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Alicia Jessop recalled shadowing a sports editor at a local newspaper in Colorado, where she grew up, but the experience dashed her dreams of being a sports reporter. The editor called out the negative aspects of the field, including what she would face as a woman. It changed her course and pointed her to law school.

With previous setbacks in both O’Bannon v. NCAA and NCAA v. Alston, the NCAA and the Power Five conferences made a decision to shy away from their traditional aggressive stance when it came to litigating the latest legal challenge attacking their business model in House v. NCAA (No. 4:20-cv-03919, (N.D. Ca. 06/15/2020)). And so in May, the leaders in the Power Five (American Athletic Conference, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12, and Southeastern Conference) ended up agreeing to settle the case. The multibillion-dollar settlement, if approved by Senior District Judge Claudia Wilken — the same federal judge associated with both the Alston and O’Bannon cases — obliges the NCAA to pay out approximately $2.8 billion to former student-athletes who had been prohibited from monetizing their name, image, and likeness prior to July 1, 2021.

Case name: Penders v. Saint Edwards University Inc., No. 1:22-CV-178 (W.D. Tex. 03/18/24).

Case name: Longerbeam v. Shepherd University, et al., No. 22-609 (W. Va. 04/11/24).

During the course of a winter break, I had the opportunity to read U.S. Army General (Ret.) Stanley McChrystal's marvelous text, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World. In this highly insightful and broadly applicable book for seemingly any industry or genre, General McChrystal outlines the enormous additional value that arises when groups within an organization serve one another while pursuing the overarching mission for the company as a whole.

LAS VEGAS — More than a dozen current and former student-athletes and coaches recently embarked on a coast-to-coast bus tour to raise awareness and garner more support for a cause near and dear to their hearts. At each stop of the “Take Back Title IX” tour, they held rallies, spreading their message that women's athletics opportunities “are being stripped away.”

A University of Vermont swim team member filed a report with the university claiming she had recently been sexually assaulted multiple times by a member of the men's basketball team, with whom she was previously in a relationship. Two days later, an investigator told her she could (1) file a police report, (2) request a formal investigation, or (3) participate in an informal resolution. She allegedly told the student the informal resolution would “take less time.”

LAS VEGAS — Most states allow some form of online gambling — and even in those that prohibit it, students can probably find workarounds. So it's a safe bet that it's happening among your campus community. Although more male student-athletes gamble, female student-athletes participate, too. Clint Speegle, Esq., Partner with Lightfoot, Franklin & White, identified some common reasons student- athletes say they gamble: boredom, competitiveness, “my non-student-athlete friends do it, so why can’t I,” and “I didn’t think the rules applied to me as long as I didn’t bet on my own team.”

It was just a matter of time before a name, image, and likeness arrangement ended up in litigation, and now the first of these lawsuits is upon us. Specifically, Jaden Rashada, a highly sought after quarterback coming out of high school, filed a lawsuit against the University of Florida, the head football coach, a former football staff member who ran the team's NIL program, and a major Florida athletics booster, along with his company, over an NIL deal that went bad.

Case name: Thomas v. Regents of the University of California, et al., No. A164550 (Cal. Ct. App. 11/29/23).