The latest provocative missive from the Drake Group: On November 16, 2020, USA Today broke a story on nine LSU football players, including two that played key roles on its 2020 national championship team, who were accused of rape, other sexual misconduct and dating violence over a four-year period. Victims’ allegations were either completely ignored…
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The Minnesota Vikings have promoted Karin Nelsen to Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer. Its has been a meteoric rise for Nelson, who joined the NFL team five years ago after stints at Cargill Inc. (Minnesota’s largest private company), Larkin Hoffman, and as a CPA at Touche Ross. At the time of her initial…
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As part of the U.S. Soccer Federation’s “commitment to equality for all U.S. Soccer senior National Team players,” U.S. Soccer has reached an agreement with the U.S. Women’s National Team to resolve the non-compensation related claims raised in current litigation between the USWNT players and U.S. Soccer. Earlier today, the parties filed in court a…
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The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and the National Association of Athletics Compliance are hosting a webinar tomorrow, December 2, from 1 to 2:30 EST. It is entitled Building Institutional Control in the NIL Era – a Webinar. The organizations describe the webinar as follows: “Forthcoming changes to NCAA Name, Image, and Likeness…
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More Americans than not believe that college athletes should be allowed to be paid more than what it costs them to go to school, a new national study of nearly 4,000 people suggests. Findings from the National Sports and Society Survey (NSASS), led by researchers at The Ohio State University, suggest that 51 percent of…
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(What follows is news from the Drake Group today.) The Drake Group, decries an October 16, 2020 NCAA Committee on Infractions decision penalizing college athletes rather than the athletic program administrators who botched the computation of their scholarship checks. Over a three-year period, UMass athletic department administrators failed to properly compute payments when 12 athletes…
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James L. (Jim) Perzik, a sports lawyer who was active in leadership roles with the Los Angeles Lakers has died at the age of 91. The cause of death was reportedly complications arising from COVID 19. Perzik began his career with the Lakers in 1991 as the team’s general counsel. In a statement, the Perzik…
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Spry Payment Systems, Inc. (Spry), a technology company that creates a way for colleges and student athletes to embrace the Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) movement, has announced that Oral Roberts University Athletics (ORU) will test its NIL platform. What separates Spry from other companies in the space is that its platform was built from…
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Industry insiders believe the spotlight afforded by COVID-19-related shutdowns and restrictions will generate increased investment and deal activity for esports in the near term. Yet, as the third annual Esports Survey Report shows, even esports isn’t immune to the pandemic’s effects. The report is available at here. Conducted by law firm Foley & Lardner LLP…
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Irwin Kishner, co-chair of Herrick’s Sports Law Group, was quoted in Law360 discussing how voters in Maryland, South Dakota and Louisiana approved ballot measures to legalize sports betting, joining 22 other states and the District of Columbia. The article reports that this “state-by-state approach to legalization has created challenges for betting operators, limiting a potential national market.”…
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