When I first heard about sports law, I assumed these rules/ concepts were an entirely new set of principles from the legal concepts. However, after reading this article I learned that I was completely wrong. Overall, there is really no such thing as “the law of sports”. There are no separate rules that exists for sports law and no laws existing that can be categorized as an independent field of law. Nonetheless, sports law incorporates areas of law and brings them together in a very unique way. I learned that problems such as contracts, antitrust, labor laws, and torts are very common in sports law. A tort law is something that applies very heavily to sports. This is due to the fact that sports such as football and hockey have a probable risk
