July 29, 2020
Following years of scandals within several United States Olympic Committee National Governing Bodies (NGBs), the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has hired its first Chief […]
May 6, 2020
No country in the world has the array of sports available to the public as does the United States. Whether one is an actual participant or […]
April 22, 2020
According to a recent report in the New York Times (the “Times”), after years of investigations and indictments, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) handed […]
September 5, 2019
For the past couple decades or so, athletes participating in various sports under the umbrella of the United States Olympic Committee (“USOC”) and its National Governing […]
August 6, 2019
The U.S. sports industry, largely unregulated in contrast to the most regulated industries in the nation, is on the cusp of learning first-hand what happens when […]
June 24, 2019
By David D. Dodge david@sprtsoc.com When the college admissions scandal was originally reported on in early March of this year, many observers believed that this news […]
November 29, 2018
On October 21, 2018 The New Yorker published a piece in The Sunday Archive entitled Scandals by Erin Overbey and Joshua Rothman. In the opening paragraph, […]
November 12, 2018
On the heels of Sports Illustrated’s (SI) explosive story earlier this year on the Dallas Mavericks, the magazine featured another exclusive story on October 8 entitled, […]
June 7, 2018
A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling boosts the prospect of commercial sports gambling across the nation. In a 6-3 decision, the Court struck down a federal […]
April 5, 2018
Nearly five years ago, I recall a conversation I had with Adam Turtletaub, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives & International Programs at SCCE, when he told […]
January 15, 2018
Although the sports industry has been rocked and roiled by one scandal after another, the typical response of a team or a league or a sports […]
December 18, 2017
The New York Times, USA Today, and other news outlets recently reported on the latest scandal in Major League Baseball (MLB), this one involving the Atlanta […]