Sports Law News for the Week Ending December 31st
By Bennett Liebman
Supreme Court Ruling on Alston, NIL Lead Top 5 Sports Law Events 2021
https://www.sportico.com/law/analysis/2021/supreme-court-ruling-1234648352/
Fake USC Basketball Recruit Dad Loses Bid for New Triaj
https://www.sportico.com/law/analysis/2021/fake-usc-basketball-recruit-dad-1234651311/
Court Report: How omicron variant of COVID-19 could upend college basketball as leagues flip forfeit rules
For NCAA, year of upheaval leads to need for transformation
https://fox59.com/news/for-ncaa-year-of-upheaval-leads-to-need-for-transformation/
NCAA Reform
https://gazette.com/ap/sports/ncaa-reform/image_98d15e76-7557-5760-9aa6-7327f4783101.html
NIL Momentum Increasing For High School Athletes
'I wanted to do something positive'
https://abc11.com/football-2021-season-student-athletes-nil-rules/11407507/
Why new NIL rules could attract bigger names to college athletics
https://www.wwnytv.com/2021/12/29/why-new-nil-rules-could-attract-bigger-names-college-athletics/
College athletes name image likeness rights: The NIL era's first season
https://slate.com/culture/2021/12/college-athletes-name-image-likeness-nil-pay-first-season.html
Heisman Trophy winner Charlie Ward helping athletes with NIL
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/12/24/charlie-ward-florida-state-nil/
New Notre Dame Coach Discusses Brave New NIL World
https://www.chicagonow.com/patriotic-dissenter/2021/12/new-notre-dame-coach-discusses-brave-new-nil-world/
NHL and NHLPA agree to modify COVID protocol
https://www.nhlpa.com/news/1-22240/nhl-and-nhlpa-agree-to-modify-covid-protocol
Dave Salo Calls NCAA Transgender Policy "An Assault On Women's Sports"
UConn Women's Rowing team Title IX lawsuit settled with university
Commentary: Title IX suffers with transgender inclusion
Difficult times call for strong leadership and Thomas Bach is delivering
Rachel Engleson: Why is the NFL burying its Washington Football Team report?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/23/wft-harassment-nfl-report/
Washington Football: Team President Jason Wright's blunder
If HISA and USADA don't find a way to work together, racing may have no future in America
Impasse derails horse racing's drug testing deal
'How is that fair?'
World Athletics takes aim at the sole of the shoe technology issue
Looking back at year when racism was more than skin deep blog
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1117276/looking-back-in-anguish-at-2021-blog
Western sponsors face balancing act as Beijing 2022 approaches
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1117256/beijing-2022-sponsors-blog