Sports & Entertainment

Sports:

NCAA

• Fired University of Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore "barged his way" into the apartment of a woman with whom he had been having an affair and threatened to kill himself after she reported the relationship to the school and he lost his job, prosecutors said Friday. Fired Michigan football coach charged with home invasion and stalking - NPR

NFL

• The NFL had to make some tough decisions regarding Houston Texans minority owner Javier Loya. The League banned him and also imposed a $500,000 fine after finding he violated the league’s personal conduct policy. The decision comes two years after prosecutors accused Loya of rape and sexual assault in Kentucky. NFL Bans Houston Texans Owner, Dishes Out $500,000 Fine Following Rape & Sexual Abuse Claims - Total Pro Sports
• Minnesota defensive coordinator Brian Flores' lawsuit against the NFL and several of its teams can proceed in open court after a federal appeals court ruled Aug. 14 that the league's arbitration provision is unenforceable. NFL loses another round in Brian Flores' suit alleging racial discrimination - USA Today

MLB

• Roughly a month after the Los Angeles Dodgers finished a scintillating seven-game World Series triumph over the Toronto Blue Jays, the Major League Baseball Players' Association gathered in Arizona this week to discuss the future of the game and look ahead to a possible lockout next December.
  MLB players union gathers to prepare for potentially contentious labor negotiations in 2026 - AP

WNBA

• A WNBA player and the Las Vegas Aces struck a deal to resolve Hamby's suit alleging the team traded her because she became pregnant, according to a filing in federal court Thursday. WNBA Player Ends Suit Alleging Pregnancy Prompted Trade - Law360

Entertainment:

FILM & TELEVISION

• HBO Max subscribers slapped Netflix with one of the first proposed class actions seeking to halt the streaming behemoth's $82.7 billion plan to buy Warner Bros.' studio and streaming business, calling the deal "one of the more audacious horizontal mergers in recent memory." Netflix hit with antitrust suit over plan to acquire Warner Bros. | Courthouse News Service
• Walt Disney Co. is licensing iconic characters including Mickey Mouse and Cinderella to OpenAI for use on its artificial intelligence video platform and has agreed to take a $1 billion stake in the startup. Walt Disney to invest $1 billion in OpenAI, license characters for Sora
• Film and television director Carl Erik Rinsch was convicted on charges he defrauded Netflix out of $11 million secured to make a sci-fi television show he never delivered, according to the SDNY USAO. Director found guilty of scamming Netflix out of $11 million | The Verge
• Walt Disney Co. won’t face a new trial after it escaped claims that its 2016 hit animated movie Moana infringed the copyright of a writer’s script, a CA federal judge ruled. Disney Defeats Writer’s Bid for a ‘Moana’ Copyright Trial Redo
• Netflix fired a production executive for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine out of retaliation for her complaints that the company mocked the religious beliefs of the unvaccinated and pushed a sexually charged company culture, according to a bias suit the former employee filed in CA state court. Exec Says Netflix Used Vax Status As Cover For Biased Firing - Law360

MUSIC

• U.S. lawmakers are revisiting an effort to get FM and AM radio broadcasters to pay artists when playing their music, with key members of a Senate subcommittee speaking at a hearing in favor of a measure that also garnered enthusiastic support from Kiss singer Gene Simmons. Gene Simmons testifies on American Music Fairness Act to fix radio royalties for musicians loop hole
• A Manhattan federal judge said that she would allow Ed Sheeran to challenge the validity of a 2020 copyright on elements of the Marvin Gaye track "Let's Get It On" before the copyright holder is permitted to amend its suit alleging Sheeran's hit song "Thinking Out Loud" infringes it. Ed Sheeran Granted Permission to Challenge Copyright on Marvin Gaye's 'Let's Get It On' - IIPLA

LAWSUITS OF THE RICH & FAMOUS

• Sean "Diddy" Combs' $50 million defamation suit accusing a grand jury witness, a lawyer and Nexstar Media Inc. of spreading falsities is likely to survive the defendants' motion to dismiss, at least in part, a Manhattan federal judge said. Combs' Defamation Suit Unlikely To Be Tossed, Judge Says - Law360