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ESPN “Talent.” All opinions expressed here are mine, and should be adopted by you immediately. No tipping.

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Tom Mars
Tom Mars@TomMarsLaw·
Michigan’s $11,000,000 legal bill from Jenner & Block divided by an average hourly rate of $1,200 equals 9,166 hours. At a whopping hypothetical average of 120 billed hours per week, 9,166 would be 76.3 weeks of legal work. Yet, Jenner & Block was reportedly hired by Michigan’s Board of Regents in mid-December 2025 - only 30 weeks ago. Now that’s something that ought to be investigated.
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Trey Wallace@TreyWallace

Michigan spent over $11 million on Jenner & Block law firm to investigate its athletic department regarding almost 6 years of scandals, NCAA investigations and one involving the FBI This was always going to end with people losing their jobs, or some type of “early retirement”

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Tom Mars@TomMarsLaw·
More on the NCAA’s idiotic assertion that the Ohio state court judge shouldn’t have heard an eligibility case. 🤯
Paul Fritschner@PaulFritschner

A lawyer just texted me this: “The NCAA’s assertion of bias against the trial court judge, who like many practitioners in Hamilton County attended UC Law, is a weird move given that a majority of the appellate court also attended UC Law and may not appreciate the implication they are unable to adjudicate the matter fairly.”

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Tom Mars@TomMarsLaw·
If I were the NCAA, I don’t think I’d be telling the whole world that my $2,000 an hour lawyers were so incompetent that they had no idea where the judge earned his degrees until they bothered to look him up on Google after the judge hammered their client. What’s more, everyone with half a brain knows the NCAA lawyers were aware of the judge’s background the minute the case was assigned to him and further knew that wasn’t grounds for recusal. There’s nothing worse than a poor loser. 😢
Ross Dellenger@RossDellenger

The Ohio judge who granted 15 athletes additional eligibility did not disclose his school “ties,” NCAA says in a statement to Yahoo. Chris Wagner is a graduate of Xavier & Cincinnati Law. His wife is a dean at UC Law. Five of the athletes are affiliated with Cincinnati/Xavier.

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Tom Mars@TomMarsLaw·
If the NCAA were an HOA, there wouldn’t be a single home in the neighborhood that wasn’t for sale. Why do the best universities in the country continue to let the NCAA run (ruin) college sports? When is someone going to strap on a backbone and say “that’s it, we’re done”?
Mit Winter@WinterSportsLaw

As the NCAA chooses to continue litigating these eligibility cases, the bad case law for it keeps piling up. Assuming the Protect College Sports Act doesn’t become law (safe assumption), I don’t see how P4 conferences choose to continue delegating rule making to the NCAA.

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ESPN@espn·
Breaking: The No. 1 player in the @SCNext Class of 2027, Marcus Spears Jr., is reclassifying to the Class of 2026. Spears Jr. is also committing to the University of Texas, he told @PaulBiancardi.
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Tom Crean
Tom Crean@TomCrean·
Head Coaches 1. Never delegate off what you are BEST at. 2. Never lose focus on doing the parts of coaching you love the most. 3. Surround yourself with people who bring you and your players energy. 4. If you hire INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS you’ll have numerous cliques around U.
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Ben Portnoy
Ben Portnoy@bportnoy15·
League-wide jersey patches + field logos have arrived. The Big 12 is set to announce a landmark deal with Monster Energy worth ~$20M annually, @SBJ has learned. Deal includes jersey patches, field/court logos and "entitlement partner" for FB, MBB & WBB. sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2026/…
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Michael McCann
Michael McCann@McCannSportsLaw·
The new NCAA eligibility rules should deter lawsuits. But that hasn't happened yet. In fact, there's a new set of lawsuits that could lead to more conflicting rulings across the states. I weigh the competing arguments, and forecast what could happen: sportico.com/law/analysis/2….
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Mit Winter
Mit Winter@WinterSportsLaw·
A good examination of why college basketball team payrolls have grown so quickly, and why they will likely continue to grow.
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Noah Henderson@NoahImgLikeness

Why are payrolls in college basketball exploding? The answer is not simply "rich boosters." Over the past month, I spoke with coaches, general managers, and agents across the country about how this year's transfer portal actually unfolded. I came away convinced that the biggest driver of today's market isn't irrational decision-making. It's an incentive structure where nearly everyone is rewarded for winning today's negotiation, while almost no one is rewarded for protecting the institution's long-term interests. The transfer portal is built on panic and the result is a predictable cycle: reservation prices drift, BATNAs deteriorate, negotiating leverage disappears, and today's overpayment becomes tomorrow's market rate. Yet a handful of programs appear to be approaching negotiation with far greater discipline than everyone else. My latest piece for @CollegeFrontO explores why payrolls keep rising, how behavioral economics helps explain the market, and why disciplined negotiation is a competitive advantage in roster construction. Link in comments.

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Mit Winter
Mit Winter@WinterSportsLaw·
An example of how some teams are holding roster spots for 4 year class of 2026 athletes who may get another season of competition as a result of lawsuits. If one of the pending lawsuits is successful there will be a lot more litigation.
Ross Dellenger@RossDellenger

Vanderbilt bball player Jalen Washington and 11 others are filing a lawsuit in Tennessee seeking additional eligibility related to NCAA’s new age-based policy. Many believe programs are keeping open spots for them. The filing includes a supportive letter from the Duquesne AD.

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Mark Adams
Mark Adams@EnthusiAdams·
WE HAD NO BASEBALLS now on Amazon! ⚾️ amazon.com/dp/B0H7TCRQS2 The story of the youngest roster in college baseball & a crazy old basketball lifer with his last dance on a diamond. It's a fun, gritty look at a most improbable marriage of team & coach. Foreword by @LanceMcAlister
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Mit Winter
Mit Winter@WinterSportsLaw·
Another example of how the NCAA’s eligibility rules with respect to international athletes continue to make no sense. Clear pros (even those who have been drafted by the NBA) can play as long as they didn’t play college sports previously.
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Jonathan Givony@DraftExpress

NEWS: Baylor transfer James Nnaji has committed to George Mason, his agency Gersh tells DraftExpress. The 7-foot, 21-year-old Nigerian center has three years of NCAA eligibility remaining after arriving stateside mid-season.

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Darren Heitner
Darren Heitner@heitner·
Here's the injunction order in Carsello v NCAA: heitnerlegal.com/wp-content/upl… Once again, a court has ruled that an athlete has a protectible right as a third-party beneficiary to the NCAA Manual and Bylaws. "One need only look to the statements in the NCAA Manual, which contains the NCAA's Constitution, to reach the conclusion that Mr. Carsello is an intended third-party beneficiary of that agreement." The court found that no remedy at law could replace Carsello playing football for Northwestern and that he would experience irreparable harm absent relief. The Court, importantly, said it did not intend to undermine the NCAA and even referred to it as "an honorable institution." But "with all due respect to the NCAA, the balancing of the equities weighs in Mr. Carsello's favor as the harm to the NCAA is much less than that which would occur to Mr. Carsello." You can say that this is just another state judge ignoring NCAA policy, but at some point you should recognize that these judges, who have tons of experience, are not simply seeking to obstruct the NCAA. In fact, this judge went as far as to state that he did not want to undermine the NCAA. He just demands that the NCAA follow its own rules. And that's what we keep fighting for across the country. This will be another case that we use in our challenges to NCAA denials and cancellations of waiver requests.
Adam Rittenberg@ESPNRittenberg

Northwestern starting center Jackson Carsello has been granted a preliminary injunction to play in the 2026 season, per Cook County circuit judge Neil Cohen.

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Mit Winter
Mit Winter@WinterSportsLaw·
Interesting look at how the NCAA’s new age based eligibility rule will affect college cross country rosters going forward. More than a quarter of 2025 All Americans (many of them international athletes) would have been too old to compete.
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Jonathan Gault@jgault13

More than a quarter of the men's All-Americans at 2025 NCAA XC would have been ineligible under the NCAA's new eligibility rules. But in the short term, we could see even more older international athletes. Spoke to some top coaches for their thoughts: letsrun.com/news/2026/07/t…

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Tom Mars
Tom Mars@TomMarsLaw·
Unless one believes there is a nationwide conspiracy among state court judges who hate the NCAA, this pattern of rulings suggests that either the NCAA is intentionally misapplying its eligibility rules or that the NCAA staff and the Appeals Committee are utterly incompetent.
Sam C. Ehrlich@samcehrlich

Another state court eligibility rule lawsuit win for a player: Nebraska-Omaha basketball player Isaac Ondekane has been granted an injunction by a Nebraska state court, allowing him to play the 2026-27 season for UNO. (Note: This is *not* a challenge to the new age-based rule)

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Chris Vannini
Chris Vannini@ChrisVannini·
Finally someone just says it. Michigan's president doesn't support the Senate bill because, "We are not going to sacrifice the competitive advantage that we have built for more than a century.”
Austin Meek@byAustinMeek

A 2-minute clip from a Michigan board meeting showed why fixing college sports is so difficult. Everybody says they want reform, but only if it enshrines the advantages they believe they’re entitled to. Grant me chastity, but just not yet. nytimes.com/athletic/74069…

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