Major league baseball has dealt with cheating, most recently with steroid use and pitch stealing using video cameras. Football had deflate-gate when Tom Brady used footballs that were not properly inflated. Horse racing has seen its most famous trainer penalized for...
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Football’s TBI issue back in the news
Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa recently caught the attention of the sports and medical world. On Thursday, September 29, he dropped back to pass in a game against the Bengals. The Bengals 340-pound defensive tackle Josh Tupou broke through the line, chased...
Does the NBA’s punishment of Sarver go far enough?
On Tuesday, September 13, Robert Sarver was fined $10 million and banned from the NBA for one year after the league released the findings of a 10-month independent investigation that interviewed 300 current and former employees. As the owner for the last 17 years of...
Pro tennis loses another legend
Roger Federer announced on September 15 that the Laver Cup in London that will take place later in the week would be his final competitive tennis tournament. With a couple of knee surgeries in recent years, Federer surprised few of his millions of fans with his...
Serena changed the game
Serena Williams went down swinging in a three-hour match in the third round of the US Open. While the door on her tennis career is not completely shut, many expect her recent US Open run to be her last appearance as a competitor at a major tennis tournament. The...
What does the Big 10’s expansion mean for college football?
The Big 10 is one of the country’s oldest football college conferences, featuring such D-1 powerhouses as Ohio State and Michigan. The SEC is still the newish upstart super-conference with many national champions in recent years, and it takes up the most space in the...
U.S. Track & Field has a popularity problem
We recently wrote about the U.S.A. Track & Field (USATF) dominated the first world championships held on U.S. soil in Eugene, Oregon. The team won 33 medals in its best-ever performance, causing a lot of Olympic optimism for the team in Paris 2024 and Los Angeles...
MLB pays $185 million to settle class action over minor league wages
To paraphrase the movie Bull Durham, minor league baseball is a great job, enabling grown men to show up to the ballpark each day and play ball rather than selling appliances. Kevin Costner’s character didn’t quit in the opening scene and ended his season with the...
U.S. throws a party at the world track and field championships
Known as Track Town USA, Eugene, Oregon, is a hotbed for track and field. The town and University of Oregon's Hayward Field were the sites July 15-24 for the world track and field championships (officially called the World Athletics Championships Oregon 22) in the...
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority is a game changer: What the horseracing industry needs to know now
I. INTRODUCTION The establishment of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (“HISA”) marked a major change in the regulation of safety and anti-doping in the horseracing industry. HISA recently hired its Chief Executive Officer (Lisa Lazarus, who has extensive...
