FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Fordham Law students hit a three-run homer at the 15th Annual Tulane International Baseball Arbitration Competition between Jan. 19 and 21, swinging for the fences and winning three awards in total. Competitors Mackenzie Alpert ‘24, Max Fishman ‘24, Tori Klevan ‘24, and Hiren Patel ‘24—alongside coaches Nico Corti ‘23, Kimberly Fishman ‘23, Sydney Glazer ‘23, and Shane Kuse ‘23—won the overall competition after defeating approximately 40 other teams. The team also won the Written Advocacy Award and the Oral Advocacy Award. The competition, hosted by the Tulane Sports Law Society at Tulane University Law School, is a simulated salary arbitration competition modeled closely on the procedures used by Major League Baseball (MLB). Salary arbitration cases featured this year included Vladamir Guerrero Jr. v. Toronto Blue Jays, Shane Bieber v. Cleveland Guardians, and Shohei Ohtani v. Los Angeles Angels. Judges included executives and in-house counsel for MLB teams as well as MLB player agents. Though the competition was originally meant to be held in-person at Tulane University in New Orleans, both the competition and team practices were moved online due to the emergence and surge of the Omicron variant.