College Athletes Can Form A Union: What’s Next?

The regional National Labor Relations Board in Chicago issued a stunning decision Wednesday, granting employee status and unionization rights to college...

Don’t Expect College Athletes to Unionize Any Time Soon

Football players at Northwestern University have officially filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board asking to be treated as...

Kristi Dosh on Northwestern Football Players’ Efforts to Unionize

Curious whether Northwestern student athletes seeking to form a union will be successful? I researched the issue of college athletes unionizing...

Opportunities for Women to Coach at Collegiate Level Dwindling

A fascinating new study has come out of University of Minnesota’s Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport...

College Football Super-Division, Penn State and O’Bannon

I wanted to provide some brief thoughts on several hot topics in college sports today, so here we go: College Football...

Division 1 Athletic Directors to Stand United Against Pay-for-Play

A source within college athletics sent BusinessofCollegeSports.com a draft of a press release expected to be released today which contains a...

Can Miami’s Dyron Dye Sue the NCAA for Extortion?

Guest author: Benjamin Haynes, Esq. University of Miami’s football player Dyron Dye was disciplined back in 2011 by the NCAA when...

The Impact Of A $3.1 Million Verdict Against Riddell On Future Football Concussion Litigation

Jurors in a small southern town in Colorado found that Riddell Helmets contributorily negligent in the head injuries a former Trinidad...

Preparing for a post-O’Bannon world

Stewart Mandel has a piece out today on SI.com describing the range of urgency athletics administrators are feeling regarding the O’Bannon v....

Future of the NCAA (Part III)

(In Part I we looked at Enforcement, and in Part II the BCS schools separating from the NCAA and conference realignment....