Antitrust - The Drake Group Education Fund

Consolidated Antitrust NIL Complaint (House, Prince, Oliver) Could Cost NCAA $1 Billion - Athletes are accusing the NCAA of illegally withholding earnings from athletes related to the use of their name, image and likeness (NIL). On Nov. 3, 2023, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken certified three classes of college athletes consisting of at least 184,000 individuals regarding damages in the case, meaning, the NCAA faces monetary loss in ... Read more
Carter, Harrison, and Prince Class Action Antitrust Lawsuit Seeks Athlete “Pay for Play” - On December 7, 2023, Winston & Strawn LLP and Hagens Berman today filed an antitrust class action lawsuit in the Northern District of California against the NCAA and the five power conferences (Big Ten, SEC, Pac-12, ACC, and Big 12). The firms also won the Alston v. NCAA in the Supreme Court and are currently ... Read more
Congress Granting a Conditional Limited Antitrust Exemption to the NCAA and Its Member Institutions - Absent an antitrust exemption, which only the Congress can provide, the NCAA will continue to be the target of antitrust lawsuits whenever it tries to implement educationally defensible reforms that have commercial consequences.
The Drake Group Response to Declaration of James E. Delany in Support of the NCAA’s Class Certification Opposition Brief - Our goal in this report is to provide information on whether NCAA restrictions on athletes’ free participation in the lucrative market for their images, likenesses and names is necessary either to uphold the principles of amateurism or to preserve the activity of intercollegiate athletics. The Drake Group is a national organization of faculty and others, ... Read more
Collegiate Athletics Reform: The Tainted Glory of College Sports - No doubt, Ridpath’s book will be considered by NCAA , college, and government officials as well as media supporters and other defenders of the status quo, as just the latest in a very long list of revelatory books on the corrupt college sports entertainment business – books they seem to believe are akin to attacks ... Read more
Collegiate Sports Reform: On Taxing College Sports Related Revenues - University athletics benefit from in what can be likened to a stealth entitlement. Donors can usually write off gifts for athletic facilities and the right-to-purchase tickets. For example, federal tax revenues are lost because more than 1,000 university sports departments are eligible to extort deductible gifts as a condition for ticket sales. »Read more