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NIL Deal Structure for Student-Athletes, Businesses, and Institutions
BY: RJ CURINGTON Student-athletes across all collegiate sports have signed name, image, and likeness (“NIL”) agreements with businesses....
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Oct 4, 20214 min read


Bringing Down the House: The NCAA and the Power 5 Conferences Response in NIL Litigation
On Wednesday, September 22, 2021, the NCAA and each of the Power 5 Conferences filed an answer in In Re College Athlete NIL Litigation...
John Sigety
Oct 1, 20214 min read
NIL – New Intraconference Lucrativeness
BY: MICHAEL MILLSTEIN While many of us anticipated that 2020 had cemented its legacy as the craziest year of the current decade, those in...
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Sep 30, 20214 min read
NLRB General Counsel: College Athletes ARE Employees
Amidst several ongoing lawsuits where college athletes are asserting that they are employees of the universities they play at under the...
Grant Williamson
Sep 29, 20214 min read
“College Athletes are Employees”, says NLRB, Potentially Clearing the Path for Unionization
In yet another win for college athletes, National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo has issued a memo that...
John Nucci
Sep 29, 20213 min read
Alcohol & The NCAA: Opening Up Pandora’s Beer Case
The classic sit-com Cheers went off the air in May of 1993, but a reboot might be in the works in South Florida. Instead of “Hey, Norm!”...
Conlan Farrell
Sep 28, 20213 min read
In NIL, College Coaches Might Only Be As Good As Their Local Businesses
When NIL came into effect, many people predicted there would be a plethora of “unintended consequences'' in the college athletics...
Brendan Bell
Sep 28, 20213 min read
Note to Business Student-Athletes: Don’t Forget Taxes
BY: RJ CURINGTON The National Collegiate Athletic Associations and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics new name, image,...
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Sep 24, 20214 min read
The NIL Era Does Not Actually Disadvantage Small Sport Student-Athletes
A major argument against allowing student-athletes to profit off their name, image, and likeness (“NIL”) that was made pre-Alston and is...
Grant Williamson
Sep 23, 20214 min read
The Ongoing Ripple Effect of NIL Laws
BY: JOHN AZZATO Name, image, and likeness. Three words that, in just a few months, have changed the landscape of sports forever. NIL laws...
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Sep 21, 20213 min read
An Update on the Western Michigan University Vaccine Mandate Case
When I previously wrote about the lawsuit being brought by four Western Michigan University soccer players for Conduct Detrimental –...
Grant Williamson
Sep 20, 20213 min read
Misery Loves Company: The AAC Has Its Own Loss Via Conference Realignment
Ever since the first wave of conference realignment about 10 years ago, there has been an arbitrary dividing line between the 10 FBS...
Brendan Bell
Sep 15, 20214 min read
How the NCAA Dropped the Ball on NIL
BY: CAITLIN PARISE I have come to realize that there is still a lot of confusion lingering behind what NIL means and its business in the...
condetrimental
Sep 15, 20216 min read
How the NCAA’s New NIL Policy May Lead to “Buckets” of Money for Bueckers
BY: EMILY COSTANZO As a freshman playing for a program that is oftentimes described as a “dynasty,” it would be understandable if...
condetrimental
Sep 10, 20213 min read
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