The Briefing: NBA Teams Fight Back Against Trolling – The Validity of the Discovery Rule at Stake
(Podcast) The Briefing: NBA Teams Fight Back Against Trolling – The Validity of the Discovery Rule at Stake
The Labor Law Insider—Dartmouth Men's Basketball Team Unionizes: Air Ball or Nothing But Net?
Inside the NBA with Suzanne Spellacy, General Counsel of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Minnesota Lynx and T-Wolves Gaming
Podcast: The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - March Madness Marketing Rebounds With a New Twist
The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: March Madness Marketing Rebounds With a New Twist
The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: Naming Rights for LA Clippers Dome: FinTech Steps Intuit
Talking with a Time Magazine Female Sports Pioneer Ann Meyers Drysdale, Vice President of the Phoenix Suns & Mercury: On Record PR
When we kicked off Innovation Madness: The Ultimate Basketball Patent Bracket, we asked one simple question: Which basketball invention truly changed the game?...more
Recently, Pennsylvania’s Saint Francis University announced its decision to reclassify its intercollegiate athletics program from NCAA Division I to Division III, citing the difficulty in governance associated with college...more
With brackets finalized and March Madness well underway, it is probably a safe bet that many of you have the University of South Carolina’s women’s team heading to the NCAA Tournament’s final game. As of this writing, the...more
The Dartmouth men’s basketball team is scheduled to tip-off its 2024-25 NCAA season. Not surprisingly, they will do so without a labor contract, notwithstanding the team’s historic vote last March to unionize under federal...more
As a proud South Carolinian, I was delighted to watch the undefeated Gamecocks women’s basketball team take home another NCAA Championship this year. Being the parent of a budding female athlete (when my daughter isn’t busy...more
In a historic election on March 5, 2024, the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team voted 13-2 to unionize. The vote took place exactly one month after an NLRB regional director ruled that Dartmouth men’s basketball players...more
On March 5, 2024, players on the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team voted to unionize, making the group the first college sports team to do so in the United States. Dartmouth College has already filed an appeal with the...more
Reviewing the Major Plays of 2023 - This past year saw major developments in the world of college sports. From challenges to name, image and likeness (NIL) contracts to congressional hearings to proposed NCAA guidelines,...more
March Madness is upon us! Whether you’re filling out multiple brackets or studiously avoiding a certain co-worker because your team missed out, odds are you’re aware the annual men’s and women’s college basketball tournaments...more
Welcome back and please come on in, lest you catch a cold. This past Sunday’s Grammy Awards dialed up the heat, taking place in the Las Vegas desert, having been bumped from its usual Los Angeles stage due to COVID...more
Welcome back to the...— Is there anything you want to say to me? ...Are you sure...? ...You forgot, didn’t you...? Well let me remind you... It’s the first anniversary of this often irreverent, at times poignant,...more
As readers from last week will recall, we spent some time examining the notion of credibility. One week later, we’re witnessing what credibility (or lack thereof) hath wrought on our subjects. Bob Baffert? Banned from New...more
Once again, the Ivy League has sent a loud and clear COVID-19 message to the collegiate sports community. After initially delaying the start of the winter sports schedule until January 2021, the Ivy League Counsel of...more
With the 2019 NCAA Men’s College Basketball Tournament in full swing, most people probably aren’t thinking “hmm, I wonder if the NCAA owns any trademarks related to the Tournament?” But, maybe they should be....more
On August 8, the NCAA announced a number of significant changes to its Division I college basketball bylaws. These changes — which come in response to the 2017 federal criminal investigation alleging fraud in college...more
We are in March. The minds of many turn to March Madness as the NCAA hosts its annual tournament to crown college basketball’s national champion. Of these, many want to take advantage of the tournament to promote their...more
March is upon us, which means spring is near and the sweet smell of tournament brackets will soon fill the air. For many, the month is synonymous with March Madness, the NCAA’s annual tournament that crown’s college...more
The American Gaming Association estimates that Americans will bet a total of $9.2 billion on March Madness brackets, pools and contests this year, an increase of approximately $200 million from last year. While estimates...more
The recent federal appellate decision in O'Bannon v. NCAA may have profound implications for colleges obligated to ensure gender equity in athletics under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX). In the...more