From William Barrett of Forbes:
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Shaun Assael of ESPN has a good article (subscription required) highlighting “five lawsuits that will change sports.” Sports Law Blog’s Mike McCann and Gabe Feldman are both quoted. The article also has links to actual court documents in each case. Recommended reading! more…

The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting that Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, a long-time critic of the Bowl Championship Series, met yesterday with officials from the U.S. Department of Justice regarding a potential antitrust suit against the BCS. Following the meeting, Shurtleff said he was “blown away” by the government’s due diligence on the issue, and found it hard to imagine a scenario where either the state or federal government did not file suit against the BCS. He noted however that he believed the DOJ would be best positioned to challenge the BCS in court, not only due to the likely cost of such a suit, but “because AGs from around the nation often represent the major universities in their states and it is the college presidents who make up the BCS.”

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I look forward to being a part of next week’s sports law symposium at New York Law School. Here are the details (and outstanding work by 3L Alycia Huckabey, the founder and president of the New York Law School Sports Law Society, in putting this event together):

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Video of the panels below can be found at this link.

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