UB Law Sports & Entertainment Forum

Repeal of Permission to Contact is the first of many steps the NCAA needs to take to do right by Division I transfers.  Last Wednesday afternoon, the NCAA altered one major pillar of its current transfer regime. Starting October 15, where a student-athlete who previously sought to change schools needed to secure a release from … Continue reading A big step forward, but NCAA Division I transfers are still “basically screwed”

Kathy Twist, Senior Associate Athletic Director for Sports Administration & Senior Woman Administrator, Sharon Nolan-Weiss, UB Director of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, and Nellie Drew, Sports Law professor, will be presenting a panel discussion on diversity and inclusion in athletics on June 19th in Albany.   The presentation, entitled "Diversity & Inclusion in Athletics:  Legalities, Policies … Continue reading UB Panel to Present on Diversity & Inclusion in Athletics at National Conference

The timing is more than a little ironic.  Just as the Milwaukee Police Department released video showing Bucks guard Sterling Brown being tasered for double parking in a handicapped spot in front of a Walgreen's -- at 2:00 am -- the NFL issues its new anthem "policy".  The Milwaukee Police Department disciplined the officers involved … Continue reading The NFL Anthem Protest: Reconciling the Land of the Free AND the Home of the Brave

  The great thing about being a sports law "academic" is the ability to take a birds-eye view of  "sports" and both laud and critique developments and trends.  Too often, of late, as in society as a whole, the critique has far overwhelmed any positive developments.  Tonight, however, I was privileged to attend a very … Continue reading The Way It Should Be . . .

. . . and the next good legal challenge will strip it of its power.  As the battle over student-athlete compensation is more present in the national conversation than ever before, it is important to understand why the NCAA and its member institutions can refuse to pay college athletes. The simple answer is that  the Supreme Court … Continue reading The Supreme Court helped create today’s NCAA Cartel

given the proper "legal framework." Two weeks ago Condoleeza Rice's Committee to Reform College Basketball addressed, but refused to recommend how to address student-athlete compensation for use of name, image and likeness (NIL) because the issue was currently on trial before Judge Claudia Wilken of the Federal District Court for Northern District of California. Hours … Continue reading Condoleeza Rice now endorses student-athlete NIL Compensation . . .