NCAA Faces Long Odds in Convincing Congress to Bail Out Amateurism
If the NCAA has its way, Congress will pass legislation to nationalize NIL rules, declare that college athletes aren’t employees and insulate amateurism from antitrust…
If the NCAA has its way, Congress will pass legislation to nationalize NIL rules, declare that college athletes aren’t employees and insulate amateurism from antitrust…
The case poised to follow Ed O’Bannon’s and Shawne Alston’s lawsuits in rocking NCAA restraints on athlete compensation escalated on Friday. Attorneys for Arizona…
Today’s guest columnist is journalist Brad Wolverton, host of the Sports Scholarship Stories podcast. As a reporter covering the O’Bannon v. NCAA trial in 2014—a…
Jeffrey Kessler, a lead attorney for athletes in House v. NCAA and arguably the nation’s top sports litigator, says he is “happily monitoring” the situation surrounding…
Today’s guest columnist is Ed O’Bannon. I wish Mark Emmert well on his retirement, but his term as head of the NCAA will leave a lot to be desired. I’m very familiar…
Today’s guest columnist is economist and statistician Ted Tatos. “Your liberty to swing your fist ends just where my nose begins.” Most of us have likely heard…
Ricky Volante wanted to pay college athletes, and he had a damn good plan to do it. He just needed money, which is why he was standing outside the Roman…
Last week was perhaps the most transformative week in college sports law in decades, if not ever. You might not be aware of one reason why. Last Thursday, U.S. District…
Twelve days before the U.S. Supreme Court hears the oral argument for NCAA v. Alston, the Indianapolis-based nonprofit on Friday submitted a 28-page reply brief. The…
In what will be a historic case for American sports law and the college sports industry, the United States Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it has granted…
In an expected but unpromising move, the NCAA and 11 conferences last week petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to grant review of the grant-in-aid class action led by…
The person who replaces the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg as associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court will play a crucial role in shaping laws that affect the sports…