on April 7, 2021 at 12pm ET

Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted the professional sports industry. Sports leagues have had to quickly adjust their business models, renegotiate collective bargaining agreements, shift their athletes to bubbles, force teams to renegotiate contracts, and play in empty stadiums. While some of these measures are temporary to accommodate the distinct needs of athletes, fans, and investors, their ripple effects will be felt for some time to come.

Join Harry Katz, the Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining at Cornell’s ILR School and Director of the Scheinman Institute, as he moderates a virtual discussion among distinguished Cornellians at the forefront of making some of these difficult decisions.

The webinar will be held on April 7, 2021 at 12pm ET. The panelists include:

• Gary Bettman, BS ’74, Commissioner of the National Hockey League
• Jacqueline Davidson, JD ’05, Director of Football Research, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
• Jeffrey Mishkin, JD ’72, Of Counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
• Joseph Carl Tretter, BS ’13’, Center, President, Cleveland Browns, NFL Players Association.

Register today at https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/overview/K040721a/