Sam C. Ehrlich
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Associate Professor, @BoiseStateCOBE. Ex-lawyer who now writes about college sports law, and finds it neat. I track litigation involving college sports.
@PorkSoldier The NCAA is asking the court to stop the injunction from taking effect until an appellate court can decide whether it was correct to grant it. The court hasn't agreed to that yet, but did agree to speed up the briefing schedule so it make a decision quicker.
If we lose, we get nothing. Many of the players will be making very little NIL even if we prevail. Have you ever hired a lawyer on a contingency fee? Have they ever charged less? I'm sure the answer is that they charged a lot more. If the athletes and their families prefer to pay an hourly rate, that's fine by me. We have received no pushback thus far. So, why do you care so much?
Ole Miss is considering court as an option to get unpaid buyout payments from LSU football transfers Princewill Umanmielen and Devin Harper. clarionledger.com/story/sports/c…
Victory Vaka attended his mom's funeral on May 9. Weeks later, Western Kentucky canceled his scholarship. Now, multiple FBS teams want to sign him — but NCAA rules won't let him portal because of how WKU classified his departure It could end his career cbssports.com/college-footba…
We were told, no shot. Filled up our rosters. Maybe left a spot… so now we jettison the freshman? Don’t get me wrong, we will all create space, but it will be at someone else’s expense.
You've probably heard the theory that em dashes mean someone has used AI. AP Stylebook Editor Anna Jo Bratton disagrees in a blog post that acknowledges it would be helpful to have a clear and obvious tell when AI is the author. She writes: Unfortunately, that tell is not the em dash, which has been around for many years. In fact, they are so ubiquitous in AP lingo, we just call them dashes. Read more: apstylebook.com/blog_posts/24
