SportsWise: A Podcast About Sports and the Law

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 On this episode, I'm joined by the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, Bruce Meyer, for an inside look at the labor battle between the players and the owners. With the collective bargaining agreement expiring in December, owners are pushing for a salary cap, players are pushing back, and another lockout is looming. We'll discuss the competing economic proposals, competitive balance, player solidarity, and whether a lockout could jeopardize the 2027 season.

Thank you for listening! For the latest in sports law news and analysis, you can follow Gabe Feldman on twitter @sportslawguy .  

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 On this episode, I'm rejoined by Jason Stahl, founder of the College Football Players Association, an organization that has emerged to attempt to represent college football players, provides advocacy and legal support to college football players, and is building team-based chapters that could eventually become conference-wide unions. We discuss the College Football Players Association's first chapter at Stanford, how they plan to move from a fraternal players association to collective bargaining, and whether a union would actually help college football players. 

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On this episode, I'm joined by Brandon Copeland, 10-year NFL veteran and co-founder of Athletes.org, an organization that has emerged to represent college athletes, provide them with legal and other professional support, and work to give them a voice in shaping the rules of college sports. We discuss the latest eligibility lawsuits, whether former professional athletes should be allowed to return to college sports, and why Cope believes collective bargaining is inevitable. 

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On this episode, I'm joined by United States Senator Eric Schmitt, one of the co-authors of the Protect College Sports Act. We discuss the Act, what it does, why it does it, and where it goes from here. We talk about the proposed limits on athlete compensation, restrictions on conference expansion, collective bargaining, coaching salaries, agent regulation, pooled media rights, and when he expects a final vote on the legislation. 

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On this episode, I'm joined by the Sun Belt Conference Commissioner Keith Gill to discuss potential expansion of the college football playoff, whether conferences may need to take a larger governance role, the extraordinary legal battle between LSU and the SEC, the Protect College Sports Act, athlete employment and collective bargaining, and whether the NCAA basketball tournaments should continue to expand.

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On this episode, I'm re-joined by the lead outside lawyer for the NCAA, Rakesh Kilaru. Rakesh takes us inside the wave of eligibility litigation sweeping college sports, including challenges to the NCAA's new five-year rule and lawsuits seeking to allow former pro athletes to return to college competition. We discuss why these cases keep coming, how the NCAA is faring in court, and whether litigation, legislation, or the schools themselves can finally bring order to the chaos. 

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 On this episode, I'm joined by Brian Murphy, the CEO of Athletes First, the agency that has negotiated many of the biggest contracts in NFL history, including landmark deals for Dak Prescott, Micah Parsons, Deshaun Watson, and many, many more. Murph gives us an inside look at how those deals get done, the holy grail of fully guaranteed contracts, the reason the NFL can't find 32 great quarterbacks, and much, much more. 

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On this episode, I'm joined again by Cody Campbell to talk about the battle for college sports legislation in Congress, the Brendan Sorsby saga, and Cody's increasingly public fight with the SEC and Big Ten over the future of college athletics, and much, much more.

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On this episode, we are back to talking about college sports. We have some movement in Congress, more lawsuits in the courts, but the multi-billion dollar question that is in the center of it all is whether college sports will try to package all of their football media rights. I'm joined by sports media legend Chris Bevilacqua to talk about whether schools should pool their FBS football rights, how they can do it, why they should do it, and much, much more. 

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 On this episode, I’m joined by Rutgers Athletic Director Kelli Zinn to talk about leading a Big Ten athletic department through the most chaotic era college sports has ever seen. We talk NIL, revenue sharing, the House settlement, the future of Olympic sports, why Rutgers is betting big on revenue generation, and how to win in college sports when the rules keep changing. 

Thank you for listening! For the latest in sports law news and analysis, you can follow Gabe Feldman on twitter @sportslawguy .