Sports laws were introduced to treat the issues that work both at the amateur and the professional and the international levels. Sports law covers the several areas of laws that are brought together. There are differences between the amateur and the professional players that are somewhat weak. The amateur students often receive scholarships and prices at the universities and also other forms of rewards even they are defined as amateur/junior by some organization or any institute but he or she cannot be a junior among the others. This happens because the amateur athletes participate in the sports as an avocation outside their main occupation, whereas the professional athletes were involved in the sports as a career or profession.

Amateur sports idea comprises the range of activities that can be counted from an individual casual athlete to the high school athletics that are organized by the intercollegiate or for international competitions. Most times these athletic activities are often organized and managed by the groups of individuals that set the rules, regulations and eligibility criteria for the competitions and also the courts were not prepare to interfere in the events of this groups rules and regulations as long as they were logically correct. The (NCAA) National Collegiate Athlete Association was the most important organization among all the organization. The NCAA was the central governing body for all the intercollegiate sports and also having more than 1000 members of the colleges and universities and about 50% of their members were sponsored by the state management.

There is most important area called as professional sports which has a great relationship between the player and the owner of the team, which will be govern or control by some sort of principles. Also today most sport leagues are having the contracts for the standard players which will serves as model service between the players and the owners. For providing the special needs and talents among the individual players this contract can be customized, because of the increase in the salaries in the professional sports most of the players in the professional sports are represented by their agents, hence there is Standard Representation Contract which will governs this relationship for controlling and regulating this agent, many state governing bodies requires this agents to be register with some organizational agencies.

International sport is having such a powerful occurrence in the society that unites communities, media, international exchange and friends from all over the world. At all the levels sport delivers its fever of sports and excitements in the global society. There are many illegal activities that are carried to gain a competitive edge. There are following points that represent the institutions and organizations that are responsible for governing the international sports.

IF – International federation which is the non governmental organization that governs the individual sports worldwide including other sports such IIHF (International Ice Hockey Federation) ISU (International Skating Union) UCI (Union Cyclist International)

FIFA – Federation Internatinal of Football Association is responsible for the governing soccer it setup the rules and regulations for the game and regulate the players and referees.

IOC – International Olympic Committee that owns all the rights of the Olympic symbols, motto, flags and the anthem. It is an international non governmental organization that has the final authorization on the movement of the Olympic events.

Since, sport law is documented as a fast increasing and challenging the area of law that deals with all the issues of career ending, injuries in the games and also complicated conferences that are related to sports.