Marc Edelman

Classic example of Manfred League Baseball.

In 1898, Spiders manager Patsy Tebeau told a struggling player if he struck out again, he’d be off the team. That player, Wendell Buntinger, squared up and put barrel to ball. The “bunt” was born.

In honor of the start of the #NCAA men's basketball tournament, here is my very first law review article, published nearly 25 years ago in @MichiganLaw_JLR, entitled "Reevaluating Amateurism Standards in Men's College Basketball." Reform successful? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Next time someone writes about the confrontation last summer between Bryce Harper and Robert Manfred, ask yourself which one has a track record of behaving like a humble gentleman?

This is good to see. At a moment when women’s basketball is substantially increasing in popularity, a work stoppage could have been a momentum killer, and very bad for all sides.

Dana Rubenstein of @nytimes writes about the potential for new casinos in Northern New Jersey. I am quoted, expressing my doubt that new brick & mortar casinos near the NY border would do much to help NJ's economy in today's era of online betting. nytimes.com/2026/03/13/nyr…

It’s been a long time since I’ve rooted against a school in the #NCAA bball tournaments. But after that wild letter Louisville’s president wrote complaining about college athlete economic rights, I’d love to see the @USFAthletics and @uvmvermont send that ‘red’ school home.

A heads up to @BaruchCollege and @Baruch_Zicklin students: I’ll be teaching Antitrust Law in Fall 2026 on M/W at 10:45 am. The class will be taught in the traditional law school style, similar to how I taught it last year at both Cardozo Law School and the Sorbonne.

Not everybody is going to like my take on college sports, and that’s okay. But, I will say this: when I left Skadden for academia, I traded away big salary for academic freedom. And, ever since, I’ve spent my career advocating what I believe to be just. Also, I sleep like a baby.

@TonyBruin Curious when and where you attended college. During my time at UPenn (1995-99) and Michigan (2000-03), the football and basketball players regularly attended class unless they were affirmatively pulled out. Do you know who had the lowest attendance rates at UPenn? The legacies.

@MarcEdelman Like any of them physically show up for classes during the season….please….

The next three weeks of U.S. college sports will be fascinating. 68 men’s basketball teams are going to miss class for up to three weeks to earn their schools collectively billions in revenue. Meanwhile, #NCAA advocates will cry “student-athlete,” poverty and existential crisis.

@PhilipNILIP @DanielLibit Phillip, for the second time in replying to a quote of mine, you removed an important comma (not to mention internal quotations) in a way that changed the meaning of what I said.

@MarcEdelman @DanielLibit Serious question—Who is saying this? Who is “crying student athlete poverty and existential crisis” in view of them missing school to play March Madness?

I’ve arrived at the Sport & Discrimination symposium, this year held in Dublin, Ireland. It’s a pleasure to represent ⁦@Baruch_Zicklin⁩ on these very important issues.

For those interested in what we believe is a viable future for already highly commercialized college sports, Suneal, John and I suggest the potential for private equity financing (article in ‘tweeX’ below). Realistically, we are talking about 2-4 sports at roughly 50-100 schools

There’s a big difference between saying some college athletes are employees (as @McCannSportsLaw, John Holden and I have argued for years) and that all college athletes are (we’ve never said that). To remove any doubt, this is what we’ve been arguing: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…