NIL Moves from Compensation to Litigation: NIL has yet to stop surprising the legal world. Within the first weeks of 2026, it has transformed from a mechanism for athlete compensation into a litigation strategy, with universities suing their own quarterbacks over alleged NIL contract breaches tied to transfer decisions. What started with Washington’s Demond Williams and has escalated into Duke’s lawsuit against Darian Mensah creates a new reality: NIL contracts are no longer

The Demond Williams Jr. transfer saga lasted barely 48 hours, yet it managed to encapsulate nearly every unresolved tension in modern college sports: NIL, revenue sharing, transfer rights, contract enforceability, the amateur/employee distinction, antitrust risk, and, most importantly, the human reality of a young athlete trying to make a career-defining decision in a system that still hasn’t decided what it wants him to be.   Earlier this week, Williams announced via Instag

Playing History Tyon Grant-Foster is no stranger to NCAA men’s basketball. Grant-Foster began his collegiate basketball career as a member of the class of 2018, playing two seasons at Indian Hills Community College (a non-NCAA institution) before transferring to Kansas for the 2020-2021 season. Following his stint at Kansas, Grant-Foster transferred to DePaul. During DePaul’s first game of the season, he collapsed. Grant-Foster’s next 16 months were full of medical testing an

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In the midst of the college football Name, Image, and Likeness (“NIL”) era, nothing says “we need some guardrails” quite like the...

I.         Background Although Nico Iamaleava dominated headlines in the past month before transferring to UCLA, it is his younger...

A new bill  introduced by U.S. Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-Wash.) takes aim  at the current college athletics landscape and proposes...