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National Sports Law Leader Joins the Emergetic Sports Team

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

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’

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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A Turning Point for Rule Enforcement in the Post-House Era

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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Former UM Athletes Sue to Push Boundaries for NIL Comp Past 2016; Expert Weighs In

(The following is shared from Sports Litigation Alert, which publishes 24 times a year, and features a searchable archive of more than 6,000 articles and case summaries.) By Luke Price Four former University of Michigan football players have filed a proposed class action seeking to extend the reach of name, image, and likeness (“NIL”) compensation…
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Peter Carfagna, George Pyne Join FAIR Sports

FAIR Sports, a newly established arbitration and resolution forum for college athletes, has announced that Peter Carfagna and George Pyne have been added to its team. Peter Carfagna — Arbitrator / Mediator Peter is Chairman & CEO of Magis, LLC, a privately owned sports marketing, management, and investment company, and serves on the boards of…
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Recent Court Ruling in NIL-Visa Lawsuit: A New Era for International College Athletes?

(From the pages of NIL Institutional Report) By Marcela Bermudez, of Greenspoon Marder On September 19, 2025, U.S. District Court Judge Brian Jackson denied the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services’ (USCIS) motion to dismiss the NIL-visa lawsuit involving former Louisiana State University student and basketball player Last-Tear Poa, who now plays for Arizona State. This…
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Sports Law Attorney John Long Joins Kutak Rock

Kutak Rock has announced that attorney John G. Long has joined the firm’s Irvine office, departing Bond Schoeneck & King, a law firm that specializes in collegiate athletics law. Long, who also did a stint at Jackson Lewis, brings more than a decade of experience representing universities, coaches and sports organizations in high-profile collegiate and…
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Texas AG Sends Let­ters to Uni­ver­si­ties and State AGs to ‘Oppose Unlaw­ful CSC Agree­ment that Would Hurt Schools and Under­mine Col­lege Sports’

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sent a letter to Texas universities in the ACC, Big 12, and SEC urging them not to sign the College Sports Commission’s (“CSC”) University Participation Agreement, which gives practically unlimited authority to the CSC and undermines participating universities. The Attorney General has also sent a letter to State Attorneys…
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What Are the Best Resources for Sports Law Research? A Practical Guide for Attorneys, Professors, and Students

Sports law sits at the intersection of multiple complex disciplines—labor law, antitrust, intellectual property, tort liability, contracts, Title IX, NIL compliance, and league governance. Because issues move quickly and litigation evolves in real time, high-quality research tools are essential for practitioners, scholars, and students. Whether you’re drafting a memo, building a syllabus, preparing a lecture,…
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