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…
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Will NCAA Athletes Become Employees? 5 Sports Law Predictions for 2023
Last year was epic for sports law. Expect the same in 2023. Here are five key predictions: 1. College Athletes as Employees Will Make Legal Headway College…
Operation Varsity Blues Kingpin Sentenced to 42 Months in Prison
Infamous college consultant William “Rick” Singer, the mastermind of the Operation Varsity Blues’ fake athlete admissions scandal, was sentenced to 42 months (3.5 years)…
LIV, Pay-for-Play and NFL Rules: Top Sports Law Controversies of 2022
The year 2022 was transformative in the sports industry, especially on the sports law front. Here are the 10 most significant legal controversies: 10) Operation…
New Title IX Bill Seeks Fines for Sports Gender-Equity Violations
A new piece of Congressional legislation introduced Tuesday is looking to add language to federal Title IX laws that would empower the Secretary of Education to issue…
NLRB USC Case Slouches Toward Employee Status for NCAA Athletes
Seven years after the NLRB dismissed a petition to recognize Northwestern football players as employees, college-athlete advocates scored an important, though…
NLRB Targets USC, Pac-12 for Unfair Labor Charge
The National Labor Relations Board has tabled its investigation of a broad unfair labor practices charge against the NCAA to focus on a narrower one focusing on the…
Harvard Privilege on Docket in Admissions, Varsity Blues Cases
Two cases, one before the U.S. Supreme Court and the other before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, both grapple with an age-old question: Should an…
SCOTUS’s Harvard Racial Admissions Case Puts Sports on the Docket
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases that could end affirmative action in college admissions and legally compel colleges to reconstruct admissions…
NCAA Athletes Score Another Chance to Debate ‘Slavery Loophole’
On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit granted a motion by former Villanova football player Trey Johnson and other athletes to file a new brief…
NCAA Athletes Seek Class Status for Lost NIL Pay in Lawsuit
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…
Georgia Tech, Pastner Vindicated by Sex-Extortion Indictments
Georgia Tech men’s basketball head coach Josh Pastner and his university are victims of an elaborate extortion plot, according to a federal indictment in…
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