Panel Affirms Antitrust Ruling, Handing NCAA Another Victory

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that the complaint of a former assistant football coach at the University of Kentucky, who alleged that the NCAA violated antitrust laws by allegedly restricting his future employment, lacked “the critical commercial activity component required to permit application of the Sherman Act.”   The panel also denied the coach’s appeal on a second lower court ruling, this one involving a fraud claim against the Unive