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Graduate student attacker Lauren Gilbert has long been one of Northwestern lacrosse’s greatest offensive assets. The Oregon native has been lethal on attack for the Wildcats, receiving All-Big Ten honors in 2021 and ranking ninth in the country in goals scored in 2021. She was also nominated for the 2021 Tewaaraton Award, an annual honor...

Having covered the background history of the evolution of college athletes’ name, image and likeness (NIL) rights in our prior bulletins, our next series of bulletins will address where...

Potential new advertising opportunities concerning Name, Image and Likeness NIL rights of student athletes. US Supreme Court issued an opinion in National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston upholding lower court’s injunction against rules restricting education-related expenses

. Advocates for college athlete compensation in California are on a hot streak. First the state passed a first-in-the-nation law allowing players to sign paid endorsement deals, and 20 states followed its example. Now, with both a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision and a National Collegiate Athletic Association rule change challenging the idea that students shouldn’t make money from athletics, legislators are pushing to move up the effective date of the California law to this fall and expand ...

There was a rush for the NCAA to implement some baseline guidance regarding athletes profiting off their name, image and likeness (NIL). Several states have laws going into effect Thursday, and the NCAA’s Division I Council sought to create a stopgap ruling until federal legislation or new NCAA rules could be implemented. “This is a seismic shift in the landscape, just simply because this was something that was not made available to student-athletes before,” said Damon Evans, the athletic...

In a lot of ways, May 6 didn’t bring much out of the ordinary for Eli Drinkwitz. The second-year Missouri football coach is used to entering someone else’s domain, flashing his charm, selling his vision for the Tiger football program. But this time, the stakes were a bit higher. Instead of meeting the family of a high school football prospect and selling them on playing for Missouri, Drinkwitz found himself in Jefferson City, shaking hands with members of the state legislature in th...

Georgia became the most recent state to sign its respective NIL bill into law on Thursday, joining Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and New Mexico as states that will see these changes come into effect on July 1.

States Move Forward on Compensation for Student Athletes Colleges make billions from the feats of student athletes. Recent bills could open the door for athletes to receive compensation beyond their scholarships. Carl Smith, Senior Staff Writer   |   April 21, 2021   |  Analysis NCAA members raised $18.9 billion in 2019. Compare that with the National Basketball Association (NBA), which generated $8.5 billion in the 2019-2020 season. The NC...

On March 31, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in NCAA v. Alston, the closely-watched case that will determine whether certain NCAA rules, limiting compensation provided by colleges and universities to student-athletes, violate the antitrust laws.  While important, the Court’s decision in Alston, expected by the end of June, is only part of what college and university counsel need to be aware of when considering possible benefits for student-athletes on their campuses. Starting on July...

SALEM — New legislation that landed in late March in the Oregon Senate could allow some college student-athletes to be paid. Senate Bill 5, introduced March 24 by Senate President Peter Courtney of Salem and Sen. James Manning Jr., a Eugene Democrat whose district includes the University of Oregon, allows student-athletes to “earn compensation for use of their name, image or likeness.” That includes royalty payments for college merchandise sold with the athlete’s name or ima...