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Collegiate & Professional Sports Law Blog
NCAA Baseball Coach Fired After Only One Season Following Scholarship Controversy
By Gregg E. Clifton, John G. Long
Alabama baseball coach Greg Goff was fired after one season at the helm of the Crimson Tide baseball program after a disappointing 19-34-1 overall record and a 5-24-1 record against…
Collegiate & Professional Sports Law Blog
NCAA To Address Historic Early Recruiting Legislation
By Gregg E. Clifton, Jackson Lewis P.C.
Landmark reform to restrict colleges’ aggressive early recruiting tactics of student-athletes is on the agenda at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Council April 12-14 annual meeting. One item,…
DuetsBlog
April Madness, the NCAA’s One Month Buffer?
By Steve Baird®
We write a lot here about the scope and strength of trademark rights and how that determination is often intertwined to making intelligent likelihood of confusion determinations. Does "April Madness"…
Broadcast Law Blog
It’s March Madness! … It’s April Madness! … Be Wary of Using the NCAA’s Trademarks
Less than a week ago, the National Collegiate Athletic Association filed a trademark infringement action in federal court against a company that runs online sports-themed promotions and contests under the marks…
DuetsBlog
The Big Ten and the NCAA Tip Off for MARCH Marks
By Tim Sitzmann
You don't have to be a sports fan to be aware of MARCH MADNESS, the name associated with the annual tournament to determine the college basketball national champion. The tournament…
World of Employment
Another Setback for Student Athletes … or Is It?
By Dexter Pearce, Karen O'Connor
On December 5, 2016, Berger v. National Collegiate Athletic Association brought a major setback for those advocating that “student athletes” deserve to be compensated for their contributions to the multi-billion-dollar industry…
Sports Shorts
Sports Broadcasts and ‘fair dealing’ – the 8 second rule.
It will be well known to the readers of this blog that media companies will pay eye watering amounts of money for the rights to broadcast major sporting events. It…
Collegiate & Professional Sports Law Blog
Supreme Court Declines To Consider Antitrust Case Against NCAA
By Amy L. Peck, Gregg E. Clifton
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a decision holding that NCAA athletes did not have to be paid beyond the cost of attending college. NCAA v. O’Bannon, Nos.…
Collegiate & Professional Sports Law Blog
Sports Events Move Out Over North Carolina ‘Bathroom Bill’
First it was the National Basketball Association. Then, the National Collegiate Athletic Association joined in. Now, the Atlantic Coast Conference has followed the other governing bodies in taking punitive action…
The Right Coast
NCAA to move 7 championships from North Carolina due to HB2 law
The NCAA announced on Monday the relocation of seven previously awarded championship events including NCAA tournament games in Greensboro from the state of North Carolina during the 2016-17 academic year as…