O’Melveny advised the Kansas City Royals on a new multi-year media rights agreement with Sinclair Broadcast Group for FOX Sports Kansas City to continue as the television home of the Royals. The deal closed on August 21, 2020. Years and financial terms were not disclosed. FOX Sports Kansas City will televise 59 of the scheduled…
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The Drake Group, the community of academics advocating for the reform of collegiate athletics, recent addresses the Alston decision and the potential impact upon Title IX: “The Supreme Court on August 11, 2020, denied the motion by the NCAA and eleven conferences to stay the injunction entered in the Alston antitrust lawsuit. That injunction by…
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The Washington Football Team announced yesterday that they have appointed Jason Wright team president. In this role, Wright will be responsible for leading the organization’s business divisions, including operations, finance, sales, and marketing. He will join Coach Ron Rivera, who maintains all on-field responsibilities and football decisions, in reporting directly to team owner, Dan Snyder.…
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Munck Wilson Mandala (http://www.munckwilson.com) has announced that Tasha Schwikert has joined the firm’s Sports Law Practice as an associate. Schwikert brings with her four years of legal experience in corporate, real estate, and construction matters, representing clients in construction agreements, AIA agreements, real estate transactions, and general corporate matters. But she is better known to…
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With the announcement yesterday that it was cancelling its fall championships, the NCAA went ahead this morning and notified vendors that were participating in an RFP to provide COVID testing services that it was postponing the selection process. It did note however that it may re-engage in late October in hopes of settling on a…
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Ellen Zavian, an adjunct sports law professor at the George Washington University School of Law, wrote an interesting article last week for the Washington Post about how “the NCAA whiffed on esports.” Zavian, a frequent contributor to the newspaper, wrote that, given the declining revenues for the NCAA because of the pandemic, the association “might…
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Morgan Stanley Global Sports & Entertainment (GSE) has been named an official Institutional Financial Advisor participant of the NFL Players Association (NFLPA), the official labor union for professional football players in the National Football League In an effort to address the financial needs of its participating athletes, the NFLPA launched its Institutional Financial Advisors Registration…
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If college football calls off the fall season, it will not resume until next fall. Mark it down. Consider that a vaccine likely will not be ready until late winter. I know. I know. The media keeps telling us it is around the corner. And who is feeding them this line of crap, pharmaceutical companies…
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(Editor’s Note: The following excerpt is from an article written by former Oakland Raiders General Counsel Jeff Birren, a long-time senior writer with Hackney Publications. The complete article can be access by subscribing to Professional Sports and the Law.) Philadelphia offensive tackle Lane Johnson is a better football player that a litigant. In 2016 Johnson…
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The Sports & Recreation Law Association has named Nita Unruh, a professor and department chair at the University of Nebraska Kearney, as its new associate executive director. Professor Unruh is currently the Program Chair for the Graduate and Undergraduate Sports Management Programs and Coordinator of the Online Master’s Programs in Physical Education and General KSS…
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