A Kentucky appeals court has affirmed a ruling that a booster and a booster organization supporting the University of Louisville men’s basketball program do not have sufficient standing to sue the NCAA over its decision to, in their opinion, excessively punish the...
By Richard C. Giller, Esq., of Pillsbury The 2020 NFL Draft will take place in just over 4 months in Las Vegas, Nevada between Thursday, April 23 and Saturday, April 25, 2020. Several months before last year’s NFL Draft, and months before Clemson beat Alabama...
If someone had told Shalini Shanker back in high school that she might one day create a very successful career in collegiate athletics, it understandably might have surprised her. Afterall, participating in sports was not her thing in high school. Her passion...
ASU’s Sports Law & Business Program executive director says the devil is in the details when it comes to money For decades, the NCAA has adamantly opposed the idea of student-athletes being paid to play college sports. That position is no longer tenable....
When Trace Wilgus was elected as 3rd Vice President of the National Association of Athletics Compliance last spring, it sent a message to the outside world that the associate athletics director of compliance at Vanderbilt University had arrived. No one had to...
By Ronald Gaither and Elizabeth McCurrach, BakerHostetler On September 30, 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed California’s Fair Pay to Play Act, a law targeted at providing compensation to student-athletes for use of their name, image and likeness. The California...
(What follows was recently published by the Drake Group and its President, B. David Ridpath, Ph.D., in response to the NCAA’s movement last month toward compensating student athletes in specific circumstances.) “We applaud and are cautiously encouraged by the...
The NCAA’s top governing board has voted unanimously to permit students participating in athletics the opportunity to benefit from the use of their name, image and likeness “in a manner consistent with the collegiate model.” The Board of Governors’ action...
George Mason University Assistant Vice President and Director of Athletics Brad Edwards has announced that Kristi Giddings has been named the department’s Deputy Athletic Director of Legal, Compliance, and NCAA Governance. Throughout her career, Giddings has...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the 2017 ruling of a district judge from the Northern District of California, finding that a former University of Southern California football player was not an employee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association...
By David Ridpath, Gerry Gurney, and Donna Lopiano In 2017, after the University of North Carolina (UNC) escaped punishment for a two decades long massive academic scandal designed to manage and maintain the eligibility of underprepared athletes, the cumulative...
By Robert J. Romano, JD, LLM On April 22, 2010, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) reached a 14-year agreement, worth $10.8 billion (approximately $770 million annually), with CBS and Turner Broadcasting System wherein the two media companies...
