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(Un)covering sports stories for @Sportico | Don’t make me sue you for public records | dlibit @sportico .com

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Daniel Libit
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UPDATE: @UWMadison and @UWFoundation have asked a court to dismiss my public records lawsuit over an @AltiusPartners contract because I asked for an agreement between UW & Altius, instead of UWF & Altius. (The former is how UW described the deal publicly). Here's our response:
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UPDATE: Barely 5 hours after we publish story about the @PGATOUR 's tax-exempt status in light of its @livgolf_league partnership, there's already a House bill proposed by @RepGaramendi to strip the tour of its 501-C designation. Read more:
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NEW: @PGATOUR Commish Jay Monahan has called his organization's controversial tax-exempt 501(c)(6) status a "central fabric to who we are." The tour's for-profit deal w/ @livgolf_league means that "fabric" will now be further stretched–and scrutinized.
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. @GlennThrush and @maggieNYT report on most back-handed political compliment in the history of the modern presidency.
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NEW: An 11-slide "confidential" @TurnkeyZRG pitch deck from February offers new details for the proposed college football "Super League," including how the 70 permanent members would be divvied up among 7 conferences. More from me and @novy_williams :
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NEW: @PGATOUR Commish Jay Monahan has called his organization's controversial tax-exempt 501(c)(6) status a "central fabric to who we are." The tour's for-profit deal w/ @livgolf_league means that "fabric" will now be further stretched–and scrutinized.
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BREAKING: In a major development for college athlete labor rights, @NLRB region finds that @USC , @pac12 *and* the @NCAA are all employers (or joint-employers) of USC football and basketball players.
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NEW: @Pac12 gave former commissioner Larry Scott a $1.86M interest-free home loan in 2009. The league's latest tax return shows he hadn't paid any of it back as of June 30, 2023. It's due in full next month. Granted, the league has bigger concerns:
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Breaking: A new Title IX lawsuit filed Friday by female athletes against @UOregon implicates @TheDivisionSt and @Opendorse and could have far-reaching consequences on NIL collectives. ✍️ (free):.
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It really is all about the purity of football, isn't it...
@KirkHerbstreit
Kirk Herbstreit
3 years
Ready for game day? @Goodyear and @Waze are giving you the chance to drive the @GoodyearBlimp to the big game. Download the Waze app & convert your car to CFB’s biggest icon. I’ll be your co-pilot giving you directions along the way. Link to activate: #Ad
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NEW: No, @USC is not purchasing @LincolnRiley 's Oklahoma houses as part of his contract. So confirms his realtor. And the rando author whose viral tweet claimed this is now "annoyed" his "hard work" in energy is playing second fiddle to football gossip.
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Daniel Libit
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NEWS: @UOregon confirms NCAA has recently sought information about a third-party NIL program, as well as school's policies. In September, Oregon alumni & boosters incl. @Nike founder Phil Knight launched entity Division St. to support UO athletes' NIL.
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NEW: @IndStBasketball donors are pricing out NIL money to keep star @Robbie_Avila30 and added funds to retain @CoachSchertzISU . Avila got $30K this year from @Xroadchamps collective, which is hoping to offer him $75-90K for next year. Much more👇
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NEWS: The @BigTen earned $880 million in revenue in FY23–overtaking the @SEC as highest-earning college conference–according to tax returns obtained by @Sportico . Ex-ex-commissioner Jim Delany was highest-paid employee earning $5.8M. Lots more:
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Beginning with former Sen. Tom Coburn in 2009, several members of Congress have proposed bills or amendments that would strip pro sports leagues earning over $10M from being able to file as federal charities. @SenJoniErnst tried in 2018 and @RepGregSteube tried in 2022.
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Daniel Libit
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NEW: Florida State @Seminoles reported finishing FY23 in debt after $22M increase in athletic department spending from the previous year. That's according to newly obtained financial disclosures obtained by @Sportico . Story w/ @novy_williams :
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Daniel Libit
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NEWS 🧵: I've filed a federal lawsuit against @WestPoint_USMA over its (and the other service academies') policy of denying FOIA requests related to Army's athletic department. I explain more in @Sportico today: #sportslaw #journalism #NCAA #Army
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NEW: Since trademarking its blue turf in early 2010's, @BoiseState has claimed common-law rights to any non-green field. Everyone has played along, asking the Broncos for permission before laying their alternative turf. But not so for SUNY Morrisville:
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SCOOP: According to a @Sportico analysis of Donald Trump’s recent FEC financial disclosure, golf-related income accounted for as much as $550M of his $1.2B in reported earnings from Jan. 1 2022 to April 14. @novy_williams , @LevAkabas and me:
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Daniel Libit
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NEW: I FOIA'd hundreds of NCAA-mandated "athletically related outside income" disclosure forms for college coach & admin outside, which give a sense of what athletes could make, if allowed. (Jim Harbaugh pocketed an extra $250K for that 2019 @Downy ad.)
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Daniel Libit
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NEW: Trump lawyer John Lauro's failed attempt to unmask Jane Doe suing ex-NBA player Josh Jackson for sex assault. 🔗: *Lauro argued JJ couldn't be alleged perpetrator since police report ID'd person as "KTD." (It's an acronym for "known to department.")
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Daniel Libit
2 years
BREAKING: THE BANK @DukeMBB 's retiring head coach Mike Krzyzewski earned $12.5 million in 2020-21, according to the school's tax filings released today. My latest for @Sportico on Coach K's many M's:
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Daniel Libit
8 years
Well, Gary Johnson is. You? Not so much.
@DrJillStein
Dr. Jill Stein🌻
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Trump down to 32% in key states = can't even win a 3-way race. @GovGaryJohnson & I are rising. Time to demand 4 person debates! #OpenDebates
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SCOOP: @NCAA enforcement is now probing the whole-team NIL deals for @MiamiHurricanes and @BYUCougars , the precursor to formal investigations. Athletic compliance officials across country have eagerly anticipating NCAA's move. Story w/ @novy_williams :
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As I note in the story, the @PGATOUR has faced criticism about this for years. In 2013, @pinepaula reported in an @OTLonESPN episode that the tour had saved up to $200M in federal taxes over the previous 20 years.
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For context: After the @NFL voluntarily relinquished its 501-C status in 2015, @PGATOUR became the last major US sporting league to continue to file as an IRS-recognized nonprofit. Experts say it makes tax/logistical sense for them to carry on as such.
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GOOD NEWS: My 6 1/2 year lawsuit against the University of New Mexico Foundation is done and won. The New Mexico Supreme Court quashed cert in my consolidated cases against @UNMFund and @UNMLoboClub , affirming appellate ruling that they are subject to public records requests.
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NEW: John Lauro, the lawyer helming Donald Trump's sprawling criminal defense, is also representing former NBA Lotto pick Josh Jackson in civil sex abuse case. Lauro once defended ex-NBA official Tim Donaghy on gambling charges.
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Daniel Libit
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside the frantic and convoluted effort to get Colorado’s top football stars insurance *after* Travis Hunter’s near-career-ending injury. My latest with @novy_williams : #coloradobuffaloes #CFB
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NEW: With the Mark Adams suspension, @TexasTech AD @KirbyHocutt now faces his fifth (!) alleged coaching-abuse scandal in Lubbock. At what point does this track record cost an athletic director their job? I explain more in @Sportico :
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EXCLUSIVE: @Win_AD 's owners make millions commoditizing public financial disclosures of college athletic departments. Meanwhile, they've been accused of an elaborate asset-concealment scheme w/ an ex-felon. A 9-month @Sportico investigation... #longreads
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Daniel Libit
8 years
Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and Roger Ailes will be running a new conservative news outfit in 2017, so long as they can agree on the name.
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Daniel Libit
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NEW: NCAA Prez Charlie Baker told Congress that none of the 1,000 college athletes he's spoken to since March want employee status. "I think, in the literal sense, what Baker said is impossible," says @ChaseQB11 . I unpack Baker's anecdotal evidence: .
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NEW: NIL has been very good for K Street. @TheACC spent over $1 million lobbying Congress in 2023, triple what it paid the previous year. The @SEC spent $790K, doubling its '22 spending. My latest for @Sportico on NCAA-related influence peddling:
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Daniel Libit
8 years
Keeping in mind Hillary didn't rip on Bernie's wife, or accuse his father of conspiring to assassinate JFK.
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Glenn Thrush
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Let us take a moment to reflect on the comparison between @BernieSanders and @tedcruz -- and how they handled their Number Two-ness...
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NEW -- Lawyers for @ClemsonTigers track athletes in dual #TitleIX claims against school raised allegations of football players receiving cars during settlement talks. My inside look into the legal jousting that led to teams' "historic" reinstatement:
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SCOOP: An "outside-the-box" proposal to use thousands of college sports programs as military recruitment vehicles has circulated Pentagon leadership & Capitol Hill over last 7 months. And it hasn't been shot down yet. @novy_williams & I report:
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Daniel Libit
10 years
In light of Bruce Pearl's hiring, here's my @deadspin piece on the scandal that defined him. http://t.co/Val6xhPcYT
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NEW: @NCAA 's latest tax return shows former COO Donald Remy banking $3.6M in 2022, ($2.4M severance payment). Emmert did well, per usual, as did outside law firms. Meanwhile, workforce shrank to its lowest numbers in eight years. Me + @novy_williams :
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NEW: On its tax returns, @USSoccer reported $19M in attorney bills from April '19 to March '20, almost half what it paid for all 868 of its employees. That's just part of the $87M I tallied of #TeamUSA 's disclosed legal fees over a 4-year period.
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NEW: Yesterday, the @NCAA made a $30,000-plus "student enhancement fund" bet that it could keep college athletes from becoming employees. Today, @ChrisMurphyCT and @SenSanders saw the bet and raised it unionization. Here's their legislative proposal: .
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😀NEWS: New Mexico Court of Appeals affirms a district court's ruling for me in my public records (IPRA) lawsuits against @UNMFund & @UNMLoboClub , which argued that private non-profits that solely exist to support a public university ( @UNM ) are subject to public disclosure laws.
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Daniel Libit
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Counterpoint: he’s the president.
@brithume
Brit Hume
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The problem with Trump is that he thinks everything is about him. The problem with his too many of his critics is that they do too.
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For now, NCAA’s fact-finding has stopped short of formal infractions investigations and there remains open question as to whether NCAA would want to risk more lawsuits and public backlash by punishing schools for NIL projects that improve athletes' lives.
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8 years
ESPN basketball reporter @Chris_Broussard shoots out email asking people to "pray for Steph." #WARRIORSvCAVS
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New -- In an unprecedented show of collective dissent from those who have served within the NCAA's ranks, six former NCAA officials filed an amici curiae brief in support of the players suing the association for violating antitrust law.
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NEWS: Connor Stalions' Michigan home is for sale, listed for $525,000 ($40K more than he paid for it.) And like seemingly all Stalions-related news, this real estate tidbit comes with a bit of curiosity. Read on:
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SCOOP: The @NLRB has recently decided to table its investigation of a broader unfair labor practices charge on behalf of all NCAA athletes to focus on one that specifically deals with @USC football and basketball players. The latter was filed by @NCPANOW .
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3 years
Wow -- @UNM has thus far allocated $12,517,252 of its federal Covid relief funds (CARES ACT and HEERF II) to athletics, according to school memos. In-state rival @NMSU recently caught flack for the $3.5M in Covid funds its athletic department has used. #GoLobos #NCAA
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2 years
Context: Multi-million-dollar coach buyouts don't make school administrators think twice.
@FOS
Front Office Sports
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Six-figure fines don’t seem to be deterring schools from allowing fans to storm their fields after games. Now, the SEC and Big 12 are taking steps to figure out what will. @achristovichh explains ⤵️
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NEW: The cautionary tale of for-profit NAIA school Antelope Valley, which teeters on financial ruin, has managed one bright spot: The @UAV_Pioneers basketball teams have successfully crowdfunded the salvation of their postseasons. w/ @novy_williams
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Daniel Libit
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EXCLUSIVE: A @Sportico / @HarrisPoll survey shows Americans are over college sports amateurism. ▶️67% favor direct compensation from schools ▶️64% favor athlete employee status ▶️59% favor unionization @LevAkabas and I explain and📉:
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Daniel Libit
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NEW: Prior to his death, Mike Leach spent ~ $300K funding public records litigation against his former employer, @TexasTech . His proxy plaintiff & attorneys want to keep the fight going. But as with so much in–and after–life, it'll all come down to $$.
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Daniel Libit
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GOOD NEWS: In February, I filed a #FOIA suit against @GoArmyWestPoint over its longstanding policy of denying athletics records requests. Now, it's agreed to honor my requests and those of any other member of the public. @novy_williams and I explain:
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Daniel Libit
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. @kennyjacoby @nrarmour and @jessicawluther deserve a Pulitzer Prize for what they've dug from the swamps of Baton Rouge. In the past, newspapers have won Pulitzers for busting schools on "impermissible benefits." This journalism is a metric ton more meaningful.
@kennyjacoby
Kenny Jacoby
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Seven women filed a class-action lawsuit against LSU, its board, @lsutaf and 13 employees, alleging a conspiracy to cover up their sexual misconduct reports and a school that prioritized its reputation and football over their safety. New w/ @nrarmour
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Daniel Libit
2 years
NEWS: Sen. @TTuberville says he has no interest in going "overboard" by granting he NCAA an antitrust exemption next Congress. Last week, he, @Sen_JoeManchin , @CoryBooker and @SenBlumenthal met to discuss their competing NIL bills.
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Daniel Libit
2 years
EXCLUSIVE: The unfolding legal drama fallout over Scott Foster/ @VarsitySpirit . #Cheerleading * Varsity defends itself on-the-record * Lawsuits in "other jurisdictions" * The antitrust litigation tie-in * The unreported saga of Mark Warrick
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Daniel Libit
4 years
Personal news: 13 years ago I was excited to join a young, up-and-coming online political publication called @Politico . Now, I’m excited to join a young, up-and-coming online sports publication called @Sportico . The more things change, the more they end with the same suffix.
@TheIntercollege
The Intercollegiate
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NEWS — We’re taking the #FOIASaxa show to @Sportico ! @DanielLibit and @LurkCyphers are joining Sportico’s terrific staff. @TheIntercollege podcast will re-launch soon. We’re thrilled and grateful. (First reported in today's @Axios Sports newsletter: )
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NEW: @BigTen commissioner Tony Petitti's first five months on the job has seen a marked return to the Jim Delany way and a spurning of Kevin Warren's efforts to autonomize the league office. ✍️(free): 🧵: Here's some of the key takeaways...
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Daniel Libit
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Arizona AD posing with the “mitigation provision” of the new head FB coach’s employment contract is unconscious brilliance at its finest. #BearDown , indeed.
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@Dave_Heeke
Dave Heeke
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Got our guy! Let’s Go! Great Future! Bear Down! ⁦ @AZATHLETICS ⁩ ⁦ @ArizonaFBall
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SCOOP: Unlike @Packers , the @NYJets declined to take out disability insurance on Aaron Rodgers prior to the season. Sources tell @Sportico coverage could have recouped them $20+ million of his $37M they owe him this year. Story w/ @novy_williams :
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EXCLUSIVE: Rep. @BillPascrell , who died last week, previously told @Sportico that if Dems retook House, one of his "priorities" as Ways/Means Oversight Subcom chair was to challenge college athletic depts. tax exemptions. Will any other member now try?
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Daniel Libit
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NEW: Tens of millions of dollars of federal #COVID relief funds have already found their ways into D-I athletic departments, a @Sportico analysis has found. Programs rich & poor are consuming stimulus monies for tests, PPE and lost revenue. My story:
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NEWS: A new California college athlete compensation bill would allow/require schools to share revenue with athletes it determines have a market value above their scholarships, putting onus on schools to square such payments with #TitleIX . My story:
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NEW: @MSU_Athletics associate AD @KevinPauga tells me his conference schedule consultancies, @FAKTOR & Optimal Scheduling, are now approaching $1 million in annual revenue. I profile for @Sportico how Pauga's accidental side hustle turned has boomed:
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NEW: A report released this week by the @USGAO confirmed the open secret of #TitleIX 's gender-equity requirements related to college athletics: They are systematically violated and essentially unenforced. Story for @Sportico :
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NCAA reinstated the outside-income disclosure rule, following 2017 college basketball corruption scandal, to help safeguard amateurism. Instead, it may have had the unintended effect of delivering a rhetorical arsenal to pay-the-player advocates. #irony
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Daniel Libit
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NEW: I FOIA'd hundreds of NCAA-mandated "athletically related outside income" disclosure forms for college coach & admin outside, which give a sense of what athletes could make, if allowed. (Jim Harbaugh pocketed an extra $250K for that 2019 @Downy ad.)
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NEW — Will I soon be able to FOIA college athlete endorsement contracts?🤷Should I be able to? My latest for @Sportico delves into the riddle of #NIL disclosure rules, which alone threaten to knock this NCAA reform half-measure off its tiny fulcrum:
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Sex abuse plaintiffs' attorney @Bakari_Sellers tells @Sportico : “A lot of people compare this to Larry Nassar, and I am not sure that is an accurate comparison. Larry Nassar was one sick motherfucker. Imagine having hundreds of sick motherfuckers.”
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NEW: @VarsityBrands and @BainCapital have agreed to pay a class of cheerleading antitrust plaintiffs $82.5M, a third of which will go to their attorneys. Settlement, pending court approval, also addresses Varsity's business practices. More details:
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Who better to lecture on the bane of public subsidies than a highly-paid public university employee enriched through a national basketball cartel? Also:
@coachbrucepearl
Bruce Pearl
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Your Socialist Government spending flooded a recovering post COVID economy and created inflation! Your energy policy created the gas shortage and record high prices! Your policies are hurting the working class! Call timeout! Change defenses! Do something different please! @POTUS
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At a desperate moment when the NCAA is hoping for a federal solution to NIL, @ChrisMurphyCT and @RepLoriTrahan go for the amateurism's jugular. @McCannSportsLaw on the new College Athlete Right to Organize Act: via @sportico
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NEW: Of all the D-I college sports scandals, almost never has an AD been criminally tried for one. But that's on the docket next week in New Mexico, where ex- @UNMLOBOS AD Paul Krebs faces felony charges over 2015 booster golf outing. A story I know well:
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NEW: It wasn't Covid, Trump's tweet, nor the Nebraska player lawsuit. No, arguably the greatest treachery of @BigTen Commish @KevinFWarren 's tenure has occurred w/in his own staff. Me + @_emcaron dive deep into Warren's rabbit hole: #B1GMediaDays
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Daniel Libit
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New -- #NIL and Alston have made college sports compliance –already a weary job–increasingly so. "It sounds like a powder keg for unionization," says a former P5 compliance director. What's the future for college sports' "dumping ground"? My story:
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SCOOP: The cheerleading sex-abuse lawsuit filed in 2020 against Jerry Harris by two Texas twins–Sam & Charlie–who named @VarsitySpirit and @USASFcheer as defendants, quietly settled last fall. The outcome is full of paradoxes. I unpack them in @Sportico :
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NEW: I've filed my third public records lawsuit against the University of New Mexico Foundation, which continues to deny records requests despite the New Mexico Court of Appeals having ruled against @UNMFund 's arguments for exemption in my previous lawsuit. Play stupid games...
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Daniel Libit
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NEW: College football is great for boosting a school's student body, right? Wrong, says a comprehensive new study. It looked at enrollment trends of 36 schools that added football since 2002. My latest for @Sportico :
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Daniel Libit
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Dept. of Hypocrisy: While @FloridaState has been publicly condemning @theACC ’s refusal to disclose documents—and soliloquizing about transparency—it’s played a cat-and-mouse game with records @Sportico has sought related to its efforts at raising PE money for athletics.
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Daniel Libit
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NEW: With the confidentiality clause in Texas' new NIL law, the political tide has decidedly turned against public access to college athlete endorsement deals. First Amendment/press advocates argue that this is a problem. #FOIA #NCAA
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Daniel Libit
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EXCLUSIVE: @Sportico / @HarrisPoll surveyed political leanings of fan bases for 16 pro sport leagues and 3 college sports. 🔗: ➡️ @livgolf_league fans lean left ➡️ @PGATour goes right ➡️ #CFB very conservative ➡️ @WNBA perfectly bipartisan Much More👇
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Daniel Libit
8 years
I don't trust Trump campaign data/poll operation enough to even accept their pessimistic foreshadowing.
@costareports
Robert Costa
8 years
Kellyanne Conway to @chucktodd : Trump “didn’t have the full support of the Republican infrastructure"
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Daniel Libit
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NEWS (x 2): The attorneys general of Montana and South Dakota tell @Sportico they're weighing legal options in face of House v. NCAA settlement that Montana AG calls "unfair" to his state's schools. Story w/ @McCannSportsLaw 's legal analysis:
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Daniel Libit
2 years
NEW: At a moment of great promise and peril for the #cheerleading industry, @USACheer has asserted itself as the *independent NGB that can guide the sport out of its scandal-ridden present. *But what about its multimillion-dollar ties to @VarsitySpirit ?
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Daniel Libit
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I’m endlessly amused by the “but they’ll have to pay taxes” argument against college athlete employment made by those who themselves have decided that paying a percentage of your earnings is better than having no earnings to pay a percentage from.
@McCannSportsLaw
Michael McCann
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College athletes already follow employment-like rules--or, as NLRB regional director Laura Sacks concluded this month about Dartmouth basketball players, actual employment rules. Also, colleges already employ students, who must follow employee handbooks. Dartmouth, in fact,
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Daniel Libit
3 years
Dear Academics Who Study College Sports: I am interested in your discoveries and findings. If you would like to give me a head's up as to what you are researching--even if you're just midstream in that process--please email me at dlibit(at)sportico(dot)com.
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Daniel Libit
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NOTE: @NCAA 's research department has yet to actually poll current athletes on their feeling about employee status. @WinterSportsLaw : "They are not dumb. They know if they put a poll out, there are going to be college athletes who want to be employees."
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Daniel Libit
10 months
NEW: NCAA Prez Charlie Baker told Congress that none of the 1,000 college athletes he's spoken to since March want employee status. "I think, in the literal sense, what Baker said is impossible," says @ChaseQB11 . I unpack Baker's anecdotal evidence: .
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Daniel Libit
2 years
NEWS: A new Congressional bill would add language to #TitleIX allowing feds to fine schools for athletic gender-equity noncompliance. Bill cosponsored by Dems @ChrisMurphyCT , @RepLoriTrahan , @RepAdams & @RepBonamici . They plan to reintroduce it next yr.
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Daniel Libit
2 years
NEW: If you want to grasp the economic dissonance in college sports, behold: an expense report submitted last year by 5-foot-7 @UCLAMBB coach Mick Cronin, seeking reimbursement for a $49 SUV upgrade. My latest for @Sportico : #MarchMadness2022 #UCLA #FOIA
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Daniel Libit
8 years
How courageous for "Anonymous" to write this story.
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Glenn Greenwald
8 years
A liberal writes in @Guardian how he was radicalized by @SamHarrisOrg into full-scale hatermongering against Muslims
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Daniel Libit
3 years
NEW: How's this for an Alliance? A #Big12 professor ( @Johnsportslaw ) paid #B1G athlete ( @Geo_Baker_1 ) $100 to promote an #NCAA reform article for an #SEC law school ( @UFLaw ). Said the prof of his ironic #NIL play: “I didn’t want anybody to steal it."
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Daniel Libit
3 years
Compensation of college athletes is inevitable and will likely expose some universities' questionable accounting practices (opinion)
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Daniel Libit
8 months
NEW: Blueprint Sports, cofounded by Nevada's Secretary of State, insists its "one of the good guys" in the controversial NIL collective space. 🔗: But @PoweredByBPS 's companion charity & other ties raise conflict-of-interest questions. I delve in 👇
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Daniel Libit
2 months
NEWS: House v. NCAA settlement will not be submitted for court approval today, as originally planned. Plaintiffs' lawyer Jeffrey Kessler tells @Sportico NCAA and conferences have been "extraordinarily slow" in finalizing long-form deal. More here:
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Daniel Libit
6 months
Robbie Avila’s marketing agent tells @Sportico of NIL 💵offers that have come this week. Looks to sign $75-100k of deals Advanced discussions with @oakley about line of line of Avila-branded 🥽 Partnership/internship with @MLB team More…
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Daniel Libit
4 years
You can fire as many Les Miles (or Art Briles) as you want, these problems aren’t going to cease until the incentive structure of college sports is fundamentally changed. Rinse. Repeat.
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Daniel Libit
2 years
NEW: @NLRBGC Abruzzo tells @Sportico she's not surprised current college athletes have failed to take any formal steps towards unionizing 9 months after her memo declaring them employees. Says they may fear retaliation. More from me + @McCannSportsLaw :
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Daniel Libit
3 years
News: @JeremyBloom11 's company plans to spend seven-figures signing NIL deals with walk-ons. His initiative is meant, in part, to strike a final blow at the argument long made by amateurism's defenders that only big-time athletes would earn money. Story:
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