🏈 Important ruling for NFL agencies: NC Court of Appeals affirms that biz disputes between agencies must follow private arbitration clauses, not NFLPA procedures. NFLPA regs govern individual Contract Advisors, not business entities.

Further evidence of the huge importance of December’s Patterson eligibility hearing: Charlie Baker directly cited it as “[e]ven more concerning” in his recent letter to Congress, per @RossDellenger

And if the top college football programs spin off into a new league, the billion-dollar question will be: who will control it and its revenue?

As Mit points out, here's the first case to squarely attack the NCAA hardship waiver rule. Other cases challenging the Four/Five Year eligibility rules have taken issue with the NCAA's waiver process, like Fourqurean and Coley. The difficulty with antitrust claims based on the

Another eligibility win for a college athlete in a state court, which have generally been more favorable venues for athletes compared to the federal courts. Although, a North Carolina state court denied an eligibility rule injunction sought by a football player in September,

A new eligibility lawsuit has been filed by Ally Stedman, who seeks a fifth year to play basketball for Utah Valley after playing at Pepperdine (21, 22), Miami (23), and UCF (24).

The CSC just issued new guidance on NIL deals, and it will be interesting to see whether these disclosure rules end up in court: athletes must report all deals over $600 within 5 days or lose eligibility. The NCAA has had some notable success shielding other eligibility rules

After 2½ hours at Spokane County Courthouse, Judge Marla Polin rules in favor of Tyon Grant-Foster, granting a preliminary injunction that will allow him to compete for #Gonzaga this season.

NEWS: Vanderbilt QB Diego Pavia—who will declare for the NFL Draft after this season—is amending his JUCO eligibility lawsuit to be a proposed class action, his lawyer tells @FOS. The goal: to strike down the NCAA’s JUCO eligibility rule for good. https://t.co/g5GIM3V6Vr

The "No Draft" and "No Agent" rules were previously upheld in Banks v. NCAA. But that was in 1990. Unclear whether a court today would agree. The NCAA argued in 1990 that these rules "prevent the professionalization of college sports to the extent educational objectives would be

A lawsuit challenging this 4-seasons-in-5-years limit was filed earlier this month, so it sounds like that won’t be mooted anytime soon. Manu v. NCAA.

The NCAA has granted college eligibility to former G League players, and you can expect this fact to be raised in antitrust lawsuits over the NCAA's eligibility rules. It bears on some of the arguments raised in cases like Pavia v. NCAA as to why athletes should/shouldn't be

Summary of the Senate Democrat news conference: Either of the two introduced college sports bills - the Republican-authored SCORE Act & the Democrat-authored SAFE Act - is unlikely, in its current form, to pass Congress by the mid-term elections next November.

U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken has ordered that a hearing be held Nov. 6 on "on objections to the continuation of the" going-forward, injunctive aspects of the NCAA-House settlement, which also is on appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals.

An antitrust lawsuit seeking this relief was filed 5 days ago, so we’ll get some indication on how the courts feel about this sooner than later (Manu v NCAA).

Really interesting comments from AAC Commish Tony Pernetti in this @TheFieldOf68 interview, raising the concept of buyouts or penalties for schools acquiring football player transfers. League rules restricting player movement might raise antitrust challenges a la the NFL's