Every year, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill hosts the College Sport Research Institute (CSRI) Conference. Its stated mission is to “Provide students, scholars, and college-sport practitioners a public forum to discuss relevant and timely intercollegiate-athletics issues.” For information regarding panel discussions and attendees from the 2011 CSRI Conference, click here. The 2012 CSRI Conference will […]
Yesterday, I spoke to the Union Internationale des Avocats’ (UIA – International Association of Lawyers) 55th Congress on the current issues in Sports Law, with a specific focus on what is going on in the world of athlete agent regulation and discipline. More than 1,200 lawyers from more than 70 countries around the world have attended […]
This could be the most bizarre On To The Next One stories we have covered to date. New York Yankees pitcher Ivan Nova made his first Major League start in August 2010. Perhaps he has the power to confuse batters with his pitches. According to a variety of reports that I have read as of late, Nova […]
Crowd Seats, the first Daily Deals site for Sports Tickets, has launched its first deal in New York City. The launch represents the second market for the sports-centered daily deals site. To kickoff the NYC Market, Crowd Seats is offering discounted tickets to the Rutgers vs Army Football Game at Yankee Stadium. Crowd Seats initially […]
Yesterday, a group of individuals who are tied to college sports in a variety of ways converged in Washington D.C. to participate in a roundtable discussion titled, Hypocrisy or Hype? The Impacts of Back-Room Deals, Payoffs, and Scandals in American Collegiate Student Athletics. The list of participants may be found here. U.S. Representative Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill) put together […]
Baseball agent Dan Lozano of Icon Sports Group has recently found himself on the right side of our On To The Next One segment. In the beginning of 2011, New York Yankees right fielder and first baseman Nick Swisher left Ohio based agent, Joe Bick of Pro Star Management, Inc for Danny Lozano. Then, it was reported that young stud Yonder Alonso of the Cincinnati Reds […]
You probably have never heard of the Student Basketball Forum, but if author/speaker/businessman Marc Isenberg and Nolan Smith of the Portland Trail Blazers (and former Duke Blue Devil) have their way, the “Forum” will gather the strength to empower the next generation of great college and pro basketball players and great leaders. The gentlemen have made their presence […]
Over the weekend, The Miami Herald ran an op-ed that I wrote titled, NCAA’s $2,000 boost to scholarship-athletes: too little, but a start. While I am in favor of the recent decision by the NCAA, which will allow conferences to permit their member schools to offer an additional $2,000 in grants, per year, to its […]
What: Sports Law Conference on the BCS and Big-Time College Football When: November 17-18, 2011 Where: Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California Panels: Opening Session – Antitrust (9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., Thursday November 17) Mark Shurtleff, Attorney General of Utah, has initiated the antitrust litigation against the BCS Gordon Schnell, Attorney with Constantine Cannon […]
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