College Football — Wisconsin Sues Miami for Tampering With Football Transfer

Jul 16, 2025 | Business Law, News, Sports Law

The University of Wisconsin filed a lawsuit Friday claiming that the Miami football team broke the law by tampering with a Badgers player, a first-of-its-kind legal attempt to enforce the terms of a financial contract between a football player and his school. The...

FIFA Abandons Principles Once Again by Dropping Anti-Racism Messages

Jul 16, 2025 | Civil Rights, Discrimination, News, Olympics, Sports Law

A month after FIFA president Gianni Infantino said racism and bigotry were such a blight on the beautiful game that offenders deserve criminal penalties, the federation seems to have lost the messages that had become a staple of its anti-discrimination campaigns. The...

There’s $1 billion in Trump’s tax bill for the LA Olympics in 2028. So how will that money be used?

Jul 16, 2025 | Business Law, News, Olympics, Sports Law

Just a few lines in the nearly 1,000-page tax and spending cut bill signed into law on July 4 by President Donald Trump mean big money for the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles. There, among a list of State Homeland Security Grant Programs funded by the bill, is $1...

EU human rights court rules Semenya did not get a fair hearing in sex eligibility case

Jul 16, 2025 | ADR, Civil Rights, News, Olympics, Sports Law

GENEVA (AP) — Two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya won a partial victory at the European Court of Human Rights on Thursday in her seven-year legal fight against track and field’s sex eligibility rules. By GRAHAM DUNBAR and GERALD IMRAY...

NCAA President Charlie Baker highlights modernization and growth in 2025 State of College Sports address

Jan 22, 2025 | News

By NCAA Media Center In his State of College Sports address at the 2025 NCAA Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, NCAA President Charlie Baker reflected on the recent progress made in college sports and outlined future actions to ensure sustainability and growth....

Dispute Resolution in Challenging Times

Jan 15, 2025 | ADR, Articles, Dispute Resolution, News, Publications, Sports Law

The American statesman, Benjamin Franklin, is quoted as writing “but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Add to this list: disagreement and conflict. By Jill Pilgrim in New York Law Journal