This CLE course examines the key elements inherent in sports contracts, reviewing them across a variety of legal settings: collectively bargained player agreements as in Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Football League and National Hockey League; contracts involving personal services including coaching, broadcasting, and managerial contracts in sports; endorsement agreements and licensing agreements. The materials will also examine several “real world” exemplars of trends in termination, injunctive relief, limitation and extension of rights, and liquidated damages in current contracts. Also highlighted are ethical concerns for negotiators and course participants will have an opportunity to take part in several hypothetical exercises drawn from actual contract examples.