April 22, 2019
Prosecutors urged the New York federal judge overseeing a trial set to get underway Tuesday over alleged corruption in college basketball to remind the newly empaneled jury that the case is not supposed to be a "referendum" on NCAA rules.
April 19, 2019
Two top men's college basketball coaches, University of Arizona's Sean Miller and Louisiana State University's Will Wade, cannot be called to testify by two hoops consultants accused of paying bribes to other coaches, a Manhattan federal judge said Friday.
January 22, 2019
Former University of Arizona basketball coach Emanuel Richardson pled guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery before a Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday, choking up as he described how he took $20,000 from undercover federal agents to refer college ballers their way for business.
January 02, 2019
A former assistant men's basketball coach for the University of Southern California, a top-ranked NCAA school, on Wednesday admitted to taking bribes from financial advisers in exchange for pushing college players to retain their services.
July 11, 2018
From questions over athletes' publicity rights as legalized daily fantasy sports and sports betting spread in the U.S. to a long-running multidistrict case over head injuries in the National Hockey League, 2018 is shaping out to be another big year for sports litigation. Here, Law360 takes a look at six cases sports attorneys across the industry are going to want to keep an eye on heading into the second half of this year.
January 01, 2018
The coming year will see a slew of corruption trials in New York, continued criminal cases against college coaches and apparel company representatives, and the U.S. Department of Justice's continued pursuit of big cases overseas.
December 21, 2017
With the NFL's suspension battle with Ezekiel Elliott, a lively FIFA corruption trial and a showdown over the fate of sports gambling at the U.S. Supreme Court, this past year in sports law provided plenty of drama and intrigue off the field. Here, Law360 looks back at some of the major cases that grabbed the headlines in 2017.