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The sports‐betting world underwent significant transformation just over seven years ago when the U.S. Supreme Court decided ( Murphy v. NCAA , 584 U.S. 453 (2018)) to strike down as unconstitutional the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992. A total of 39 states, in addition to Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, now allow some form of legalized online or in‐person sports betting, with Missouri becoming the most recent as of Dec. 1, 2025 ( see www.legalsportsreport.com/sports-betting-states/ ). In states with legalized betting, anyone meeting the age requirement (21 in most of the states) can place bets on professional and college games with the caveat that there are restrictions regarding sharing insider information or betting on games within the conference that a student‐athlete's school participates. In addition, many state laws include language that restricts bets on game outcomes, bets on in‐state teams, and proposition bets (frequently referred to as “prop bets,” which are bets placed on specific events or individual performances within a game that aren’t directly tied to the final score or outcome of who wins or loses).
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Grab your popcorn — we have a front row seat to an area of law that's dramatically changing right before our eyes, so much so that it seems as if we’re building the airplane as we’re flying it. In just a few years, we’ve seen reforms to amateurism that changed the rules and impacted every college student‐athlete and program in the nation.
CASE NAME: Boyages v. The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College , No. 2:24‐cv‐538 (D. Vt. 11/04/25).
Those of us who grew up in the 1960s celebrated the birthdays of both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. In elementary school, we cut out silhouettes of both presidents using scissors and black construction paper. The heads lined the hallways. As I recall, we got off school on Feb. 12 and 22. Washington's birthday has been a federal holiday since Feb. 22 and was proclaimed a national holiday for all in 1879.
CASE NAME: Tolnai v. Cornell, et al ., No. 3:24‐cv‐242 (D. N.D. 08/28/25).
I was one of the first administrators to realize the hazards of social media, publishing in The Chronicle of Higher Education a January 2006 article titled “Facing the Facebook” and warning: “Information technology in the classroom was supposed to bridge digital divides and enhance student research. Increasingly, however, our networks are being used to entertain members of ‘the Facebook Generation’ who text‐message during class, talk on their cellphones during labs, and listen to iPods rather than guest speakers in the wireless lecture hall.”
A male student on the University of Nebraska men's gymnastics team and a female student on the univer sity's women's tennis team met at a joint team event and began casually dating. During the summer, while the gymnast was away from campus, they remained in frequent contact. When the next semester began, their relationship became sexual, although it wasn’t exclusive.