Blog posts by Kevin Lawrie

Published July 21, 2011 by Kevin Lawrie.   Two years ago, in July 2009, I started my first contract with the Sport Law & Strategy Group.  We were working for a coalition of team sport NSOs to develop a position paper expl ...

Published June 29, 2011 Recently the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada released its annual report to Parliament on the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).  PIPEDA sets the ground rules for ...

Published May 19, 2011 Through social media, information can reach a greater number of people more quickly and more directly and this has consequences for sport organizations. A  side effect of the pervasiveness of social media is the ...

Published April 15, 2011 Sport organizations are wondering if it is really necessary to address social media within their organizational policies and codes of conduct.  After all, isn’t it enough that the organization has a Facebook fa ...

Published April 4, 2011 Recently there was outrage in Saskatchewan when a fake Facebook account purportedly belonging to Saskatoon Blades' hockey star Brayden Schenn posted racist comments demeaning Aboriginals.  The Saskatoon Blades r ...

Published March 14, 2011 I recently had the opportunity to speak at the amazing Ontario Coaches Conference 2011 in London, Ontario.  I spoke about communication in the coach-athlete relationship and highlighted the areas of law that co ...

Published December 3, 2010 I attended the Sport Leadership conference on November 18th-20th and was treated to some great presentations about social media.  One of the main themes was the position, and I share it, that organizations ne ...

Published July 5, 2010 What would you do if a coach in your organization showed you a player-created Facebook group that insulted the coach?  There are many of these groups in existence. One group, when this article was originally post ...

Published April 11, 2010 One of the goals of Canada’s Own the Podium funding program was to ‘Place first in the total medal count at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games’.  Canada received some criticism for baldly stating that goal.  Bu ...

Published February 11, 2010 Ozzie Sawicki’s excellent Technology Solutions columns in this publication help us understand how new technologies are being adapted for use in coach-athlete interactions. Some of the new technologies he has feat ...