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College Basketball Eligibility

Oct 15, 2026 Martin Konstantinov

Roddy Gayle, Jr. is a twenty-three year old basketball player who has spent the last four academic years playing at Ohio State and Michigan, making seven figures along the way and winning a national championship during his senior year. After his last season finished, Gayle was not drafted by an NBA team, tried to earn […]

August 4, 2026
News & Commentary

Anthony Chen

WestJet reaches a deal to end a flight attendant strike; the NLRB rules Whole Foods legally banned Black Lives Matter display; a commentary argues college athletes should have the right to collectively bargain.

The Strike Zone—August 30, 2021

Aug 30, 2021 Alex Blutman

The NFL’s longstanding failure to hire non-white candidates into key coaching and executive positions has been well-documented, but a new ESPN analysis reveals much of the same lack of progress in college football. It was merely 1979 when Willie Jeffries became the first Black head coach hired to lead a Division I-A (now FBS, Football […]

The Strike Zone—July 19, 2021

Jul 19, 2021 Alex Blutman

As previously discussed, the Supreme Court’s opinion in NCAA v. Alston was a narrow ruling on strictly antitrust grounds, but the decision has the potential to more broadly alter the landscape of collegiate athletics. That potential is already being realized, as a proposed collective and class action suit seeks to apply the court’s reasoning in […]

The Strike Zone—College Athlete Right to Organize Act

May 31, 2021 Alex Blutman

Congressional Democrats have pushed forward another front in the movement to reshape college athletics. A bill introduced on May 27 would make college athletes employees of their respective schools with the right to form unions and bargain collectively. The collegiate athletic system is under attack from three sides. Several suits, most notably O’Bannon v. NCAA […]

The Supreme Court Goes to the Big Dance

Apr 6, 2021 Fred Wang

This spring, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is slated to generate nearly a billion dollars in revenue from its annual March Madness men’s basketball tournament. But only a small pinch of it (in the form of cost-of-attendance scholarships and modest academic achievement awards) will go directly to the competing student-athletes themselves—the majority-Black core of […]

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College Basketball Eligibility

August 4, 2026

The Strike Zone—August 30, 2021

The Strike Zone—July 19, 2021

The Strike Zone—College Athlete Right to Organize Act

The Supreme Court Goes to the Big Dance