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  • November 06, 2026

    St. Louis Hoops Star Wins 5th Year Of NCAA Eligibility

    A Missouri judge has granted a fifth year of eligibility to basketball star Robbie Avila, a bespectacled forward for Saint Louis University who briefly suited up for the Los Angeles Lakers' Summer League squad, the latest ruling in a wave of suits brought by athletes claiming they were unfairly excluded by new NCAA eligibility regulations.

  • November 06, 2026

    FIFA Legal Chief Calls Full Time After Eight Years

    FIFA's chief legal and compliance officer said Friday that he is leaving the position after almost eight years, making way for the governing body to promote an internal regulatory lawyer into the top job.

  • November 06, 2026

    10th Circ. Lifts Block On New NCAA Eligibility Rule

    The Tenth Circuit on Friday reversed a lower court's preliminary decision that would have granted another year of eligibility to thousands of NCAA athletes, finding that the trial judge erred by defining the relevant market for antitrust review as all Division I athletics in the United States.

  • November 05, 2026

    Live Nation Cites 2nd Circ. Eyewear Ruling In Fighting Verdict

    Live Nation has told a New York federal judge that the Second Circuit's recent EssilorLuxottica ruling "bears on the market-definition issues" raised in Live Nation's post-trial motions challenging its antitrust trial loss, while enforcing states argued that the Ninth Circuit's recent NFL Sunday Ticket ruling reversal backs their trial win.

  • November 05, 2026

    Guardians Aces Preview Defense With Brewers' Bo Naylor

    Milwaukee Brewers catcher Bo Naylor on Thursday took the witness stand in the prop betting trial of a pair of Cleveland Guardians pitchers accused of a spot-fixing scheme, giving jurors an early look at a defense case that portrayed allegedly suspect pitches as routine.

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