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SRLA Set to Host Annual Conference in Louisville House Seeks to Block Proposed Amendments to Title IX Regulations Unique Gift Foreshadows Karen Hoffman Lent’s Sports Law Career at Skadden Fan Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Cleveland Browns Over Alleged Misidentification by Team in Beer Throwing Incident Lightning Detection Companies Aim to Eliminate Tragedy by Minimizing Risks Pedagogy in Sport Law Classes: Using Sports Litigation Alert Effectively and Creatively Soccer Player Sues Opponent, Associations over Concussion Wallace Talks About Experiences that Have Led to His Successful Practice Former Cal Female Soccer Player Alleges Dismissal from Team Violated Title IX & Other Laws Tua Tagovailoa: A Case Study Involving the Importance of Purchasing Loss-Of-Value Insurance Coverage New York State Appeals Court Affirms Assumption of Risk Ruling in Case Involving Basketball Court California Judge Sides With Clippers in Challenge to New Arena; Plaintiffs Promise Appeal Court Turns Back Plaintiffs in Riddell Case Iowa Supreme Court: Carrying a Firearm in the Parking Lot of an Athletic Complex Is the Same as a Classroom SRLA Set to Host Annual Conference in Louisville eSports In Depth — Is My Loot Box Legal? Former Occidental College Athletic Director Sues for Gender and Sexual Orientation Discrimination Sports Lawyer Embraces Her Passion as Senior Associate AD for Compliance at Colorado State High-Profile Sports Law Professor Sues Boss, Alleging Retaliation NCAA Takes Steps to Allow College Athletes to Get Paid… Now What? Mother and Her Football-Playing Son Sue Youth Football Organizations over Concussion; Defendants File Objection Why Is Player Betting A Cardinal Sin? MiLB Contraction and Its Legal Implications Is It Fair to Extend Liability to The Foul Poles? California Jury Sides with USA Swimming in Molestation Case; Sparks Fly Between Attorneys California Court of Appeal Revives Civil Molestation Case Against USA TAEKWONDO Humvee Manufacturer Rolls Out IP Suit Against Activision Second Circuit Establishes Higher Burden for § 1983 Claims in Partially Dismissing Former Basketball Coach’s Discrimination Suit Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal of Soccer Player’s Concussion Lawsuit Based on Assumption of Risk Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: Basic Issues to Consider in Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Wilgus Discusses His Path to Success as a NCAA Compliance Professional Hogan Lovells Adds Leading Sports Lawyer Michael Kuh to Corporate Practice in New York Telephone Consumer Protection Act Case Involving Tampa Bay Lightning Is Settled NFHS Sparks Controversy With Position Paper Claiming No Linkage Between CTE and Playing High School Football Hackney Publications Welcomes Skadden as Sponsor of eSports and the Law, a Timely and Complimentary Newsletter Reporting on a Fast-Growing Industry Hold My Beer! Browns Get Doused with Lawsuit in Mistaken Identity Case Exercise As Punishment? Drop And Give Me Twenty . . . Hundred Thousand Dollars The Cover-Up Is Always Worse Than The Concussion — Central Michigan University’s Head Gymnastics Coach Fired for Inducing Athletes to Hide Injuries Name, Image, Likeness and the NCAA: What You Need to Know Court Dismisses Baseball Coach’s Lawsuit Against College of Charleston, Athletic Director Court: Golfer’s Claim Against Sports Agency Can Continue Magistrate Judge Sides With Ex-Coach Claiming University Interfered With Her Right to Take FMLA Leave NBA Pension Plan Defeats Stale Claim Judge Denies Defendants’ Bid to Exclude Expert in Products Liability Case Sheppard Mullin Mourns Passing of Sports and Entertainment Lawyer Kelly Crabb The Drake Group Applauds NCAA Position on Allowing College Athletes to Exploit Their Own Names, Images and Likenesses — But Issues Caution Regarding Trusting the NCAA NCAA Board of Governors Starts Process to Enhance Name, Image and Likeness Opportunities Athletes for Equity in Sport Formed to ‘Promote the Best Interests of All Athletes in Amateur Sports by Ensuring Fairness and Accountability’ Training for Title IX Investigators Lacks Tested, Effective Techniques Concussed High School Football Player Sues School District After Coach Allegedly Tells Him to ‘Man Up’ and ‘Get Back Out There’ Rutgers Softball Coaches Under Scrutiny for Alleged Mistreatment of Players International Transfers in Professional Soccer: Key Considerations Former Auburn Softball Pitcher Sues for Sex Discrimination and Retaliation The Emerging Role of Antitrust in eSports (Part II) Insurance Is Not Killing Football And Other Contact Sports—It’s Making Them Safer Eagles Soar Away from Liability in ‘Failure to Provide Security’ Case Sixth Circuit Affirms Social Media Posts Were Not a Factor in Coach’s Firing Mariners Fans Win Some Battles in ADA Suit, While Vast Portion of Claims Must be Decided at Trial The Louisiana State Supreme Court Sends Another Saints Fan Marching Home Minnesota High School Coaches Are Not Public Officials In Defamation Cases Venue Liability 101: The Duty Owed to Guests And Patrons Former College of Holy Cross Basketball Coach Sues the School for Breach of Contract, Defamation, Age Discrimination, and Other Wrongdoings Barnes & Thornburg Launches University and Professional Athletics Group Atmos Wants to Help Manage the Legal Risks Associated with Pathogens in the Training Room Two Regular Students Sue University of Kentucky and Others, Alleging Title IX Violations North Idaho College Wrestling Coach Files Intent to Sue After Termination, Alleging It Was Retaliation New York Attorney General Requires Clearer View of Playing Field for Fans Seeking Tickets Mets Fan Sues Team After Getting Hit in the Head by a T-shirt Fired from a T-shirt Cannon Nebraska Softball Players, Supported by the College Athlete Advocacy Initiative, Threatened Boycott Over Alleged Head Coach Mistreatment High School Golf Team Fails in Bid to Have Court Overturn Disputed Rules Decision Judge Sides with School in Case Involving Athlete’s Claim that Her Due Process Rights Were Violated When Scholarship Was Not Renewed District Court Denies Class Certification in Youth Football CTE Case Court Sides with Plaintiff in Miller v. Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota Potential Expansion of Athletic Programs’ Duty of Care to Student-Athletes and New Limitations to Waivers of Liability: Lessons Learned from Feleccia v. Lackawanna College NHL Seattle Announces Assistant General Manager NASCAR Hires Tracey Lesetar-Smith As Senior VP, General Counsel NFL Reaches Concussion Settlement with Westport Insurance Corporation Five Questions on Sports Law With Jeffrey Kessler of Winston & Strawn Cheerleader Sues University of California, Berkeley, for Negligence, Citing Failure to Follow Concussion Protocol Lifelong Seattle Sounders Fan Mendoza-Exstrom in Dream Job as Club’s General Counsel Athletic Trainers at High School Sports Events — Saving Lives, Fostering Student Health, Reducing Legal Liability Fox’s Adam Reiss Talks about the Company’s Big Wager on Sports Betting The Case that Might Undermine Title IX Going to the Dogs: Keeping Your Liability on a Leash Tennessee Appeals Court Finds Trial Court Overstepped Boundaries in Interfering with Athletic Association’s Ruling Appeals Court Sides With School District in Concussion Case Involving Cheerleader St. Cloud State University in Minnesota Violated Title IX, Federal Judge Rules Second Circuit Revives Coach’s Gender Discrimination Claim Against Hofstra Court Rules School District Is Shielded by Immunity in Concussion Case Sports Lawyer Kristi Giddings Named Deputy AD of Legal, Compliance and NCAA Governance at George Mason University Sports Lawyer Ellen Ferris’s Past Experiences Fuel Rise to AAC Compliance Chief Former BYU Player Drops Concussion Lawsuit against School and Others, Citing Agreement on Treatment Running Backs Union Unit Clarification Petition Efforts Shut Out By NLRB IAAF Appoints Advisory Panel to Review Whether to Permit Double-Amputee Can Compete Against Able-Bodied Athletes, Including in the 2020 Olympics Former Real Salt Lake Head Coach Mike Petke Sues Club, Alleging Breach of Contract Former Orioles Minor Leaguer Sues Team and Stadium Owner over Game Injury Examining the U of H Lawsuit: Penalty Flag or Fair Play? Couple Sues Reds and Others Over Foul Ball Injury Flagging Plaintiffs Early, Court Grants Motion to Strike Class Allegations in Football Helmet Lawsuit Federal Court Judge: Private College Denied Due Process to Football Player Accused of Sexual Misconduct Supreme Court of Minnesota Hands Vikings, Insurers a Victory in Concussion Case Circuit Split on Student’s Due Process Right to Cross-Examination in Title IX Matters Court Tells Jets’ PSL Holder to Sit Down Dave Roberts, National Athletics Compliance leader and Sports Lawyer, Named Interim Director of Athletics at USC National Lacrosse League Names Former NHL Executive And Sports Lawyer Jessica Berman Deputy Commissioner and EVP of Business Affairs National Sports Law Institute Invites Attorneys and Others in the Industry to Annual Fall Conference on October 18 at Marquette NCAA Responds to California Senate Bill 206 with Letter to Governor The California Legislature Has Spoken — Will Governor Newsom Make Senate Bill 206 Law? Deubert Charts Quick Path to the GC’s Office at D.C. United Former Assistant Football Coach Sues University of Southern California over Firing Immovable Object Vs. Unstoppable Force: Concussions and the Fourteenth Amendment The Emerging Role of Antitrust Law in Esports — Part One New York’s Appellate Division Court Reverses Lower Court’s Finding for Sports Facility in Negligence Case Predictably, Ninth Circuit Sides with NCAA, PAC-12 About Whether Athletes Should be Paid as Employees Court Dismisses Title IX Lawsuit to Over University’s Cutting Women’s Ice Hockey Program Mets and Others Prevail In Spectator Accident Involving Cable Cover (or ‘Yellow Jacket’) Associated With Broadcast of Baseball Game Male Coach’s Gender Discrimination Claim Falls Short Because of Lack of Comparators Brooklyn Law Professor Jodi Balsam Named to NCAA’s new Independent Resolution Panel Passion for Sports Drives Monument Sports Insurance Agency KU Football Coach’s Lawsuit Survives Motion to Dismiss The Phillie Phanatic Goes To Court College Presidents Choose to Enable Academic Fraud in Athletics DeMeco Ryans and a Career-Ending Injury: On to Arbitration! Factors Leading to the Trafficking and Exploitation of African Minors in Football Legal Experts See an Emerging Opportunity Concerning E-sports Sponsorships School District Shielded From Lawsuit by Parent Banned From Basketball Games Ski Lift Rider Who Suffered Concussion in Fall Awarded $3,275,000 Court Hands Tampa Bay Buccaneers a Loss in Team’s Attempt to Grab Cash from an Oil Spill Disaster Wrestling with Referees: Halter v. Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Hawaii District Court Says High School Athletes’ Title IX Claims May Proceed under ‘Controlling Authority’ Theory Opinion: Flaw in AB 1 Is that Is that It Doesn’t Go Into Effect Soon Enough Youth Football Group Praises Passage of California Youth Football Act, Attorneys from the Plaintiff and Defense Side Weigh In California’s Assembly Bill No. 1 Signed Into Law Title IX Class Action Lawsuit Against Guilford College Settled by Public Consent Decree Former NFL Cheerleader Awaits Arbitration Decision in Complaint Against the NFL Ex-NFL Player Sues for Benefits, Citing ‘Diagnosis of CTE’ Abolition of Rule 40 Will Help Athletes Competing in the Olympics, But It Will Require A Collective Effort for a Complete Victory Jenner & Block’s David W. Sussman Provides Insights on the Dynamic Change Taking Place at the Intersection of Media and Sports Implications of Increased Drone Operation Around Stadiums California Court Grants Summary Judgment to Golf Facility in Concussion Case California Supreme Court Reverses Appeals Court. Handing Modest Victory to Giants Security Guards Ninth Circuit Overturns Ruling on Hostile Work Environment Claim Against Baseball Club Federal Court Sends Two Saints Fans Marching Home in Defeat New York’s Right of Publicity Statute at Center Court in Esports Dispute Study Finds No Correlation Between Brain Function and Head Impacts After Two Seasons of Youth Tackle Football Former AD Abused by Priest Reaches Settlement With Fresno State Over Firing Takeaways From the Onyshko Jury Verdict: Win for NCAA, Loss for Plaintiffs, Draw for All Other Defendants in Future Head Injury Cases The Science of CTE: Have We Rejected the Null Hypothesis? Sports Venues and the Americans with Disabilities Act Carroll College Golf Coach Claims Title IX Retaliation The NCAA Should Be Responsible for the Cost of a Division I Men’s Basketball Scholarship Behind the Lines: Recent Changes to D1 Athletics Programs’ Reporting Structures Judge Dismissed Disability Discrimination Claims of Student-Athlete Seeking Extra Year of Eligibility Case Examines Question of What Is a Buffer Zone Is? Lutz v. Rakuten, Inc. Touches on the Global Nature of Sports and the Contract Disputes That Can Arise Between American Players and Japanese Teams Plaintiff Who Fell Down Stairs After Stepping on Gum Loses Appeal Utah’s Highest Court Creates Its Own Version of a Contact Sports Exception Professor Mark Conrad and Lawyer Jeremy M. Evans Present on Sports Law for CLE Companion NCAA College-Athletes to Receive Checks in August for $208 Million Antitrust Class-Action Settlement Breaking News — The Drake Group Endorses Effort in California to Allow College Athletes to Profit off Name, Image and Likeness Kevin Warren, Vikings Chief Operating Officer and Prominent Sports Lawyer, Named Big Ten Conference Commissioner What One Law Firm Is Doing to Level the Playing Field Among Its Sports Lawyers Senate Bill Proposes Equal Pay for U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Insurance Coverage For Your High-Profile Clients: Perception vs. Reality A Student Athlete’s Fight Against the System Former Seahawk Malik McDowell and the World’s Most Expensive ATV Ride Hard Row to Hoe in Boxing Negligence Case: Hague v City of Edmonton, et al. The District Gives Final Approval to the Class Action Settlement in the St. Louis/St. Louis Rams PSL Litigation California Appeals Court Affirms Cheerleader Assumed Risk in Case Involving Multiple Concussions Coach Suffering Two Separate Head Injuries While Preforming Duties Entitled to Accidental Disability Benefits Appeals Court Affirms That Assumption of Risk Argument Is Wanting in Golf Course Case Minnesota Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal of Claim That City Was Liable in Slip and Fall Case Drew Eckl & Farnham Partner Jack Reale Selected as Champ Bailey’s Pro Football Hall of Fame Presenter ASU Law Grad Ahron Cohen Leading an NHL Revival in the Desert Three Former UCLA Football Players Sue for Injuries Agents Beware: Representation Agreement May Not Be Enforceable If It Violates State Sports Agent Laws High School Soccer Coach Sues His Former Employer After It Fires Him Over ‘Inappropriate Comments’ to Female Players The King of the North v. Nike: A Clash Over Valuable IP Rights Swimmer Sues Fitness Clinic Over Multivitamin That Led to Suspension Hanley vs. Tampa Bay Sports and Entertainment LLC: Putting the Telephone Consumer Protection Act on ‘Ice’? Riddell Granted Summary Judgment in Helmet Rival’s Patent Infringement Suit Court Dismisses Antitrust Claim of For-profit Hockey Rink Operator Federal Jury Returns Verdict in Favor of Ski Helmet Manufacturer in Products Liability Suit Court Agrees to Transfer Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against NBA to Western District of Michigan Baseball Player Assumed the Risk of Injury on Field With Anchored Bases Appeals Court Finds for High School District After Football Player Suffers Freak Injury Study Examines Whether Concussed Athletes Are More Susceptible to Second Concussion NCAA Working Group to Examine Name, Image and Likeness Former USA Diving Coach Pleads Guilty to Sexual Battery Allows Lawsuit to Proceed Against the USOC and USA Diving Tfue Lawsuit Sparks Scrutiny of Gamer Agreements and Esports Agency Activity Sports Law Icon and Bradley University President Gary Roberts Announces Plan to Retire; Feldman Salutes Him NCAA Hires First-Ever VP of Hearing Operations UPDATE: California SB 206 — Collegiate Athletics: Fair Pay to Play Act Moves Forward Medical Clinic Claims NFL Retaliated Against It for Providing Diagnostic Tests to Players, So They Could Claim a Disability Former USC Football Player Alleges Gender Bias After Expulsion for Intimate Partner Violence Topgolf Saves Par to Win Match in Antitrust Dispute over Ball-Tracking Technology Cash Advance Companies Earn a Win from 3rd Circuit in NFL Concussion Cases Court Dismisses Claim of Former Associate Athletics Director Who Sued University for Wrongful Termination NCAA Picks Up Key Win in Onyshko Concussion Case; Experts Weigh In Appeals Court Reverses, Handing Jilted Baseball Player Another Disappointment FDA Warns Against Using Medical Devices to Help Assess or Diagnose a Concussion Unless It Has Been ‘Cleared or Approved’ Squires Carves Out a Niche as an Expert in the Sports Facility and Event Management Industry Several Law Firms Earn Recognition From Chambers for Sports Law Expertise Epidemiology of Sports Concussion in the United States — An Excerpt from Sports Neurology, Volume 158 (Handbook of Clinical Neurology) Athletic Complex Sued After Failing to Give Mom a Chair to Sit Beside Wheelchair-Bound Daughter Former Cheerleader Sues University for Negligence Over Concussions Betting on Sports Wagering? Double Down on Licensing Prep Former Minnesota Technical College Coach & Athletic Coordinator Settles Whistleblower Case Federal Judge Denies University’s Motion to Dismiss Pay Discrimination Lawsuit Brought by Former Athletic Department Employee Appeals Court Sides With Commentator in Contract Dispute With Major League Baseball Appeals Court Deals Blow to High School Athletic Association Court: Stadium Gets Sovereign Immunity Protection from ADA Claim Baseball Spectator ‘Trampled’ By Fans In Pursuit Of A Souvenir Baseball Strikes Out In Negligence Action Drake Group Examines College Admissions Cheating Scandal, ‘the Dark Side of Athlete Special Admissions Programs’ Childhood Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Filed against USA Swimming’s Local Swim Committee and Member Club Former TCU Football Player Settles Lawsuit Against University over Alleged Abuse Oregon High School Student Sues School District for Negligence over Head Injury Suffered in Weight Room Despite ESPN Article Claims, Insurance Will Not End Youth Football Fan Injured By T-Shirt Canon Sues Astros Is Motorsport Headed for a Crash When It Comes to Concussions? Fan Violence at Sporting Events: Human Nature or Negligence? Professional Team Counsel Discuss Important Legal Issues in Their Practice Unusual Head Injury Suffered While Riding a Roller Coaster Allows a Plaintiff to Utilize the Doctrine of Res Ipsa Loquitur in Washington State Fifth Circuit Reverses Award of $1.5 Million in Deepwater Horizon Case Court Protects NFL Players’ Concussion Settlements in Bankruptcy Proceedings Circuit Court Finds Boys Have a Constitutional Right to Try Out and Participate on Dance Teams New York’s Appellate Court Determines that Plaintiff Assumed the Risk of Injury Associated with the Presence of Breakaway Bases Texas A&M Wants out of the “12th Man” Copyright Suit Family Sues NCAA After Son Dies in Hammer Throw Accident Genesis of an Industry: The Emerging Workforce and Regulations of esports NCAA Is Sued By Family of Student Athlete Who Committed Suicide Pushing Players Too Far to ‘Do Something’ Will Not ‘Win the Day’ in Court — Takeaways from two University of Oregon football lawsuits Husband Sues Ski Ranch for Death of Wife and Injuries to Daughters Due to Faulty Ski Lift Team Executives Discuss NBA Front Office Practices Judge: Former Player Waited Too Long to File Claim Against Pension Plan Basketball Official’s Claim Tripped Up by Constitution Court Dismisses Claim of Student-Athlete, Who Was Struck by Softball Batted by Coach Kevin Garnett’s Claim Against CPAs Continues After Court Finds It Has Jurisdiction Plaintiff’s Attempt to Use ADA to Get Another Year of High School Eligibility Fails Cleveland-Marshall College of Law’s 9th Annual Entertainment and Sports Law Symposium Scheduled for Friday, April 12, 2019 NCAA’s Football Rules Committee Seeks to Punish Chronic Headhunters Sports Industry Executive Bobby Sharma Joins Foley New Legislation Places Greater Responsibility on Volunteer Coach Examining the Increase in Foul Ball Cases and the Reasons Why Oregon Lawsuit Could Enhance the Responsibilities of Athletic Officials When It Comes to Protecting Student Athletes from Concussions Title IX and the Duty to Report as a Term for Coaching Employment A Brief Legal Overview of eSports Texas Appellate Court Allows a Release to Stop a Gross Negligence Claim State Appeals Court Affirms Worker’s Compensation Commission’s Finding That Claimant/Football Player Failed to Pursue Work California Supreme Court: No Anti-SLAPP Motion Where Protected Activity Tangential in Stadium Construction Case Court Sides With College That Was Sued by Coach for Wrongful Termination Court Finds for NHL, Which Sought to Shut Down Maker of Beer Stein Emulating Stanley Cup Ole Miss Sports Law Professor to Lead AALS Section on Law and Sports University of New Haven Researchers Prove the Amount of ‘Buffer Zone’ Needed for Basketball Courts Sports Lawyers Association Set to Host Annual Conference in Phoenix May 16-18 The University of Miami to Host Sports Law Conference Next Week The Drake Group Contends Courts Are ‘Ill-Equipped to Solve Intercollegiate Athletics Issues’ Eastern Michigan University Challenges Court’s Ruling that It Must Reinstate Women’s Tennis and Softball Programs Emmert Names Remy NCAA Chief Operating Officer Bradley U President Gary Roberts, a Sports Lawyer, Seeks to Diffuse Controversy over Media Access USA Taekwondo Faces Human Trafficking Legal Claim Title IX Compliance Creates Hurdles for Collegiate Esports Programs Michigan State Appeals Court Reverses Lower Court, Concludes Firearms Policy Is Not Contrary to State Law Court Sides Mostly With ASU After Former Coach Brings Gender Discrimination Claim High School Football Player Alleges Sexual Harassment Against Coach Judge Reconsiders Boxer’s Claim That a Physician’s Mistakes Exacerbated a Severe Brain Injury in the Ring Aloha Sports Inc. Wins Appeal in Lawsuit Against the NCAA 2019 Harvard Sports Law Symposium Scheduled for Monday, April 1, 2019 Daniel Wallach Opens the Country’s First Sports Betting-Focused Law Firm Steven Pachman to Speak at the 2019 University of Michigan Sport Concussion Summit Lethal Conditioning: Taggart, NCAA Sued for (Alleged) Negligence in Extensive Workouts Members of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team Bring Fight for Gender Equality to the Courts DOJ Reaches Settlement with Learfield IMG College over Alleged Unlawful Agreements Not to Compete Class Action Sex Discrimination Suit Filed Against Nike California Bill Would Allow College Athletes to Keep Amateur Status While Securing Marketing Opportunities Trouble Afoot: Duke’s ‘Shoe-gate’ Highlights Current Controversies in College Basketball CTE Theory and Litigation: Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Legal and Marketing Departments Must Work as a Team for Brand Protection and Promotion in the Sports Industry Addressing The Risk of a New Class of Plaintiff: The Reggie Bush Case Claim Bought by Daughter of Hernandez Is Denied Since He Was Retired at Time of Settlement NY Court Checks Amateur Hockey Player’s Suit against Ice Rink Operator Federal Judge Hands Partial Victory to the NCAA and the Plaintiffs/Student Athletes Suing It in Antitrust Case Court: Yoga Facility Could Be Liable or Patron’s Concussion Just Get Out of the Way — a Lesson in Crowd Control Seahawks Senior VP, General Counsel & Government Affairs Ed Goines Receives Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. Salute To Excellence Award What is Enes Kanter afraid of? — Political Intrigue and International Travel in the NBA Family Files Suit Against High School Employees After Son Almost Dies at Soccer Practice Leading Concussion Lawyer Paul D. Anderson Joins Humphrey, Farrington & McClain Not the Only Show in Town: Why WWE May Find Themselves Headlocked into Exploring Talent Contract Restructuration or Unionization Former Associate Athletics Director Sues University over Wrongful Termination Eleven Black Football Players File Fourteenth Amendment Civil Rights Complaint Against Maricopa County Community College District in Federal Court Over its Decision to End Football Program. MLB Teams, Like the Dodgers, Should Be More Proactive When Tragedy Strikes Celebrity and Concussion Intersect on the Ski Slope Golf Club Not Responsible For Injuries Suffered By Golfer Who Slips On Bridge Todd McNair v. NCAA: The Superior Court Grants McNair’s Motion For a New Trial Court Denies Basketball Player Who Sought Immediate Eligibility On Constitutional Grounds ‘Sex, Lies and Independent Contractors — A Cautionary Tale’ US Lacrosse Garners Praise for Speaking Out Against Native American Mascots beIN SPORTS Files New Legal Action with FCC against Comcast Family of Deceased Pro Basketball Player Responds to NBA’s Motion to Dismiss Her Wrongful Death Action Former Hockey Enforcer Targets Canadian Leagues with Concussion Lawsuit Former Field Hockey Athlete Fights to Hold American University Liable Herrick Sports Law Group Promotes Sports Lawyer to Partner Rams Settle Some of the St. Louis Litigation, Part 3 State Legislators React to Proposed Federal Title IX Regulations with State Law Proposals Claims of Financial Exigency & Roster Management Practices Under Scrutiny in Portz v. St. Cloud State University Ejection From Levi’s Stadium Leads To Arrest, Constitutional Claims, Media Scrutiny…And More Federal Judge Rules Eastern Michigan University Must Reinstate Women’s Tennis and Softball Programs to Comply with Title IX Federal Judge Sides with State High School Athletic Association in Eligibility Case Third Circuit Affirms Landmark New Jersey Supreme Court Ruling for the National Football League High School Basketball Player Ruled Eligible by Judge Court: Coach’s Name Calling Impugning Masculinity Does Not Qualify as Sexual Harassment Under Title IX Attorneys for USC and Former AD Settle with Former Associate AD, Who Alleged Harassment Parents Sue Over Use of Concussion-Inducing Drill NCAA Reevaluates its Anti-Doping Policies & Proposes Fairer Sanctions Justin Fields Appeal Will Further Define NCAA’s Definition of ‘Mitigating Circumstances’ St. Louis Rams’ PSL-Litigation, Part 2 ‘Put on the Ice to Fight,’ Ex-NHL Enforcer Sues Former Team Over Head Injuries Recent Conversations On Sport & Athlete Activism Concussion Suit Brought by Former Chiefs Player’s Ex-Wife Dismissed Amani Elijah Bledsoe v. NCAA Concludes: The NCAA is Still Not a State Actor ‘Ethics, Coach’s Contracts and Randy Edsall v. Citizen’s Ethics Advisory Board’ Wani v. George Fox University — A Case Study in Handling Student-Athlete Complaints on the Field and In the Locker Room Greenberg Traurig Forms Video Game and Esports Group; Eyes Billion-Dollar Industry Sports Lawyer Takes the Helm as Next Vanderbilt Athletics Director NFL Expands Rooney Rule Requirements to ‘Strengthen Diversity’ Mitten Receives AALS’ Section on Law and Sports Award The Threat of Drones at Sporting Events Leads to New Entries in the Drone Detection Technology Space The Threat of Concussions Is Chasing Bull Riders From the Sport New Legislation Proposed In The State of Washington Pushes For Student-Athlete Compensation In Defiance of NCAA Bylaws Why the Growing Presence of American Sports in the UK Poses Brand Protection Challenges Match-Fixing in eSports and the Effect of the Supreme Court’s Gambiling Decision on the Industry Los Angeles Rams Settle Portion of St. Louis PSL-Related Litigation — Part One in a Series Can LeMelo Play College Basketball Without Running Afoul of NCAA Rules? Appellate Court Reverses Lower Court, Finds Former College Coaches’ Breach of Contract Claim Can Continue Court Dismisses Former College Kicker’s Claim He Was Cut in Violation of Disabilities Laws Court: ADA Claim Involving Football Player With One Kidney Can Continue Court Rules Against Former NFL Player/High School Football Coach Who Claimed Defendants Violated His Constitutional Rights New York State Appeals Court Sides With Hockey Rink, Finds Player Assumed Risk
