By Gary J. Chester The sports agency field has long been regarded as the wild, wild west of professional sports. It took decades for the sports industry to address the myriad of issues presented by unscrupulous agents and when it did, the regulation came through...
By Robert J. Romano, Assistant Professor, St. John’s University On October 20, 2020, former Texas Tech University Head Women’s Basketball Coach Marlene Stollings filed a federal lawsuit against her former employer in the United States District Court, Northern District...
By Dr. Camille Kraft Nothing grabs the headlines firmer than a story of a player who is caught with an illegal substance. Megastar-athletes Josh Gordon and Randy Gregory have recently joined the long and infamous list of such fallen athletes. Both players were...
By Eric G. Kramer The University of Utah (Utah) filed a complaint against Fresno State University (Fresno State) over a contract dispute regarding the cancellation of a men’s basketball contest this season. A game contract was executed between Utah and Fresno State on...
By Richard T. Karcher, J.D., Associate Professor in the Sport Management Program at Eastern Michigan University Imagine yourself in the following situation. While pursuing your bachelor’s degree, you decided you want to be a lawyer and you did everything necessary to...
By Jeff Birren, Senior Writer Introduction Booker Moore played for the Buffalo Bills in the 1980s. He died in 2009. A post-mortem examination revealed that he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Stephanie Moore, the widow, and Personal...
By Robert J. Romano, St. John’s University, Division of Sports Management Tenure is a term that causes junior faculty to tether themselves to their desk and frantically write with the hope of having their research published in scholarly journals. It’s when a college...
By Bruce B. Siegal As 2020 comes to a close, COVID-19 has caused many intercollegiate athletics conferences across all three NCAA divisions to cancel or postpone events or modify competition schedules through the end of the calendar year, and likely beyond....
Breach of Contract Lawsuit by Ex-Coach Holds Potentially Explosive Implications By Gary J. Chester The one-count complaint filed by a former men’s basketball coach against North Carolina State University in the U.S. District Court in North Carolina in...
By Robert J. Romano, St. John’s University, Division of Sports Management During the 2019 football season, NCAA member institutions with a Division I football program paid out, collectively, more than $294 million in head coaches’ salaries. Those same member...
By Jeff Birren, Senior Writer In March 2019 agent Ben Dogra sued his firm’s former client Robert Griffin III for fees related to endorsement deals that were obtained for Griffin in 2014, 2015 and perhaps in 2016. In November 2014 Dogra’s employer, CAA Sports LLC,...
By Jim Moss As a former litigator, I dreaded finding a risk management plan as an item I needed to disclose to the plaintiffs. They have become road maps for plaintiff’s counsel to sue and checklists for winning those lawsuits. It is impossible to...
