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Athlete Licensing Company, LLC, Announces Deals With Three Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) Collectives

Athlete Licensing Company (ALC) has announced partnerships with three collectives that have name, image and likeness (NIL) rights to Southeastern Conference (SEC) student-athletes, including the 2021 National Champion Mississippi State baseball players. The Legacy Group, headed by former MSU Associate Athletic Director Lee VanHorn, manages the NIL rights for Mississippi State University student-athletes. The company…
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SRLA Provides More Details on Its February 23-26 Annual Meeting in Atlanta

The Sports and Recreation Law Association (SRLA) will hold its annual meeting – in person – at the Renaissance Midtown Hotel in Atlanta on February 23-26, 2022. The Association, which represents sports law professors typically teaching at the undergraduate level, went virtual with its 2021 conference because of COVID. Conference events include 70 academic presentations/posters…
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Sports Litigation Alert Reports on the Full Breadth of the Sports Law Industry with Timely, Insightful Articles in Last Two Issues

Beneficiaries of the Alert include both the private sector and higher education, where professors use the Alert with thousands of sports law students. As Hackney Publications closes in on the completion of its 18th year of publishing Sports Litigation Alert, publisher Holt Hackney is especially proud of the last two issues. “We’re touching on every…
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LEAD1 Survey Reveals Strong Majority of FBS Athletics Directors Believe Employment Status of College Athletes Would Impact Funding of Non-Revenue Sports

By Hannah Dewey The LEAD1 Association (“LEAD1”), which represents the athletics directors of the 130-member schools of the Football Bowl Subdivision (“FBS”), recently surveyed approximately 100 of its FBS athletics directors on whether the employment status of college athletes would impact funding of non-revenue sports. Of the LEAD1 athletics directors surveyed, more than 90 percent…
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