After a phenomenal season capped off by winning their third World Series victory in the last five seasons[1], the Los Angeles Dodgers picked up the offseason right where they left off by winning the bidding war over superstar outfielder Kyle Tucker.[2] Tucker, 29, spent the last season with the Chicago Cubs before becoming one of... Continue Reading →
Expanding the PWHL: Questions and Considerations
The Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) was founded in 2023. The original league featured six teams from New York, Boston, Minnesota, Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto. The league played the first two seasons with these six teams. At the end of the second season, the PWHL announced that it would expand from six teams to eight,... Continue Reading →
Small Wins, Big Gap: Why the WNBA’s Latest CBA Offer Falls Short
After six weeks of silence, the WNBA finally delivered. On Friday evening, February 6, the league submitted its latest collective bargaining agreement proposal to the players union– a counter-offer the players had been waiting for since submitting their own proposal back in December. However, what arrived was a mixed bag; incremental progress on player demands... Continue Reading →
Paid Athletes and the Impact on Liability for Providers
Formerly “amateur” athletes are earning substantial amounts of money, which has led to providers being concerned with liability if something goes wrong. The recent changes to NCAA practices now allowing NIL deals create the possibility of more malpractice lawsuits against team physicians and other medical providers.[1] It is now common for high-profile college athletes to... Continue Reading →
The Credible Threat: Superstar Leverage, Team Dependence, and the Limits of Contractual Authority in the NBA
The NBA’s labor market is often framed as a balance between player autonomy and team control, but that framing obscures a deeper structural reality: superstar players and teams do not operate with symmetrical power, even though both are bound by the same collective bargaining agreement. The relationship between Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks... Continue Reading →
Power Four Remains at Odds with CSC over Contract
If you follow college sports in any capacity, you understand that the landscape has been rapidly evolving over the last decade. All the changes from transfer portal to NIL have led to the creation of the College Sports Commission (CSC), which is a new entity specifically created to enforce the terms of the House v.... Continue Reading →
Brady Not Allowing his Patriot Past To Get in The Way of His Obligations as Commentator and Owner
Those who have followed the NFL this season will remember that towards the beginning of the season Tom Brady was under fire for being in the Raiders’ coaching booth with a headset on despite engaging in Fox Sports production meetings where he gained insight other people around the league didn’t yet have.[1] As that conflict-of-interest... Continue Reading →
Ryan Wedding Arrested on Eve of 2026 Winter Olympics
With the 2026 Winter Olympics set to start later this week, a former Team Canada snowboarder has been brought to justice after being on the FBI’s most wanted list since March 2025.[1] Ryan Wedding, the former Olympic snowboarder who represented Team Canada in the 2002 Olympics, has finally been arrested after being on the run... Continue Reading →
Winning at What Cost? Michigan Football and a Pattern of Controversy
In 2023, the Michigan Wolverines achieved their dreams and won the College Football National Championship. Shortly after, head coach Jim Harbaugh accepted a job coaching the Los Angeles Chargers in the National Football League.[1] With Harbaugh’s departure Michigan was left searching for a replacement, one they found in Sherrone Moore.[2] Moore was hired in January... Continue Reading →
College Football Playoffs causes controversy once again with the playoff bracket for the 2025-26 season
Since the creation of the College Football Playoff, there has always been some controversy surrounding who gets the chance to play for a national title. But this year, tensions surrounding the playoff bracket have boiled over. The format for this year bracket was as follows: The top 5 ranked conference champions receive automatic qualifiers, with... Continue Reading →