As sports has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry, there has been an explosion in the number of lawyers who specialize in sports law. There has been an understandably significant increase in the number of persons desiring to represent professional athletes. This increase can be explained by ...

The Need for Reform in Collegiate Sports The current institutional structure of intercollegiate athletics is attempting to maximize educational quality and athletic excellence simultaneously. Each of which will inevitably impinge on one another. Universities claim that their athletes are a...

When investigations find that college athletes are given special treatment as far as grades are concerned, and that they even have courses made up for them that they don't have to attend, it does not look good for the future of any college athlete who is graduating. However, there may be hope f...

A few minutes before airtime Thursday in CBS' NCAA studio on West 57th Street, analyst Clark Kellogg checked the schedule. 'Nothing really surprising should happen today,' he said. 'It'll hold true.'" But after a couple of upsets, CBS programmers quickly switched regional telecasts to bigger ...

Equal Funding Today, universities throughout the country have to face the problem of equality in athletics. Colleges are being forced to re-evaluate the funds that are being distributed to each program. Men and women's athletic programs are finally being required to be given the same amou...

Imagine working for a huge cooperation and bringing in millions of dollars for them but not receiving a penny for your work. This in many ways is what college athletes go through. This unfair rule the NCAA puts on the athletes that "work" for them and their school have led me to believe they shoul...