[1] Brittney Griner, a WNBA champion with the Phoenix Mercury and two-time Olympic gold medalist with the US women’s national basketball team, was detained in Russia on February 17, a week before Russia invaded Ukraine.[2] Griner, one of the best women’s basketball players in the world, had been in Russia to compete for UMMC Yekaterinburg,... Continue Reading →
[1] Nike Basketball announced last Monday that it has inked NIL endorsement contracts with five well-recognized high school and college basketball players including three top high school prospects – Juju Watkins, Bronny James, and DJ Wagner – and two standout women’s college basketball players — Stanford’s Haley Jones and Iowa’s Caitlin Clark.[2] In 2021, all... Continue Reading →
(Image via NHL) Last week, the Seattle Kraken promoted Alexandra Mandrycky, the club’s former Director of Hockey Strategy and Research, to the position of Assistant General Manager. Mandrycky highlights a barrier-breaking year in which six women have been promoted to Assistant GM positions across the league. Mandrycky’s roots are in analytics, making her the first... Continue Reading →
College athletes across the country are rejoicing about the new NIL regulations finally put into place recently that allow them to profit off their own name, image, and likeness. While this change was long overdue for college athletes, not all athletes have been lucky enough to reap the benefits of NIL. International athletes have not... Continue Reading →
"It only took this long?" That was the reaction of my teenage daughter to the news that US Women's Soccer has FINALLY achieved its objective of equal pay with the men's team. The great news: the US Women's & Men's Soccer Teams have each ratified a collective bargaining agreement that actually does provide equality in... Continue Reading →
Ms. Brock joined the LA Clippers in April 2021 as Counsel, Business and Legal Affairs, and was promoted to Associate General Counsel in November 2021. As AGC, Ms. Brock provides legal advice to the team on a variety of matters including sponsorship, marketing, entertainment/IP, labor and employment, and data privacy. She negotiates and drafts various... Continue Reading →
A dream of mine dating back to the time I was in middle school was to work in the business side of baseball, ideally for a team or the league office. As I got older, I realized the part of the business that intersects most closely with professional athletes is labor and employment law, since... Continue Reading →
[1] On March 14, just three days before the start of this year’s March Madness tournament, Congress sent a six-page letter to NCAA President Mark Emmert accusing the organization of making “inadequate progress’’ in addressing “historically disparate” treatment of male and female athletes.[2] The letter claimed that the NCAA is “violating the spirit of gender... Continue Reading →
[1] On Thursday, March 3, Iowa became the latest state, among ten others, to enact legislation restricting transgender athletes when Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law House File 2416. [ii] House File 2416, effective immediately, bans transgender girls and women in Iowa from competing in sports according to their gender identity.[iii] The Iowa law... Continue Reading →
Photo Via: USA Today Russian Customs officials detained WNBA star, Brittany Griner, for possessing vape cartridges containing hashish oil, that were found in her luggage I. Overview The geopolitical landscape of the world right now is fragile — to say the least. With war and destruction taking place in Ukraine after Russian President Vladmir Putin... Continue Reading →