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August 6 Webinar Seeks to Answer Following Questions: Can College Sports Resume Play Safely? How Will the NCAA, Conferences and Universities Play it?

Jackson Lewis P.C. will host a webinar on August 6, from 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST, that addresses the most challenging issues facing colleges and universities for the upcoming Fall 2020 semester — campus safety, risk mitigation, and sports. To register, go here. The speakers for the webinar from the firm’s collegiate and professional…
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NCAA issues next set of return-to-sport guidelines

Third installment of recommendations outlines daily self-health checks, testing within 72 hours of competition for high contact risk sports The NCAA Sport Science Institute released today the Resocialization of Collegiate Sport: Developing Standards for Practice and Competition to extend previous guidance and provide updated recommendations about the protection of athletes and prevention of community spread…
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Campus Health Project to Speak at LEAD1 Association’s COVID-19 Testing Webinar

Shares knowledge on how collegiate athletic departments can execute a winning COVID-19 testing plan Campus Health Project (CHP), higher education’s trusted COVID-19 testing partner, today announced that its company executives will speak at an upcoming COVID-19 testing webinar hosted by LEAD1 Association (LEAD1), which represents athletics directors at 130-member schools of the Football Bowl Subdivision…
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Sports Law Professor Sees Legal Problems for Schools Dropping Non-Conference Games

The Big Ten Conference’s decision to cancel all non-conference football games for the upcoming season — and the possibility that schools in other major conferences may soon follow — raises a number of potential legal issues, says Nathaniel Grow, associate professor of business law and ethics at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. “Depending…
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Louisville Sport Administration Doctoral Students Write About Youth Sport Concussion Legislation

(Editor’s Note: University of Louisville Sport Administration Doctoral Students Jessica R. Murfree, M.A., Nicholas M. Swim, M.S., & Chelsea C. Police, M.S. recently wrote the following article for Hackney Publications. Entitled “Youth Sport Concussion Legislation: Nonstandard Standards of Care,” it appeared in Sports Litigation Alert and Concussion Litigation Reporter.) In 2014, the Center for Disease…
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Study Has Huge, and Positive, Implications for Restarting Sports – Move Forward!

Move forward NBA, MLB, NFL, and NCAA. A recent study suggested that herd immunity can be achieved with just 43 percent of the population having immunity. The implications are that you continue to protect the vulnerable. Sorry elderly and those with comorbidities. You are not attending mass gatherings such as a sporting contest until we…
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Campus Health Project (CHP) Launches to Meet Collegiate Athletics’ Growing Demand COVID-19 Testing Capacity

In response to surging demand for critical COVID-19 testing capacity among colleges and universities, the Campus Health Project (CHP), higher education’s trusted COVID-19 testing partner, has launched its national initiative dedicated to helping higher education institutions secure the COVID-19 testing capacity and logistical support they need to resume campus life for Fall 2020 and beyond.…
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Power Five Head Football Coach Predicts September Will be ‘Pretty Close to Normal’

Texas A&M Head Football Coach Jimbo Fisher remains optimistic he will see mask-wearing crowds at Kyle Field when the Aggies take the field against the Abilene Christian Wildcats on Sept. 5. “I am very encouraged because our governor has opened up outside sports to 50 percent now, I mean this early” Fisher said. “I expect…
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Tennessee Titans Name Daniel Werly General Counsel, Former GC Burke Nihill Elevated to President/CEO

Daniel Werly, a veteran sports lawyer who brings experience from a wide variety of areas in the field, has been named general counsel of the Tennessee Titans. Werly, whose first day was June 8, replaces Burke Nihill, who was elevated to President/CEO. Werly, who is also an Adjunct Professor of Sports Law at Vanderbilt University…
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NFL Hires Lawyer as Executive Vice President of Communications, Public Affairs and Policy

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell had hired Jeff Miller as the league’s new Executive Vice President of Communications, Public Affairs and Policy. Miller will be responsible for managing the league’s communications and public affairs. He will maintain his health and safety portfolio in addition to taking on his new role. Miller will continue to report directly…
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