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10 Prof. Sports & L. 1 (2019-2020)

handle is hein.journals/profsptla10 and id is 1 raw text is: Route To: / / PROFESSIONAL SI March-April 2019 * Volume 10, Issue 1 and the Addressing The Rsk of a New Class of Plaintiff: The Regge Bush Case y: John E. Tyrrell, Patrick J. Mc- Stravick, and Alexander M. Shaen of Ricci Tyrrell Johnson & Grey On June 12, 2018, a St. Louis jury found the St. Louis Rams liable for Reggie Bush's 2015 knee injury and awarded him $4.95 million in compensatory damages and $7.5 million in punitive damages, for a total award of $12.5 million. While the verdict signaled the end of the St. Louis iteration of the now Los Angeles Rams, it gave rise to a new liability risk for stadium operators and professional teams, while also creating a new class of plaintiffs: professional athletes injured by a stadium condition. On November 1, 2015, the San Fran- cisco 49ers played against the St. Louis Rams at what was then known as the Edward Jones Dome. Reggie Bush was a player for the San Francisco 49ers. Dur- ing the first quarter of the game, Reggie Bush was pushed out-of-bounds and his momentum took him beyond the bench area and onto a section of concrete that ringed the perimeter of the stadium playing field. Reggie Bush slipped and fell backwards on the concrete surface, resulting in a torn ACL in his left knee. This knee injury effectively ended Reggie Bush's playing career. In 2016, Reggie Bush filed a lawsuit against the St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority (RSA), the St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission (CVC), and the St. Louis See ADDRESSING on Page 23 A Brief Legal Overview of eSports By Elizabeth G. McCurrach of BakerHostetler he lucrative nature of the sports in- dustry is no secret. The Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the World Series and the World Cup are all advertiser's dreams, with captive audiences locked in and immersed in every second of the action. But the popularity of traditional sports is slowly being challenged by a relative newcomer: eSports. With eSports viewership cresting into hundreds of millions of viewers and arenas routinely selling out tournaments, revenues and investors are growing expo- nentially with regulation trying to keep pace. The legal issues raised with this rapid evolution are myriad. What are eSports? ESports are organized multiplayer video game competitions, amongst players either individually or as part of a formal profes- sional team. The first known video game competition occurred at Stanford in 1972, with the winner rewarded a year's subscrip- tion to Rolling Stone. Today gaming is more lucrative; the Fortnite World Cup has a $30 million prize pool, with the solo champion guaranteed at least $3 million. Although always present in gamer cul- See A BREF on Page 25 Worker's Comp Finding That Player Didn't Pursue Work Affirmed 27 COPYRIGHT C 2019 HACKNEY PUBLICATIONS (HACKNEYPUBLICATIONS.COM)

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