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Message: [QUOTE="Stew Crew, post: 4909936, member: 12799"] A couple of major differences: 1. Many professional sports leagues have some sort of antitrust exemption, so they operate under different rules. 2. Every league has their own players union (NFLPA is part of AFL-CIO but operates pretty much independently and is exclusive to NFL players). In the Dartmouth case, they chose an established union that represents other Dartmouth employees. I'm not saying anything like this will happen but it an interesting possibility. You have to think that at some point, some overzealous local union president tries to leverage a university by threatening to shut down its sports program in order to benefit the larger union population. [/QUOTE]