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Topic: Intercollegiate Athletics

Radical Reform of Intercollegiate Athletics: Antitrust and Public Policy Implications

Stephen F. Ross | Symposium

Universities operating major intercollegiate athletic programs are heading for, if not already in, a crisis. Corruption continues to affect major football and basketball programs, exacerbated by a failure of imagination and will in identifying and deterring corruption, and by a lack of consensus on what constitutes “corruption” when football and men’s basketball stars generate millions of dollars but cannot enjoy a lifestyle commensurate with many peer students. Current levels of spending are nonsustainable at many schools. Even where intercollegiate athletic programs are sustained primarily by football and basketball revenues, otherwise visionary and questioning college presidents have yet to publicly question [...]

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The Case for Reviving the Four-Year Deal

Ray Yasser | Symposium

Even the most avid sports fan may well not realize that the modern athletic scholarship is no longer a ‘four-year deal.” A quiet evolution has occurred and the traditional four-year deal has been consigned to the dust bin in the athletic director’s office. The modern athletic scholarship is now a one-year deal, renewable at the sole discretion of the university. The hypothesis of this Essay is that a viable antitrust cause of action exists on behalf of a scholarship recipient whose scholarship is not renewed, either because he or she has disappointed the coach or is no longer able to [...]

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The Illusion of Amateurism: A Climate of Tortious Interference in the World of Amateur Sports

Craig D. Alfred | Comment
When a player-agent pays an NCAA-eligible player in violation of NCAA regulations, the agent usually suffers no consequences. Instead, players and the universities they attend are sanctioned, often harshly. Attempts to find a solution to this problem–NCAA regulations, regulations of professional players associations, and state and federal legislation–have thus far been unsuccessful. There is a potential remedy, however: the tortious interference with contractual relations claim. When a gifted student-athlete decides to attend and play a sport at an NCAA-member university, the student-athlete typically receives a scholarship offer from the school and signs a National Letter of Intent. This Comment establishes [...]
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