You can go home again. Or at least that is what Brad Corbin has learned. In 2015, Corbin returned to his Southern Ohio/Northern Kentucky roots, where he was born and raised, to become the assistant athletic director of compliance at Miami University. For that...
By Andrew Bondarowicz The NCAA is teetering in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, the NCAA’s stance was to leave the decision on whether to play up to the conferences. It ceded its leadership position to them and the result has been predictable....
By Laura J. Henneman of Segal McCambridge Singer and Mahoney, Ltd. In a recent ruling, the Court of Appeals of Indiana upheld the granting of summary judgment in Appellee-Defendant Insurers’ favor and against the Appellant-Plaintiff NCAA in an insurance...
By Jeff Birren, Senior Writer These pages have followed the consolidated cases that include Shawne Alston v. NCAA et al, and In re National Collegiate Athletic Grant-in-Aid Cap Antitrust Litigation (“Alston”). The NCAA lost in the District Court and the Ninth...
A former women’s assistant basketball coach at UC Riverside (UCR) has sued the university, claiming that she wasn’t promoted to head coach, as promised, because she participated in the investigation of the former head coach. Plaintiff Giuliana Mendiola, who...
By Darren Heitner, Chief Vision Officer at HEITNER LEGAL, P.L.L.C. NBA rookie and former Duke basketball player Zion Williamson is in the middle of two lawsuits that concern his former marketing agents. Those agents want a commission from Williamson’s...
From NCAA athlete to NCAA investigator and lawyer, Tim Nevius has over a decade of experience in college sports. Following his baseball career at the University of Dayton, Nevius graduated first in his law school class before joining the NCAA as an investigator. In...
Nearly 18 months ago, Julie Owen took over at the University of Mississippi as its new senior associate athletics director for compliance. It wasn’t the way she wanted the promotion. She had been a long-time co-worker with her predecessor, even when the two were at...
By Tyler S. Woods, J.D. Candidate, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (“CTE”) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by repeated head injuries and is accompanied by delayed symptoms such as memory loss, confusion, impaired...
In response to the cancellation of all remaining winter and spring NCAA championships, the Board of Governors voted unanimously on Thursday to distribute $225 million in June to Division I members to specifically focus on supporting college athletes. Division I...
By Derek Helling Months after the NCAA settled the medical monitoring claims of a class of former athletes at disparate member institutions, two of the class members are pursuing negligence claims against the NCAA in separate actions. Derek Owens and...
By Nicole Berkowitz, Samuel P. Strantz and Susan A. Russell In response to the recent enactment of California’s Fair Pay to Play Act, and the NCAA’s subsequent approval for a policy change to address compensation to student athletes for the use of their name,...
