Law and Politics

A House v. NCAA settlement might be coming, but employment status remains a looming battle

Journal - 05/13/2024 | Journal - 05/13/2024 | CU Professor News - 05/10/2024 | Unpacks Newsletter - 05/10/2024 | Unpacks Lite Newsletter - 05/10/2024

UAB head coach Trent Dilfer’s voice boomed around the Blazers’ team meeting room. Dilfer, who won a Super Bowl as quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens, spent ample time ahead of the meeting chatting with higher-ups at Athletes.org, a budding player organization angling to...

Speaking of Fred: Quotes from industry peers

Journal - 04/22/2024

“If I was given a gift, it was being able to get along with people — any and everybody. I think, in general, most people like having a relationship with people who get along with other people. That’s just kind of how I’ve built my career and how...

The Fred Whitfield File

Journal - 04/22/2024

Born: 1958, Greensboro, N.C. Family: Wife, Mary Education: Campbell University, bachelor of business administration in economics (1980) and co-captain of the basketball team two years; Campbell’s Lundy-Fetterman School of Business MBA (1983); also served as a men’s basketball graduate assistant...

Champions 2024: Fred Whitfield

Journal - 04/22/2024 | Unpacks Newsletter - 04/22/2024 | Journal - 04/22/2024

Editor’s note: This is the first profile in our 2024 Class of Champions: Pioneers & Innovators. Seated with arms folded on a sofa in his suburban Charlotte home, Fred Whitfield considered a question that he had pondered on and off in the months since announcing he...

Nike’s battle for innovation: Patent disputes and legal complexity

Unpacks Newsletter - 04/10/2024

In the fiercely competitive realm of athletic footwear and apparel, innovation is the cornerstone to success, with patents as the ultimate safeguard for groundbreaking advancements. No company embodies this essence more fervently than Nike, the global powerhouse synonymous with sports and style. However, beneath the iconic swoosh lies a...

Considering the implications of the NLRB regional office’s Dartmouth decision

Unpacks Newsletter - 04/01/2024

In a February decision, a National Labor Relations Board regional director held that Dartmouth men’s basketball players were employees for purposes of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and entitled to unionize. In March, the team voted 13-2 to form a union, the same day that Dartmouth appealed the...

Sports industry reacts to legislation to ban TikTok in the U.S. if it’s not sold

Journal - 04/01/2024 | Journal - 04/01/2024 | CU Professor News - 03/29/2024 | Unpacks Newsletter - 03/29/2024

Sports has often been the home for innovation, notably on social media, which has helped athletes, teams and leagues get ahead of the game. The latest platform to surge is TikTok, but the sports world is waiting to see what happens as lawmakers discuss a potential...

Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani 'shocked' over Ippei Mizuhara's betting, lies

Unpacks Newsletter - 03/25/2024 | Unpacks Lite Newsletter - 03/25/2024

Dodgers P/DH Shohei Ohtani read a statement Monday evening in which he denied having ever bet on sports while accusing his former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara , of theft, fraud and lying. Ohtani spoke for over 11 minutes from the press room at Dodger Stadium in what...

ALL IN: Leadership calls for courage in polarizing times

Unpacks Newsletter - 03/19/2024 | Unpacks Lite Newsletter - 03/19/2024

The first of SBJ's quarterly ALL IN sessions for 2024 tackled a problem that's going to persist in the U.S. for the near future -- how to be a leader when the only thing opposing sides can agree on is that they can't agree on anything, and even the...

Does ‘sports law’ really exist? The multitude of individualized legal issues that arise in sports

Unpacks Newsletter - 03/11/2024

When applying to law school, I sought schools with “sports law” programs. I had been an athlete my entire life, through college, and wanted to combine my love of sports with a legal career. Like many young law students interested in sports, I figured I would become a sports...

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A House v. NCAA settlement might be coming, but employment status remains a looming battle

Speaking of Fred: Quotes from industry peers

The Fred Whitfield File

Champions 2024: Fred Whitfield

Nike’s battle for innovation: Patent disputes and legal complexity

Considering the implications of the NLRB regional office’s Dartmouth decision

Sports industry reacts to legislation to ban TikTok in the U.S. if it’s not sold

Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani 'shocked' over Ippei Mizuhara's betting, lies

ALL IN: Leadership calls for courage in polarizing times

Does ‘sports law’ really exist? The multitude of individualized legal issues that arise in sports

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