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- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by U.S. Soccer, leaving it to face an antitrust lawsuit that could open up the United States to official soccer matches involving foreign clubs. The justices without comment said they would not take up the soccer organization’s challenge to a decision last year that revived the case, which was brought by New York-based promoter Relevent Sports. US Supreme Court won't hear U.S. Soccer case over hosting foreign matches - Reuters
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- The College Basketball Players Association filed an unfair labor practice charge ...
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- A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned the West Virginia law banning transgender girls from playing on girls' sports teams, finding that it violates Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools. The ruling comes amid a wave of anti-trans legislation cropping up across the country, as well as efforts to fight back against it. The ban in West Virginia was originally signed into law by Gov. Jim Justice in 2021 and introduced as the "Save Women's Sports Act." It required that any official or unofficial school-sanctioned event ...
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- A Florida law signed Thursday will allocate revenues from legal gambling in the state to wildlife conservation. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed legislation that allocates 96 percent of state income from the Seminole Tribe Compact, the agreement with the state that allows the tribe to offer online sports betting and casino gambling, to improve water quality infrastructure and management. The law, Senate Bill 1638, appropriates a total of $200 million to land purchases and management for a protected wildlife corridor in the state and removal of invasive species. DeSantis signs ...
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- The NCAA and the Power 5 conferences have told a CA federal judge that the “highly varied and diverse ways” schools compensated athletes after the 2021 Alston Supreme Court decision make it implausible to certify the class suing for past compensation — saying plaintiffs have chosen to “simply ignore all of this complexity.” The proposed class, led by former Oklahoma State University football player Chuba Hubbard, is seeking certification for tens of thousands of former college athletes who claim they were denied hundreds of millions of dollars in ...
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- Major League Baseball announced Friday that it has opened an investigation following allegations involving Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter, who has been at the center of a potential theft and sports betting scandal this week. MLB opens investigation after allegations that Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter was involved in gambling scandal - NBC News
- Five golfers filed a class-action lawsuit this week against the city of Los Angeles, alleging that officials failed to rein in a bustling black market in tee times at municipal golf courses. Golfers sue city of L.A ...
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- Dartmouth College must bargain with its men's basketball team after the National Labor Relations Board certified the players' recent landmark vote to unionize with the Service Employees International Union on Thursday, but a legal challenge looms. The certification, which the board issues when no party objects to the process or result of an election, obligates the school to begin negotiating with the players union following their March 5 vote, the first to establish a union of college athletes. NLRB Certifies Dartmouth Men's Basketball Player Union - Law360
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- The Dartmouth men's basketball team voted to unionize Tuesday in an unprecedented step toward forming the first labor union for college athletes and another blow to the NCAA's deteriorating amateur business model. Dartmouth men's basketball team votes to unionize, though steps remain before forming labor union - The Associated Press
- Florida and the Seminole Tribe of Florida will be raking in hundreds of millions of dollars from online sports betting this decade, thanks to a compact between the tribe and Gov. Ron DeSantis that gave the tribe exclusive rights to run sports ...
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- A suburban Long Island school district challenging the New York State Board of Regents’ ban on using Indigenous names, mascots, and logos is pushing back against an anticipated bid to dismiss the suit. In a court filing Friday, the Massapequa Union Free School District, in response to a letter the state of New York filed in February requesting a conference on an anticipated motion to dismiss, said it has plausibly alleged the ban — known as Part 123 — is unlawfully vague and overbroad. School District Fights NY’s Bid To Ax Native Mascot Ban Suit – Law360
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“The wild west” is by far the most frequent characterization used to describe college sports since NCAA v Alston, 141 S. Ct. 2141, paved the way for college athletes to be compensated for use of their Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL). With a new sheriff in town, NCAA Director Charlie Baker, the NCAA began 2024 with its highly anticipated enforcement efforts and issued its first sanctions for a violation of the NCAA NIL Interim Policy. However, the enforcement era appears to be short-lived. On January 31, 2024, the attorneys general for Tennessee and Virginia filed a ...
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- The first person charged for violating a 2020 law that forbids conspiracies to taint international sports events through performance-enhancing drugs received a three-month prison sentence. Federal prosecutors used the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act to charge Eric Lira, a TX-based therapist, with supplying human-growth hormone and other performance enhancers to a pair of Nigerian athletes who were regulars on NCAA, Olympic and world championship podiums. First-ever Anti-Doping Act conviction nets Texas therapist 3 month prison sentence - Fox News
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