Despite its decade-long presence as a highly demanding competition, the NCAA’s complex and bureaucratic process for recognizing emerging sports has long hindered competitive dance’s bid for official status...

When Judge Claudia Wilken approved the $2.8 billion House v. NCAA settlement in June 2025, she formally ushered in a new reality: universities can now pay athletes directly, capped initially at $20.5 million per school in year one...

On October 24, 2025, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) announced the arrest of more than thirty individuals connected to an Italian mafia-linked underground poker scheme...

On August 8, 2023, ESPN and PENN Entertainment (“PENN”) announced a 10-year, $2 billion exclusive “deep integration” partnership. [2] ...