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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 it to cover community college athletes. “The amateurism ideals have been weakening over time, not ...

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 director at the University of Maryland. “This is a change, but we’re moving in the direction th...