The Iron Bowl is the name given to the annual Alabama–Auburn football rivalry: a key late-season matchup between the Auburn University Tigers and University of Alabama Crimson Tide, both charter members of the Southeastern...more
The academic calendar has turned to October as athletic conferences and their member institutions attempt to deal with athletes’ growing expectations about name, image and likeness (NIL) opportunities. The tsunami created by...more
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 we are now in the current, but still...more
Throughout the history of college sports, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has remained the national governing and rulemaking body for collegiate athletics, with a commitment to the principle of amateurism....more
The 2021 college football season is upon us and, for the first time, college athletes in all sports can exercise their publicity rights — commonly referred to as “name, image and likeness” (NIL) — without sacrificing their...more