[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 →
Just last week I wrote about the decisions by Nebraska and Arizona State to fire their head football coaches only a few weeks into the 2022 regular season.[1] Less than a few hours after that post went live, on September 26, 2022, another major college football coach was relieved of his duties. Specifically, Georgia Tech... Continue Reading →
Changing Landscape Within the past two years, college sports have been turned upside down with major programs changing conferences. In college sports, there are 5 Power Conferences that are the main players and bring in the most revenue: The SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 12, and ACC. The Big 12 and The Pac 12... Continue Reading →
This past Friday, September 2nd, the College Football Playoff Board of Managers unanimously voted to expand the current 4-team playoff structure to a 12-team format by 2026.[1] The new format will include the six highest-ranked conference champions, along with six at-large teams. Id. Moreover, the four highest tanked conferences champions will be seeded one through... Continue Reading →
This series is a discussion of the legal issues in the sports world amid the novel coronavirus. This is a first for our forum, where each of our contributors will be authoring at least one post, discussing either the sports world now, or what will likely happen in the future, during this unprecedented time. One... Continue Reading →
Image Credit: Spenser Davis/Dallas News The last two college offseasons have involved hundreds of athletes utilizing the "transfer portal," and, to date, the value of this process cannot be ignored. Starting Oct. 15, 2018, student athletes were allowed to enter their names into a transfer portal, which allowed schools to initiate contact with them. However,... Continue Reading →