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Sports & Betting Law360 provides breaking legal news and analysis on the sports industry. Coverage includes litigation, policy developments, and deals involving sports teams and players, sports leagues, sports gambling, and athletics and gaming companies.
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Latest News in Sports & Betting
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February 23, 2026
Snow Delays Goldstein Deliberations Until Tuesday
The jury in SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's tax evasion trial won't be back to deliberate until Tuesday, after snow prompted courts in the District of Maryland to close Monday.
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February 23, 2026
Judge Hands NCAA Eligibility Win, Denies Tenn. QB's Bid
University of Tennessee quarterback Joey Aguilar's challenge to NCAA rules limiting his eligibility after transferring from junior college was cut short by a Tennessee state judge, who denied an injunction request that would allow him to play next season.
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February 23, 2026
Live Nation Wants To Appeal DOJ Antitrust Case Now
Live Nation Entertainment Inc. is asking a New York federal court for permission to immediately appeal last week's ruling that teed-up several claims for trial early next month in the monopolization case being brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and state enforcers.
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February 23, 2026
Nev. Judge Lets Pitcher Play, Skewers NCAA Eligibility Rules
A baseball player whose college career was interrupted by injuries and other factors has been granted a chance to play for a major program by a Nevada federal judge who called the NCAA's past defenses of its eligibility rules "insufficient."
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February 23, 2026
The Challenges Of Detecting Event Contract Manipulation
While concerns about possible manipulation and insider trading in event contracts have increasingly been raised by market observers, distinguishing a speculative position from a hedge and effective surveillance make regulation difficult, particularly as the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission argues for exclusive jurisdiction to do so, say economic consultants at the Brattle Group.
Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- Sports governing bodies
- State attorney general offices
- State gaming regulators
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Sports-related legislation and regulation
- Regulation of sports gambling and fantasy sports
- Stadium zoning and finance issues
- Sports industry lobbying
- ENFORCEMENT
- Bribery and corruption investigations of sports teams or gaming companies
- Criminal investigations into sports betting
- Disciplinary actions and enforcement
- LITIGATION
- Suits involving players, coaches, teams and leagues
- Disputes involving college athletes, including amateurism and discrimination
- Player safety issues
- Trademark disputes
- Right to publicity issues
- Fights over media distribution rights
- Suits over stadium projects
- Cases involving current and former sports figures
- TRANSACTIONS
- Mergers, acquisitions and franchise expansions
- Team ownership changes, team relocations and efforts to raise capital
- Stadium finance deals
- Stadium naming rights and sponsorship deals
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of sports law and gaming law practices
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- Executives and attorneys at player unions, sports teams, sports consulting firms and gaming companies
- Information experts at law firms, agencies and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students and library staff at accredited law schools in the U.S.
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