
Niche Sports Should Leave Colleges
The May 2024 settlement in House v. NCAA was the most recent significant step towards an employee model for collegiate athletes. Reactions to the settlement varied widely across sports and…
The May 2024 settlement in House v. NCAA was the most recent significant step towards an employee model for collegiate athletes. Reactions to the settlement varied widely across sports and…
The San José State University (SJSU) women’s volleyball team made international news this season, with coverage by the BBC, the Telegraph, Quillette, the New York Times, CNN, and ESPN. The…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: George Leef georgeleef@jamesgmartin.center 919-828-1400 Raleigh, NC, September 3, 2024 — Today, the James G. Martin Center announces its support for an amicus curiae brief filed by…
Now that sports betting is legal in the Bible Belt state of North Carolina, online gamblers have filled the collection plate with over $1.8 billion in total wagers and about…
When the men’s basketball team at Dartmouth voted to unionize earlier this year, the college’s president vowed to take the issue all the way to the Supreme Court. Her decision…
Since transgender swimmer Lia Thomas won a Division I national championship in women’s swimming in 2022, policies surrounding the participation of transgender athletes in women’s sports have been sources of…
Not that long ago, college sports were relatively predictable. Like the U.S. passenger airlines, trucking fleets, and freight railroads regulated by government entities before President Jimmy Carter’s deregulation efforts in…
I first encountered DEI in exercise science in 2017. That year, the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) published a position paper titled “Achieving equity in physical activity participation: ACSM…
The college sports world is bracing for impact, as several teams may be looking to switch conferences in the coming seasons. A FanNation report on possible departures from the Atlantic…
Each January, the staff of the Martin Center share our higher-ed-reform dreams for the coming year. Will all of our wishes come true? Probably not. Nevertheless, we offer them here…