July 22, 2022
In July 2020 Holly Shick was hired by the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) as its first Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer. After nearly […]
May 25, 2022
Over the past year the job of a college athletics compliance officer has gotten much tougher – some would say it’s now almost impossible to effectively […]
March 21, 2022
On May 14, 2018 the U.S. Supreme Court issued a highly anticipated ruling that struck down the federal ban on state authorization of sports betting. This […]
February 24, 2022
Repeating history, the major professional sports leagues in the U.S. continue to be plagued by scandals involving, among other issues, allegations of sexual and domestic abuse, […]
January 10, 2022
As we find ourselves at the beginning of another year, it is a good time to take stock of the progress sports organizations located around the […]
October 18, 2021
As widely reported in the media recently, 18 former NBA players and a spouse of one of them were criminally charged on October 7 by federal […]
June 7, 2021
In the wake of a months-long investigation by Major League Baseball (MLB) of allegations of sexual harassment against Los Angeles Angels’ pitching coach Mickey Callaway, MLB […]
April 30, 2021
Upon reading Adam Turtletaub’s recent post on The Compliance and Ethics Blog entitled “A New View of Compliance,” I reflected on numerous articles I have written […]
January 11, 2021
While horse racing in the U.S. has historically been regulated by the states, the recent passage by Congress of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (“HISA”) […]
November 11, 2020
Greg McRay, the founder and CEO of Foundation Group – an organization with the stated mission of helping nonprofits thrive – writes that, “One of the […]
September 11, 2020
By Adam Turteltaub This past weekend saw two incidents in professional sports in which the officials were forced to make a tough call and had the […]
August 31, 2020
More than a year ago, federal investigators alleged that California-based Key Worldwide Foundation (KWF), a public charity, used payments from wealthy donors to hide immense sums […]