The college football coach carousel is in full swing and in this era of college football, each school competes in an arms race of sorts for not only the top
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The college football coach carousel is in full swing and in this era of college football, each school competes in an arms race of sorts for not only the top…
Continue Reading B1G Time Coaching – A Look Into Matt Campbell’s Contract with Penn State
Athletes, entertainers, musicians and other individuals at the vanguard of their fields (whether it be the next Super Bowl MVP quarterback, Grammy-winning artist, or Oscar-winning director), often surround themselves with…
Continue Reading The Dream “TEAM” – Talent, Esquire, Agent, and Manager
New York Jets Star Cornerback Ahmad “Sauce” Gardner (“Gardner”) engaged in a back-and-forth exchange with a Buffalo Bills fan (the “Fan”) on X (formerly Twitter) prompting a civil suit for…
Continue Reading Clapback and Pay Up?: New Jersey Court Issues $50,000 Attorneys’ Fee Award Against Fan Under Anti-SLAPP Statute
UPDATE (November 21, 2025): This Proposed Change has been rescinded by Division I member schools, and therefore gambling will remain prohibited in all divisions of the NCAA.
Gambling and sports…
Continue Reading Betting On It: NCAA To Permit Professional Sports Gambling
The current dispute between the Las Vegas Raiders (“Raiders”) and Christian Wilkins (“Wilkins”) is more than a football headline; it underscores how fragile the concept of “guaranteed” money can be—not…
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The consolidation trend in Hollywood continues with the closing of another big merger. The long-gestating acquisition of talent agency ICM Partners by its rival CAA closed today. The deal was…
Continue Reading And Then There Were Three: CAA-ICM Merger ClosesThe Animation Guild (TAG) is on a roll. The union very recently announced a settlement with the AMPTP, the studios’ bargaining representative, on a new blanket contract, up for a…
Continue Reading Animation Guild Posts Further Gains
IATSE, the union representing below-the-line production workers from cinematographers and editors to grips and hair stylists, has moved a crucial step closer to its first strike since 1945. In a…
Continue Reading IATSE Members Overwhelmingly Vote Yes on Strike Authorization
We are not out of the woods yet.
Just as Hollywood was coping with the early effects of the pandemic, it barely avoided a Writers Guild strike. After a…
Continue Reading Gaffers, Grips Going, Gone as IATSE Threatens Walkout
A group of over 100 feature film producers have announced their intention to form a labor union. The group is led by producer Rebecca Green (“It Follows”), who says the…
Continue Reading Film Producers Announce Intention to Unionize–Again