Articles

The following list provides an overview of real estate law and sports law articles authored or co-authored by Martin J. Greenberg.

Featured Article

• Opinion: Why sports stars should not be role models (August 5, 2013) – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Articles

• Consent to Interview – Best Practices (March 25, 2013)
• Wisconsin Concussion Law is a No Brainer (March 5, 2013)
• Opinion: Behind the Bielema Jump, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (December 19, 2012)
• Rollover Clauses Still Utilized In College Coaching Contracts (November 1, 2012)
• At Last – Rulings in the Williams v. Smith and Marist v. Brady cases (September 24, 2012)

For the Record: The Official Newsletter of the National Sports Law Institute

• Good Drafting Makes Good Contracts, Volume 18, No. 3 (July-September 2007)
• College Athletics – Chasing the Big Bucks, Volume 19, No. 2 (April – June 2008)
• Rich Rodriquez – Jumping Has Legal Consequences, Volume 19, No. 4 (October – December 2008)
• Interview – You May Be Fired, Volume 20, No. 1 (January – March 2009)
• Leaping Without Looking: MOUs Create Risks When Universities Do Not Know Their Legal Significance, Vol. 21, No. 1 (January – March 2010)
• The Use of Clawback Clauses in College Coaches’ Contracts, Volume 21, No. 2 (April – June 2010)
• Head Coach’s Authority to Hire Assistant Coaches and the Necessity of a Paper Trail – The Jimmy Williams Case, Volume 21, No. 3 (July – September 2010)
  

Marquette Sports Law Review

• An Opportunity of a Lifetime: Opportunity Zones and How They Can Disrupt the Sports Facility Financing Equation, Volume 32, Issue 1, Martin J. Greenberg and Michael R. Gavin (2021)
• The Baylor Clause: Report Or Be Fired, Volume 30, Issue 2, Martin J. Greenberg, Andrew Mentzer, and Madeline Wergin (2020)
• Athletic Directors, Volume 26, Issue 2, Article 18, Greenberg, Martin J. and Evrard, Alexander W. (2016)
• 2014 Master of the Game Award Acceptance Speech, Volume 26, Issue 1, Article 2, Greenberg, Martin, J. (2015)
• The Disappearance of a Dinosaur: Reassignment Clauses are Losing Their Footing in College Coaches’ Contracts, Volume 25, Issue 1, Article 4, Greenberg, Martin J. and Leibsohn, Brandon (2014)
• You Get Hired to Get Fired, Volume 24, Issue 1 (p. 141) Greenberg, Martin J. and Gruber, Steven D. (2013)
• Coaches’ Contracts: Terminating A Coach Without Cause and the Obligation to Mitigate Damages, Volume 23, Issue 2 (p. 339), Greenberg, Martin J. and Paul, Djenane (2013)
• College Coaching Contracts: A Practical Perspective, Volume 1, 1991, Issue 2, Article 5
• Representation of College Coaches in Contract Negotiations, Volume 4, 1993, Issue 1, Article 5
• College Coaching Contracts Revisited: A Practical Perspective, Volume 12, 2001, Issue 1, Article 7
• Symposium: International Sports Law & Business in the 21^st Century – Sports Facility Financing and Development Trends in the United States, 2004, 15 Marquette Sports Law Review 93
• Termination of College Coaching Contracts: When Does Adequate Cause to Terminate Exist and Who Determines its Existence? Volume 17, 2006, Issue 1, Article 8
• A Study of Division I Assistant Football and Men’s Basketball Coaches’ Contracts, Volume 18, 2007, Issue 1, Article 3
• Non-Relocation Agreements in Major League Baseball: Comparison, Analysis and Best Practices Clauses, Volume 21, Fall 2010, Number 1
• Sports.comm: It Takes a Village to Build a Sports Facility, Volume 22, Fall 2011, Number 1
  

The Wisconsin Lawyer

• Commercial Lease – Listing Contracts – Dangers for the Unwary, December, 1993, p. 12
• Greenberg on Greenberg, October 1998
  

Greenberg’s Coaching Corner

• A New Standard Contract Disclosure in College Coaching Contracts (March 24, 2022)
• Missouri State University’s Unique Rollover Clause: A Tournament Bid to Extend the Contract Term for Five Years (December 27, 2021)
• David Beaty: Colleges Trying to Convert Not-For-Cause Firings to For-Cause-Firings (August 19, 2021)
• Gregg Marshall: How Universities Should Respond to Allegations of Coaching Abuse (January 3, 2021)
• A Financial Divorce – When a Coach is Terminated Without Cause, presentation given during the National Sports Law Institute’s fall 2020 annual conference (October 16, 2020)
• DABO SWINNEY: A New Contract for a New Coaching Landscape (July 1, 2019)
• Earl Holmes: A Recap of the Appellate Court Decision (March 1, 2019)
• Separation Agreements: When a University and a Coach Divorce (July 15, 2018) (with Thom Park)
• Earl Holmes vs. FAMU: How a Contract Term can be Cut Short by University Rules and Regulations (January 3, 2018)
• Search Firms (July 1, 2017)
• Rutgers Settles Randall’s Abuse Lawsuit (April 1, 2017)
• Joe Wickline: To Call Plays or Not to Call Plays, that was the Question at the Forefront of Wickline’s Contract Battle with Oklahoma State (January 9, 2017)
• Coaches Performance Evaluations (September 29, 2016)
• Open Letter to President Mark Emmert of the NCAA – Abuse Must End (June 14, 2016)
• Bo Pelini Firing Outrage (Non-disparagement Clauses in College Coaching Contracts) (April 6, 2016)
• Trademarks in College Coaching (Article) (Addendums) (December 21, 2015)
• A Clash of the Titans (November 1, 2015)
• Morals Clauses in College Coaching Contracts (September 3, 2015)
• Ethical Considerations in the Representation of College Coaches (Presentation, July 10, 2015 as part of the Current Ethical Issues in Sports Law Seminar, hosted by the Sports Law Alumni Association).
• College Coaches – Representation Agreements (May 15, 2015)
• Disability and Death Clauses in College Coaches’ Contracts (March 30, 2015)
• The Buyout Game – An Opinion (February 25, 2015)
• Buyouts – Coaching Free Agency (January 2, 2015)
• Zero Tolerance – Abuse Must End – An Opinion (October 1, 2014)
• Beckie Francis Sues Oakland for a Non-redacted Investigation Report that Led to Her Termination (August 5, 2014)
• Restrictive Covenants in College Coaches’ Contracts (July 11, 2014)
• Checklist for Negotiating and Drafting of Coaches’ Employment Agreements (June 11, 2014)
• Representations and Warranties in College Coaching Contracts (June 3, 2014)
• Tough Love – Crossing the Line, Presentation originally given at the 2014 Depaul Journal of Sports Law and Contemporary Problems Symposium on The Business of College Athletics, held on MARCH 7, 2014 (May 6, 2014)
• Summer Camps – A Coach’s Primer (April 10, 2014)
• Bill Gibbons: A Student-Athlete Finally Takes the Coach to Court (February 6, 2014)
• Coaching Free Agency Has a Price: Liquidated Damages Upheld in the Geno Ford / Kent State Case (December 3, 2013)
• Pray To Play: The Termination Of Beckie Francis (October 23, 2013)
• Coach Accountability Reduces Vicarious Liability (September 6, 2013)
• Mike Rice, Jr., For Cause or Not For Cause — You Make the Call (August 9, 2013)
• Steve Alford – Postscript – An Expensive Buyout Provision (July 29, 2013)
• Steve Alford – Coaching Free Agency is Just a Matter of Money (June 24, 2013)
• CEOs in Headphones – Postscript (June 13, 2013)
• CEOs in Headphones – Financial Engineering (May 1, 2013)
• Coach Accountability Reduces Vicarious Liability (September 6, 2013).
• Take My Coach and I’ll Take You to Court (January 4, 2011).
• “The Secret Agreement” (July 18, 2011).
• Tattoogate (January 10, 2012).
• University of Illinois Assistant Coaches Controversy: A re-examination of Assistant Coaches’ Term of Contract (March 16, 2012).
• Tattoogate Impacts Urban Meyer’s new OSU Contract (August 1, 2012).
• The Defense of Sovereign Immunity: Mike Leach and Texas Tech (September 4, 2012).

Southeast Wisconsin Professional Baseball Park District

• Ten Years Later:  Miller Park and Real Estate Development in the Village of West Milwaukee and Menomonee Valley (2012).
  

The Sports Lawyer

• College Coaches at the Bargaining Table – Employment Contract, September, 1989
• To Play or Not to Play, September, October 1993
• The Nuances of Termination Clauses, 1998
• The Name is the Game, 1998
• No Games, No Rent, 1999
• Most Favored Nation Clauses, 1999
• Stadium Financing and Franchise Relocation Act, 2000
  

Hanaekthe International Sports Law Review, 1995

• Sports Contracts

International Athletic Foundation Supplement to Sport and Law, 1995

• Enforcing Sports Contracts

British Association for Sport and Law Journal

• The Legal Aspects of the Tonya Harding Figure Skating Eligibility Case, Summer 1993
• The NBA – A Model for Success, 1995
• Designing and Implementing a Sports-Based Risk Management Program, 1997

Fifth Conference – International Association for Sports Law, 1997

• Commercialization of Athletes:  Opportunities, Restrictions, and Protections

I.A.S.L. Congress, 1997

• What the Future Holds for the European Transfer System:  The American Experience

The Milwaukee Lawyer

• Use of Land Contract as a Financing Tool, 1977
• Due-On Sale:  An Update, 1984