Steel Partners Holdings L.P. (OTCQX: SPLP) today announced that Renata Simril, President and CEO of the LA84 Foundation, has joined the Steel Sports Advisory Board. Steel Sports, a subsidiary of Steel Partners, is “focused on putting Kids First and creating a new standard in youth sports and coaching while forging the next generation of leaders.”…
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Professors use Sports Litigation Alert in the classroom primarily to supplement textbooks with current, real-world case studies, fostering better in-class discussion and allowing students to apply legal concepts to up-to-date issues. Key benefits for a professor include: Currency of Information: Textbooks can quickly become outdated in the fast-moving field of sports law. The bi-weekly Alert provides timely summaries…
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The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), the global governing body for motor sport and the federation for mobility organisations worldwide, has announced a landmark research collaboration with the University of Notre Dame. Supported by the FIA Foundation, the collaboration will strengthen the global response to online abuse in sport through joint research and innovation. The…
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A woman, who was “involuntarily forced to view a penis in the women’s locker room at a gym in California, would appear to have a valid cause of action to sue the nude male [M2F transgender] who exhibited his penis to her, even if the gym owners permitted him to expose his genitals to female…
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Carla Varriale-Barker, Chair of the Sports, Recreation and Entertainment Practice Group at Segal McCambridge, and Jeffrey Levine, Associate Clinical Professor in Department of Sport Business at Drexel University, are among those who will be speaking at the annual ABA Sports and Entertainment Forum in Las Vegas on October 23-25, 2025. Varriale-Barker and Levine will be…
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The Women’s Tennis Association [WTA] and International Tennis Federation [ITF] on Tuesday published the first-ever season-wide report outlining the scale of abuse directed at players on social media — and are calling on the gambling industry to more effectively tackle those responsible. The report findings are taken from Signify Group’s Threat Matrix service, which went…
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The U.S. Center for SafeSport (the Center) announced yesterday the election of new board members, representing leaders in sports, health, and business. The Center, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is governed by a board of directors that advises the Center on core business functions, long-term sustainability, strategic planning, and regularly evaluates the Center’s performance through its outcomes and metrics.…
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Nearly 40% of adult Americans say they’ve experienced some type of sport-related mistreatment in their lives, a new study shows. Mistreatment ranged from psychological and emotional to physical and sexual. But most people who reported mistreatment experienced more than one kind, the research found. And one-third of those who never even played organized sports reported…
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The Sports and Recreation Law Association (SRLA) has announced that Chance Miller, the Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics and University Recreation at Coastal Carolina University, will be its keynote speaker for the 38th annual SRLA Conference, being held February 26 to March 1 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The association also announced that it has…
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The Sport and Recreation Law Association (SRLA), whose mission is to further the study and dissemination of information regarding legal aspects of sport and recreation, announced today that it has published Safe at First, making it available through its distribution partner, Hackney Publications, at https://pubs.hackneypublications.com/SRLA/subscribe.html “This is the most detailed risk management guide ever written…
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