Author: Aron Solomon

By Aron Solomon What a baseball season it has been. Major League Baseball just held their first Field of Dreams game in Dyersville, Iowa, a way to reconnect with their fans and harken back to an earlier time. The event was a massive success, garnering the best broadcast ratings in almost two decades. Meanwhile, Minor League Baseball, mere months after an MLB-led reorganization that saw a loss of around 40 teams, one of which took to the courts, made the news this season in far more visceral ways. Stories of players sleeping in their cars, needing to choose between food…

By Aron Solomon On Thursday afternoon, TMZ first reported that Jamie Spears would agree to begin the process to remove himself as conservator for his daughter, Britney Spears. To Ms. Spears and her fans, this is truly remarkable progress in the few weeks since the court allowed her to hire her own lawyer and move forward with the process of seeking to extricate herself from a 13-year conservatorship. For those unfamiliar with the legal process known as a conservatorship, under California Probate Code § 1801, it is a court case where a judge appoints a responsible person or organization (the…

Aron Solomon, editor for Today’s Esquire, joined host George Young on KFRU’s the Closers to discuss recent current legal issues surrounding the NFL and NCAA. Take a listen below! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKfQrN7PDN0

By Aron Solomon Imagine you’re new to a city and adore coffee. Like borderline obsessed with it. Okay, not really borderline. How do you find the best coffee? I moved back to my hometown of Montreal in 2020 after almost four years in Berlin. In Berlin, a truly world-class coffee city, there are a few iconic coffee spots that anyone new to the city will quickly hear about. Montreal is different. The city is much more divided into neighborhoods and people tend to take their coffee more hyper-locally than they do elsewhere, at least in my experience. So once I…

By Aron Solomon I am a sneakerhead. I honestly don’t own a pair of shoes (aside from snow boots) that aren’t a sneaker of one type or another. I’ve been quasi-obsessed with sneakers for half a decade. I’m not alone, with close to $100B of sneakers sold globally each year. Sneakers have also been in the legal spotlight a lot over the past few weeks and that doesn’t look like it’s about to end soon. While we have seen decades of sneaker wars between the world’s major brands, now the battle lines are expanding and engaging new combatants. For years,…

By Janie Mackenzie Earlier today, following a lengthy investigation, the New York state attorney general’s office issued their findings after almost a dozen women came forward and alleged that current Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) sexually harassed them. According the NBC News, “The investigation found that Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women, nine of whom are current and former state employees — and one of whom is a New York State trooper.” Upon the release of the report, New York Attorney General Letitia James told reporters, “None of them welcomed it and all of them found it uncomfortable.” Additionally, the report also…

By Aron Solomon Editors Note: This article originally appeared in TechCrunch On Tuesday, the Open Cap Table Coalition announced its launch through an inaugural Medium post. The goal of this project is to standardize startup capitalization table data as well as make it far more accessible, transparent and portable. For those unfamiliar with a cap table, it’s a list of who owns your company’s securities, which includes your company shares, options and more. A clear and simple cap table should quickly indicate who owns what and how much of it they own. For a variety of reasons (sometimes inexperience or bad…

By Aron Solomon In an April memo the NFL informed all teams that Tier 1 and 2 employees (not including players) “should be expected to be vaccinated unless they have a bona fide medical or religious ground for not doing so.” Those who refuse vaccination without either a religious or medical reason will not be eligible for Tier 1 or 2 status “and therefore will not be permitted access to the ‘football only’ restricted area and may not work directly or in close proximity with players,” This week we saw the ramifications of the NFL’s policy, with two assistant coaches…

By Aron Solomon A huge sports story over the past few days has the universities of Oklahoma and Texas moving to the Southeastern Conference (the SEC). At least one of its correct conference members, Texas A&M, is displeased and was planning a Board of Regents meeting for Monday to discuss the realignment, before announcing on Sunday afternoon that they are now ready for the schools to join. Adding Oklahoma and Texas is absolutely a power move by the SEC, one of a series of dominos that are falling that may see college football separate from the NCAA. Alabama, Auburn, Florida,…

By Shaun Flanagan Editors Note: This article originally appeared in Inside Sources COVID-19, and the choices made to contain it, have impacted communities across the United States and highlighted the holistic nature of prosperity, testing America’s institutional, economic, and social resilience. While the American Rescue Plan is designed to tackle the immediate crisis, the newly published 2021 United States Prosperity Index also reveals the U.S. was facing a number of significant institutional and social challenges that were already acting as a brake on prosperity before the pandemic hit. It is vital that these are addressed alongside the direct and indirect impacts of Covid…