Name, Image, and Likeness
- The Abandonment of International College Athletes by NIL Policy - North Carolina Law ReviewA new era in college sports dawned on July 1, 2021. College sports generate billions of dollars in revenue, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association announced that college athletes were (subject to various limitations and restrictions) entitled to earn money based upon name, image, and likeness (NIL) without losing eligibility to compete. This Article details the tax and employment prohibition issues facing foreign athletes, including the way in which current F visa rules may be deftly sidestepped by generating NIL income characterized by the Internal Revenue Service as passive rather than active.
- College athletes are getting closer to becoming employees. What would happen next? - The Athletic*Requires paid subscription.
- College Sports Stares Down Its Doomsday Scenario - WSJ*Requires paid subscription.
Amid a barrage of legal attacks, even NCAA leaders have dropped a century-old stand against pay-for-play—now they’re just fighting over whether the athletes are employees. - EA Sports Video Game NIL Deals Could Hurt NCAA In Court - Sportico*Requires paid subscription.
- NCAA v. Alston Summary - Harvard Law ReviewThe Alston decision, combined with background principles of antitrust law that the Court did not consider, lays the groundwork for a successful future challenge to the NCAA’s restrictions on compensation unrelated to education.
- Researching Name, Imaging, and Licensing Law - Michigan Bar JournalBrief overview of the changing NIL landscape and how to effectively research NIL issues.
- The legal implications of private equity in collegiate sports*Requires paid subscription
The Myth of the Amateur by Call Number: ELECTRONIC BOOKPublication Date: 2021In this in-depth look at the heated debates over paying college athletes, Ronald A. Smith starts at the beginning: the first intercollegiate athletics competition--a crew regatta between Harvard and Yale--in 1852, when both teams received an all-expenses-paid vacation from a railroad magnate. This striking opening sets Smith on the path of a story filled with paradoxes and hypocrisies that plays out on the field, in meeting rooms, and in courtrooms--and that ultimately reveals that any insistence on amateurism is invalid, because these athletes have always been paid, one way or another.
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes by Call Number: ELECTRONIC BOOKISBN: 9781643363790Publication Date: 2023The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes provides a comprehensive historical, sociological, legal, financial, and managerial argument for the reclassification of profit-athletes as employees.
Same Players, Different Game by Call Number: ELECTRONIC BOOKPublication Date: 2020In this thought-provoking new book, John C. Barnes examines the contemporary state of commercial college athletics as a guide for current and potential administrators, coaches, regents, and others involved in collegiate athletic operations and decision-making. Each chapter provides an overview of an industry shaped by such current realities as Title IX requirements, commercial investments, student testing, and television contracts.
Whither College Sports by Call Number: ELECTRONIC BOOKPublication Date: 2021Intercollegiate athletics is under assault from all sides. Its economic model is yielding increasing and unsustainable deficits and widening inequality. Substantial change, either toward reasserting the intended primacy of education for intercollegiate athletes or a further surrender to commercialism, is coming. This book lays out the starkly different paths that college sports reform can follow and what the ramifications will be on the athletes and on the institutions in which they are enrolled.
Labor Relations
- 'Entertaining' a New College Athlete Unionization Structure - Journal of Legal Aspects of SportBetween athletes still feeling short-changed despite name, image, and likeness (NIL) compensation and coaches and administrators feeling generally unhappy with the unregulated, “wild west” landscape of NIL, college sports is faced with two competing forces: the legal recognition of college athletes as employees and the creation of a formally recognized college athlete labor union.
- Breaking the Broadcast Huddle: How College Football Conferences’ Bundling of Broadcast Rights Could Harm Student Athletes - Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment LawWill the consolidation of football conferences hurt the bargaining power of college athletes?
- College Athlete Unionization Push Arrives As Schools Face Budget Clouds - Sportico*Requires paid subscription.
College presidents will have major decisions to make with college athletes as employees: Requires paid subscription. - College athlete unions: Would they be effective? - Michigan NewsThe National Labor Relations Board recently ruled that men’s basketball players at Dartmouth College are school employees and ordered a union vote—a first for college sports. Sports economist Richard Paulsen, assistant professor of sport management at the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology, discusses how unions might look for college athletes.
- House Republicans Warn Against College Athlete Unions - Inside Higher EDIn a hearing, GOP representatives argued that labor unions would disrupt college sports and lead to program cuts. Democrats said student-athletes deserve a seat at the bargaining table.
- Recent Developments in Sports-Related Disputes 2024 - ABAAn overview of several landmark court decisions in 2023, covering varying areas of sports law.
- Ten Key Issues For Dartmouth Men's Basketball Moving Forward - Sportico*Requires paid subscription.
After Dartmouth's men's basketball team voted to unionize on Tuesday, the future of the union has begun to come into focus: Requires paid subscription. - UChicago event examines unionization in college athletics, paying student athletes - University of Chicago NewsAports, race, and labor—and the ways they intersect—were central topics at a recent Harris School of Public Policy panel discussion exploring the evolving landscape of college athletics.
- Why a College Athlete Union Seems Inevitable, and How it Could Work - Global Sport MattersAs college athletes score wins in court and the business of NCAA football grows, labor experts believe a college athlete union could come soon, and are directing their energy toward making that union as effective as possible.
- Why is Michigan hiring a GM for NIL? ‘Everyone’s feeling like they’re behind’ - The Athletic*Requires paid subscription.
Having an on-campus general manager for NIL has become increasingly common as schools try to keep tabs on NIL opportunities for hundreds of athletes in a fiercely competitive market: Requires paid subscription.