Carl Nassib becomes first active NFL player to come out as gay

Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib has become the NFL's first active openly gay player.

Fraud, Race Norming & Delays - How The NFL’s Concussion Litigation Fund Is Faring Five Years On

American Football Helmet and Ball On A Field

Published Friday, 04 June 2021.

National Football League Taps Genius Sports Group As Exclusive Distributor of Official League Data

NEW YORK, NY and LONDON, UK, April 1, 2021 – The National Football League (NFL) and Genius Sports Group (“GSG” or “Genius”), a global leader in digital sports content, technology and integrity services, today announced a new multi-year strategic partnership to power the future of NFL fan experiences using personalized, data-driven technology. Going forward, Genius will be the NFL’s exclusive distributor of real- time official play-by-play statistics, proprietary Next Gen Stats (NGS) data, and the League’s official sports betting data feed to media companies and sports betting operators globally, including the U.S., where legal. In addition, Genius and the NFL will develop a jointly governed technology center/hub dedicated to driving the future of NFL betting through innovation of NFL’s data feeds, data products, and fan engagement offerings.

How sports leagues & federations around the world are sanctioning players breaking Covid-19 rules

Published Thursday, 11 March 2021.

The College Athletes Bill Of Rights: The (Potential) Future Of U.S. Collegiate Sports Regulation

Published Tuesday, 02 February 2021.

Texans WR Will Fuller, CB Bradley Roby announce six-game suspensions for violating NFL PED policy

US Supreme Court rejects NFL appeal against antitrust lawsuit

The US Supreme Court has refused an NFL and AT&T Inc’s DirecTV appeal which called for the court to overrule a lower court decision to revive a lawsuit that accuses them of overcharging for a satellite television package, meaning the lawsuit can move forward.

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2019/20 T0TAL CAF Champions League Semi-final between Zamalek SC and Raja CA will be played on November 1st, 2020

UAE Pro League holds Child Safeguarding workshop

Abu Dhabi: The UAE Pro League organised its first workshop for the newly appointed Club Safeguarding Officers (CSO) as part of the second phase of its child safeguarding initiative to ensure children continue to play football in a safe environment.

How has California’s “Fair Pay to Play” Act changed college sport, if at all?

Published Tuesday, 21 July 2020.

Return to play for US college sports - legal risks, liability waivers and best practices

Published Thursday, 25 June 2020.

Hedging your bets: how to regulate Brazil’s multi-billion-dollar sports betting market

Published Friday, 28 February 2020.

As NFL diversity suffers has the Rooney Rule run its course?

Published Thursday, 23 January 2020.

Best practice for sports organisations when managing betting compliance risks (the Rob Howley case)

Published Friday, 25 October 2019.

How game theory can help us design more effective whistleblowing polices for sports (Part 2)

Published Wednesday, 02 October 2019.

What can football clubs do when medical treatment given to a player by a third party goes wrong?

Published Monday, 30 September 2019.

Legislating for game integrity as U.S. states legalize sports betting

Published Friday, 06 September 2019.

Betting, beer and CBD – how U.S. leagues & teams are approaching new non-traditional categories for sports sponsorships

Published Monday, 02 September 2019.

An update on Antonio Brown’s helmet dispute with the NFL

Published Friday, 23 August 2019.

State aid in Spanish football - EU General Court overrules European Commission on Barcelona and Real Madrid decisions

Published Monday, 19 August 2019.

Whytes Bikes v Rich Energy - lessons from the Haas F1 Team sponsor’s copyright dispute

Published Friday, 09 August 2019.

Anti-doping: CAS accepts a new method to detect prohibited substances

Published Thursday, 01 August 2019.

French sports fans have image rights too: balancing personal privacy against the public’s right to be informed

Published Wednesday, 31 July 2019.

Registering an EU trade mark in bad faith: lessons from the “NEYMAR” decision

Published Friday, 19 July 2019.

The Moral And Legal Obligations On Sports Employers To Support Victims Of Domestic Abuse

Published Friday, 11 June 2021.

NFL to stop racial bias when settling concussion lawsuits

The NFL has said that it will stop using a race-based formula which assumes black players have a lower cognitive function than their white counterparts, when settling concussion lawsuits.