Can Rule-Abiding Players Sue Alleged Cheaters?
Imagine if Mike Greenwell sued Jose Canseco for the loss of endorsements that Greenwell would have received had he won Major League Baseball’s MVP award in 1988, rather than the artificially enhanced Canseco. And what if Kurt Warner, Marshall Faulk and some of their St. Louis Rams teammates sued the New England Patriots on the grounds that the team’s alleged filming of Rams’ practice sessions caused the Rams to lose Super Bowl XXVI and the accompanying endorsement windfall. These scenarios appear far-fetched – unless you’re an English soccer fan. English soccer clubs Sheffield United and West Ham recently settled a dispute over West Ham’s use of ineligible players during the 2007 season. One of the ineligible players, striker Carlos Teves scored 7 goals in the team’s last 10 games – including a goal in the final match against Manchester United which bumped Sheffield United from England’s top division, the Premier League. West Ham was subsequently fined by the Premier League for using t
