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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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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(Editor’s Note: What follows is an excerpt from Sports Litigation Alert. It is one of more than a dozen article s that appear issue. The Alert publishes every two weeks and is available by subscription here.) By Robert J. Romano, St. John’s University, Division of Sports Management During the 2019 football season, NCAA member institutions…
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The Association of Corporate Counsel (Southern California) and Jackson Lewis P.C. will host a complimentary webinar on November 12, from 10 to 11 a.m. PST, that will address how California’s employment laws impact sports industry. Headlining the panel are Gregg E. Clifton and Adam Y. Siegel, of firm Jackson Lewis P.C. Clifton bases in Phoenix…
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The Drake Group issued a position statement applauding The Student Athlete Level Playing Field Act , introduced on September 14, 2020 by a bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives: Anthony Gonzalez (OH), Emanuel Cleaver (MO), Marcia Fudge (OH), Steve Stivers (OH), Rodney Davis (IL), Jeffrey Duncan (SC), Josh Gottheimer (NJ) and Colin Allred (TX). The Act, if…
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The Horizon League Board of Directors announced last week the selection of Julie Roe Lach as Commissioner effective January 1, 2021. Roe Lach has served as the Deputy Commissioner for the Horizon League since 2014 overseeing strategic and financial planning, League governance and television and sponsorship management. Her responsibilities also included men’s basketball oversight, including…
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NCAA and Big Ten officials are being asked once more to commence an investigation of Ohio State’s decades-long cover-up of Dr. Richard Strauss’s sexual abuse of nearly 1,500 students and student-athletes. Last week, nearly 200 Strauss survivors and student-athletes requested that the NCAA and Big Ten Conference launch an investigation to hold Ohio State accountable…
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University of Florida Athletic Director Scott Stricklin sent a COVID Update out this morning to the “Gator Nation” about the football program, which was forced to cancel its game with LSU last weekend and Missouri this weekend because of the virus. “Not only have the Gators Sports Health Staff continued telehealth appointments with the players…
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