Last week, an Illinois jury awarded $2.9M in damages to Brian Holzgrafe, the former tennis coach at Quincy University (QU). The award is for Holzgrafe’s counterclaims against a former QU student-athlete. The $2.9M is comprised of $2M for damage to Holzgrafe’s reputation and emotional distress, along with $40,000 for loss of wages and $874,000 in... Continue Reading →
Anti-Doping Updates; Impact of the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act
- The U.S. is Cracking Down with RADA - In recent years, the Olympic Games and international competitions have been peppered with doping scandals. Team Russia and doping scandals have almost become synonymous (read about figure skater Kamila Valieva’s scandal here). However, Russia is not the only offender; other countries have had their fair share... Continue Reading →
Could You Give Us a Twirl: Sexism in Media Coverage of Female Athletes
"Could you give us a twirl and tell us about your outfit?"[2] This question was posed to Canadian tennis player Eugenie Bouchard in an interview at the Australian Open in 2015. Rather than interviewing Bouchard about her winning performance on the court, the interviewer asked Bouchard to comment on her tennis outfit. This interview was highly... Continue Reading →
In Women’s Tennis, Results Don’t Always Pay
Forbes publishes a list of the Top 10 highest grossing female athletes in the world each year, and in 2017, eight of these ten women were tennis players. Among women’s professional sports, tennis is by far the most popular due in large part to the increasingly equal TV face time and prize money the sport’s... Continue Reading →