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Former Olympians Martina Navratilova, Nancy Hogshead Makar, and Donna de Varona lead a a blue-ribbon slate of researchers, lawyers, athletes, gender equity experts and sports administrators to address the topic of transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s interscholastic, intercollegiate and open Olympic and club sports. Panelists will explore whether eligibility for participation should be based … Read more
Universities must not only focus on their own Title IX compliance obligations to provide male and female athletes with equal participation opportunities, athletics scholarship support, and equal treatment and benefits (including promotion, publicity, and recruiting), they must also require the third parties they establish, control, assist, or benefit from — conferences, national governing organizations, businesses, … Read more
A regular feature of The Drake Group Webinar Series — Critical Issues in Collegiate Athletics is “Follow-Up Questions and Answers” which provides answers to questions from the audience that panelists did not have the time to address. See Webinar #2 Q&As Here (PDF) Click Here for full recording of the Webinar
A regular feature of The Drake Group Webinar Series — Critical Issues in Collegiate Athletics is “Follow-Up Questions and Answers” which provides answers to questions from the audience that panelists did not have the time to address. See Webinar #1 Follow-Up Q&As (PDF) See Webinar #1 recording (PDF)
The Drake Group believes that the commercialization of intercollegiate athletic programs has not only challenged the academic integrity of higher education but resulted in a predominantly White community of higher education administrators, athletic department administrators, coaches, and staff turning a blind eye to the racism underlying the economic, education and other forms of exploitation harming … Read more
Drake Group leaders explain how college athletes are being harmed by the current NCAA constructed system of college sports, why the NCAA won’t fix it and how Congress must be involved to find solutions. See the full story
Katie Lever, member of the The Drake Group Board of Directors and its Chief Communications Officer joins Jay Bilas, Maddie Salamone, Marc Edelman, Christina Chenault for a Power Check Ball Podcast discussing the end of NCAA restrictions on college athletes making money from endorsements outside their participation in intercollegiate athletics. LINK to: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-4-nil-a-live-celebration-feat-an-all-star-panel/id1572131357?i=1000528338120
Andrew Zimbalist, Smith College and President-Elect of The Drake Group, speaks on the implication of the June on the implications of the Supreme Court decision on compensation for college athletes on the June 23, 2021 Bloomberg Baystate Business Podcast: The Truth LINK¹ ¹ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2021-06-22/baystate-business-the-truth-radio (audio isn’t available)
U.S. Senators Booker and Blumenthal introduced S. 5062 College Athletes Bill of Rights as legislation to be considered by the 116th Congress in December of 2020. At the time, the bill was heralded as extraordinarily progressive legislation. We asked Allen Sack, a co-founder of The Drake Group, to write a first person narrative of the … Read more
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