Talk Sports - Legal Issues

Legal Issues

TalkSports is often the target of legal challenges by sports athletes and their agents. Known legal challenges follow.

• CAA, the agent of Warrick Dunn has sent TalkSports several cease and desist orders claiming that TalkSports does not have the right to use Warrick Dunn's name or image without permission. They claim it infringes on common law trademark rights.
• EAG, the agent of Shaun Phillips is organizing legal action against TalkSports and using their relationship with NBC to get the creator TalkSports fired from his contract with NBC.
• McGuireWoods, the agent of Israel Idonije, is threatening legal action against TalkSports unless they stop publishing the Idonije webpage on TalkSports.
• Landmark, the agent of Morris Peterson, threatened legal action against TalkSports when someone posted Peterson's phone number on the website.
• Younger, the agent of Steven Jackson, threatened legal action against TalkSports unless they deleted all webpages from the website that used Steven's name.
• Eric Cairns' lawyers Robinson, McCallum, McKerracher, Graham have threatened to sue Rapid Spiral Development and Randy Charles Morin over comments posted on Talk-Sports.
• Justin Jenkins' lawyer, Katrina Gibbs sent TalkSports a fake subpoena. An obvious attempt to scare that failed and raises ethic concerns around his lawyer.
• Terrence Wheatley' lawyers have sent TalkSports an email saying that the website violates his privacy rights and they may take legal action.

There is absolutely no moderation as to what gets posted. People claiming that players are alcoholics and pill poppers, gay, sleeping with other players wives and the like, and then attacking fans that go to watch their team practice.

What is going on within pages of the talksports website is not a joke. No sign up is required and people can post anything they wish, anonymously. This site needs to be shut down, not sold.