NCAA Gets Blown Out in Major Supreme Court Antitrust Decision
The unanimous ruling could pave the way for greatly expanded compensation for college athletes.
The unanimous ruling could pave the way for greatly expanded compensation for college athletes.
"Hospitals cannot agree to cap nurses' income in order to create a 'purer' form of helping the sick. News organizations cannot join forces to curtail pay to reporters to preserve a 'tradition' of public-minded journalism."
Three states have advanced constitutionally questionable laws.
The first major intersection of college basketball and legal sports betting seems to have been a completely clean affair.
"I don't understand why money is leaving my pocket and going into the pocket of somebody who is wealthy."
Punishing players for kneeling, or not kneeling, is a First Amendment violation at public universities.
Taxpayers already spend millions to build minor league ballparks. Sen. Richard Blumenthal thinks they should financially support the teams, too.
Six states don’t allow any horse racing bets, but others still make it difficult.
During the draft, they can't even endorse snacks that the league hasn't approved.
It's good to be reminded that, sometimes, greed and venality do not carry the day in the global marketplace
It's a regulation-heavy Monday.
Even the famously stodgy NCAA is changing its views on gambling. For the first time, games will be played in a state where sports betting is legal.
Texas state senators introduced a bill requiring the national anthem at all pro sports events.
Despite some interesting tidbits, a new history of the game falls short.
The National Transportation Safety Board has confirmed that a costly terrain warning system lawmakers wanted to mandate in response to Bryant's death would have been a non-factor in the accident that killed him.
"Bad actors will be identified, and the Tampa Police Department will handle it."
There is no other way to prevent the games from becoming a propaganda showcase for a brutally oppressive regime.
In staring down the virus's blitz, the NFL showed that it is possible to balance caution and continuity.
Plus: A reminder that censorship backfires, Wyoming city considers ban on "performance prostitution," and more...
The Supreme Court has decided to hear a case challenging the legality of NCAA rules restricting compensation for college athletes. Legal issues aside, the policy case for abolishing these rules is strong.
Coastal Carolina University beat BYU on a last-second play Saturday. Four days earlier, neither team expected to be playing the other.
Jim Bouton pulled back the curtain on the MLB and changed the perception of sports forever.
COVID-19 upended the NBA, the NFL, the NHL, and MLB. How the professional sports leagues responded offers a glimpse into our future.
A tale of ballpark upgrades and wasteful government spending
The Reason Roundtable reads Bob Woodward, goes to the Oscars, weighs in on the NFL, and more.
American society is grappling with complex, nuanced issues connected to race and political power. If we have to filter that debate through the binary of choosing to stand or sit for a national anthem, we'll never get much resolved.
The Sixth Circuit says neigh to the horse owners' challenge to the Kentucky Derby's disqualification of their horse.
NBA players' brief boycott in protest of police abuses and racism raises the more general question of when such boycotts are appropriate. The strongest case for them is when the sports events organizers are themselves perpetrators of grave injustice, even more so when the event directly causes such wrongs.
The Milwaukee Bucks refused to come out of the locker room for their scheduled game on Wednesday afternoon against the Orlando Magic. Other teams are planning similar protests.
Playing baseball in the uncanny valley
A new documentary chronicles the defeat of a grassroots protest to halt the Texas Rangers' subsidized stadium deal.
Plus: The U.S. Supreme Court stops an execution at the last minute, a senator argues that you shouldn't get HBO GO for free, and more...
Citing work from Reason, players and coaches from the NFL, NBA, and MLB are urging Congress to end qualified immunity.
How we lost our social spaces and how we found them again
Races reopened without fans this weekend, to mostly good reviews. Sports and entertainment are shifting to serve social-distancing needs.
In West Virginia, advocates have been fighting to pass the Tim Tebow Act since 2011. They're on the verge of scoring a partial legislative victory.
Lawmakers legalized DFS betting. The state’s top justices say that’s not allowed.
Rep. Brad Sherman (D–Calif) has introduced a bill to mandate ground collision detection systems on all helicopters.
Plus: Britain's last day in the European Union, political ads at the Super Bowl, John Delaney drops out of the presidential race, and more...
And they're just as wrong and dangerous this time around.
How the Punjabi diaspora rescued Canada's national sport
Sen. Richard Burr's proposal would heavily deter any student-athlete from getting paid.
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