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Survey Yields Ten Ways Sports Litigation Alert Can Be Used in the Classroom, as a Complement or In Place of a Textbook

May 6, 2026

By Anna Giambelluca, Esq. Sports law presents a built-in teaching challenge. The field itself evolves quickly—courts are almost constantly addressing questions about athlete rights, institutional liability, gender equity, labor relations, and league authority. Yet the primary teaching tool in many classrooms remains the textbook, which is effectively frozen in time at the moment it is…
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NIL and International Student-Athletes: Overview and Analysis of the Current Climate

April 30, 2026

(Editor’s Note: The following is reprinted from NIL Institutional Report.) By Mallory Gault Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) rights have transformed the world of college athletics and has allowed student-athletes the opportunities to profit off their personal brand, yet those opportunities are not available to all student-athletes. Keith Miller, vice president at Influxer, spoke about…
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Skillman Guides BSK as It Assists Colleges and Universities Through the Turmoil that Is Collegiate Athletics

April 27, 2026

(Editor’s Note: The following is shared from the pages of the April issue of Legal Issues in Collegiate Athletics.) Bond Schoeneck & King (BSK) is a preeminent law firm in collegiate athletics, where its reputation quite naturally precedes itself. That reputation was decades in the making, nurtured primarily by two high-profile sports lawyers – Mike…
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Toledo Law Graduate Named School’s Associate Athletic Director of Compliance

April 23, 2026

The University of Toledo has announced the appointment of Lauren Best-Hovermale as Associate Athletic Director of Compliance. Best-Hovermale, a 2021 UToledo College of Law graduate, joins the Rockets following five years of service in the athletics compliance office at Bowling Green State University. Best-Hovermale also served as an athletics compliance extern at Toledo in 2020-21.…
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U.S. Senator Calls on Congress to Fix College Sports

April 20, 2026

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, has penned an op-ed that calls on Congress to fix college athletics to protect students from exploitation and set them up for success. Last week, Cassidy led a full Committee hearing with former student-athletes and university officials discussing…
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National Sports Law Leader Joins the Emergetic Sports Team

April 17, 2026

Emergetic Sports, a division of Emergetic, LLC (“Emergetic”), a boutique strategic advisory firm focused on the transformation of college athletics through its Project Northstar initiative, today announced that Gabe Feldman, one of the nation’s foremost experts in college athletics and sports law, has joined the firm as Senior Education Advisor. Feldman serves as Director of Tulane University’s Sports Law…
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Hackney Publications Bundles NIL Institutional Report with a Subscription to Legal Issues in Collegiate Athletics

April 7, 2026

Hackney Publications (HP), the nation’s leading publisher of sports law periodicals, announced today that it will provide subscribers of Legal Issues in Collegiate Athletics with a complimentary subscription to NIL Institutional Report. “This made sense, given that the subject matter we are reporting on in these publications is different, yet is intertwined in a myriad of…
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Hackney Publications Refreshes Its Directory of ‘100 Law Firms with Sports Law Practices You Need to Know About’

March 18, 2026

100lawfirms.com is a portal that recognizes excellence and serves as a resource for those in need of experienced and capable legal counsel in the sports law arena. Hackney Publications announced today that it has published the sixth annual “100 Law Firms with Sports Law Practices You Need to Know About,” which is a directory that serves…
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Cincinnati Is Testing the Limits of Liquidated Damages in Federal Court in NIL Case

March 17, 2026

(Editor’s Note: What follows is an exclusive article from Sports Litigation Alert written by Landis Barber is an attorney at Safran Law Offices. The Alert publishes 24 times a year, and subscribers have access to a searchable archive of 6,000 case summaries and articles.) The University of Cincinnati has filed a breach of contract action…
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A Turning Point for Rule Enforcement in the Post-House Era

March 13, 2026

In a provocative post this morning, Tim Nevius of dispute resolution provider Fair Sports (https://www.fairsports.org/) writes the following: “Eighteen Nebraska football players have reportedly challenged the College Sports Commission’s (CSC) rejection of their NIL agreements with PlayFly, Nebraska’s multimedia rights partner and a third-party sponsor. The contracts, reportedly worth more than $1 million collectively, were…
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