SportsWise: A Podcast About Sports and the Law

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Mike Florio, creator and longtime editor of Pro Football Talk, author, radio host, television commentator, co-host of the Daily NFL Talk Show on Peacock with Chris Sims, and contributor to NBC's Sunday night NFL Studio show, Football Night in America, joins to talk about the latest in the ongoing NFL Players Association saga, why he believes that Deshaun Watson to the Cleveland Browns was the worst transaction in the history of professional football and what the future battles between the NFL Players Association and NFL might look like.

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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 Irwin Raij, partner at Sidley and Co-Chair of their Entertainment, Sports, and Media Group, joins the pod to discuss what it means to be a sports business lawyer, issues around buying and selling pro sports teams,  trends in sports stadiums and real estate development, and the influx of private equity money in US pro sports and the complexities of bringing private equity money into US college sports. 

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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Congresswoman Lori Trahan, a former DI college volleyball player and a go-to voice in Congress on college sports issues (among many other issues) gives her perspective on the SCORE Act, the college sports bill that has progressed further than any other piece of college sports legislation. Rep. Trahan also gives insight into the debates in Congress around college sports and where things might be headed from here. 

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, we tackle the collision of immigration law and college sports. With 100s of millions of dollars now flowing to college athletes, are international athletes allowed to get a piece of the new revenue pie? To help me break it all down, I’m joined by Catherine Haight, founder of Haight Law Group and a veteran sports immigration lawyer. 

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, we tackle the pending and looming Title IX challenges to NIL payments to college athletes from collectives and challenges to the new payments that schools will be making directly to athletes. To help me break it all down, I'm joined by Arthur Bryant, the lawyer who is bringing many of these lawsuits, and it was represented female athletes in Title IX cases for over 30 years and counting. 

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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Dr. Jaime Gordon, CEO of the American Volleyball Coaches Association, joins the pod to discuss the future of Olympic sports and the impact—including schools dropping sports-that the new rules in college sports will have on Olympic sports on college campuses and beyond, and what can be done to protect these opportunities.  

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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 After five years of talking about the House case and the House settlement, I'm joined by none other than Grant House, the actual House in House.

Grant talks about his role and goal with the lawsuit, his views on the settlement, and much more. 

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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John Clune, partner at Hutchinson Black and Cook, joins the pod to discuss the Title IX lawsuits that many schools will likely face because they are (reportedly) planning to distribute up to 90% of the new payments under the House settlement to male athletes, primarily football and men's basketball players. We will also talk about the appeal of the House settlement that John recently filed on behalf of a number of female athletes, and what that could mean for the future of college sports.

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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Troy Dannen, Athletic Director at University of Nebraska, and the newest member of the College Football Playoff Committee, joins the pod to give an inside look at the changes we're about to see in big time college sports-- from schools directly compensating players, to new oversight of NIL deals, to the future of football governance and much, much more. 

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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Rakesh Kilaru, lead outside counsel for the NCAA in the House case, rejoins the podcast to talk about how the settlement will be operationalized, the possibility of an appeal of the settlement, why he believes that this settlement will lead to more legal stability for the NCAA, and much more.

We will also talk about the new wave of eligibility lawsuits facing the NCAA, and much, much more. Here we go.

 Welcome back to the podcast, Rakesh. Thank you so much for coming back on. Thanks, Gabe. It's great to be back. 

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