American fans rarely open the sports section of the newspaper or turn on the sports news without reading or hearing about a lawsuit. The legal battles may involve individual players (ranging from Casey Martin to Latrell Sprewell), team owners (like Al Davis or George Steinbrenner), or, most often, leagues and the players’ associations. Sometimes they involve broad sports organizations such as the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which, for example, made an instant decision in Nagano, Japan, to bar from future Olympic Games any athletes found to have smoked marijuana, but which was reluctant to take action against cities that had won the chance to host the Games by channeling money into the pockets of IOC members.