athletics
Courting Fair Play: The Future of the NCAA’s Role in College Sports Governance
Feb. 27, 2024—By Dominic Keilty In the wake of recent judicial rulings against the NCAA, its role in the future governance of college sports is murkier than ever. With no current legislative exemptions for the NCAA, the emerging recognition of a college athlete labor market casts part the organization’s traditional role in doubt. The NCAA’s 2021 decision...
Game-Changer: Shohei Ohtani’s Dodgers Move Sparks Luxury Tax Reform Talks
Jan. 26, 2024—By Hunter Berry Shohei Ohtani is, without doubt, this generation’s Babe Ruth or Jackie Robinson. The 29-year-old has made waves not only throughout the United States, but the world, for a feat few in baseball can achieve at the professional level: serving as a two-way player with the ability to excel as both a pitcher...
Breaking Cultural and Financial Barriers in Olympic Sports
Jan. 18, 2024—Maureen A. Weston | 26 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 347 (2024) Nelson Mandela has said that “[s]port has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does . . . . It is more powerful than...
Tackling Bias in Sport: Recognizing the Impact of Identities
Jan. 18, 2024—Meg Hancock | 26 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 329 (2024) Studies suggest participation in organized sports—from childhood to adulthood—promotes positive physical, social, emotional, and intellectual benefits that impact individuals and their communities over a lifetime. Sports participation in early childhood and adolescence also leads to higher self-esteem, greater wage-earning potential, lower health costs,...
Forget About FERPA: How FOIA Protects Student-Athlete Privacy in the NIL Era
Jan. 18, 2024—Kamron Cox | 26 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 297 (2024) The start of the name, image, and likeness (NIL) era stirred public fervor about the new earning potential of high-profile student-athletes. Since institutional policies and state laws governing NIL require student-athletes to broadly disclose information about their NIL activities to their respective institutions,...
Beyond NIL
Jan. 18, 2024—William W. Berry III | 26 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 275 (2024) The name, image, and likeness (NIL) changes and shifting landscape obscure more existential threats to the student-athlete model on the horizon. The television money that Power Five conference teams receive still comprises much of the budget of athletic departments. The football...
Name, Image, and Likeness: How the NIL Has Rapidly Encroached Upon High School Sports
Nov. 22, 2023—In this new post by Matthew Lybeck ('25), read about how recent changes to the National Collegiate Athletic Association's name, image, and likeliness profitability rules have allowed opportunities to quickly spread from college athletics to high school athletics in many states, and the impact new rules and laws may have on high school athletics.
Through the Looking Glass with Alice: The Current Application and Future of Title IX in Athletics
Jun. 28, 2023—Josephine (Jo) R. Potuto | 25 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 373 (2023). This Article is a snapshot of the past pervasive discriminatory treatment of women in athletics and where women athletes and women’s athletics currently stand. It discusses some of the new challenges for Title IX enforcement—female transgender athletes and treatment of name,...