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Fired Tennis Channel CEO Ken Solomon suing on wrongful termination, other grounds
Former Tennis Channel CEO and chair Ken Solomon is suing owner Sinclair Inc., and others, on multiple grounds, including wrongful termination.,Front Office Sports reported details of the suit on Tuesday.,Solomon contends in the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, that he could be owed an a...
Northwestern and ex-coach Pat Fitzgerald settle suit
Northwestern has reached a settlement in former football coach Pat Fitzgerald's wrongful termination lawsuit.,Terms were not disclosed but Fitzgerald's attorneys called it a "satisfactory settlement" on Thursday, per ESPN.,Fitzgerald sued the university for $130 million in October 2023. He was fired...
Report: ESPN punts Shannon Sharpe after lawsuit settlement
ESPN parted ways with Pro Football Hall of Fame member and media personality Shannon Sharpe, according to multiple reports Wednesday.,Sharpe was last with the network in April when a former girlfriend accused Sharpe of sexual assault and filed a $50 million lawsuit. ,The ESPN move comes after the wo...
Commissioner bullish on ACC's future with lawsuits settled
Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner Jim Phillips said Tuesday he's never felt better about his league's future.,"We want to take another step this year," he said at the ACC Kickoff media days in Charlotte. "The league is situated nicely right now.",Phillips' sunny outlook was boosted by the recen...
NASCAR update ensures field spots for 23XI, FRM cars
NASCAR has reportedly changed its rule book, likely in response to the latest ruling in the antitrust lawsuit by 23XI and Front Row Motorsports, ensuring the two teams will not miss any races as open teams.,23XI and Front Row Motorsports lost their charters following their suit against the NASCAR ch...
Former Ohio State QB's lawsuit over lost NIL opportunities dismissed
A lawsuit seeking compensation from the NCAA for thousands of former Ohio State athletes was dismissed.,The class action suit against the NCAA, Ohio State, the Big Ten and others brought by former Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor was not done in a timely manner, according to Chief U.S. District...
Shannon Sharpe settles lawsuit over alleged sexual assault
Shannon Sharpe reached a settlement with a woman who accused him of sexual assault during their relationship, attorney Tony Buzbee announced Friday.,The Pro Football Hall of Famer had stepped away from his television work to address the lawsuit.,Buzbee represented the woman, who used the pseudonym J...
Bills No. 1 pick Maxwell Hairston named in lawsuit
Buffalo Bills cornerback Maxwell Hairston is being sued by a woman who claims he sexually assaulted her in 2021 when he was an early enrollee at Kentucky.,Hairston, 21, was the Bills' first-round pick in the 2025 NFL Draft in April, taken No. 30 overall.,The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Co...
Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. sues to void future earnings deal
San Diego Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. filed a lawsuit on Monday against Big League Advance (BLA), attempting to void a contract he signed as a teenage minor-leaguer that states he owes the company a share of his future earnings.,According to the suit, filed in San Diego County Superior Court, the...
Xavier Lucas' attorney denies alleged meeting with Miami amid Wisconsin lawsuit
The attorney for the player at the center of a first-of-its-kind transfer tampering lawsuit by the University of Wisconsin denied the allegations of a December meeting between the player and representatives of the University of Miami, On3 reported Saturday.,"Wisconsin's allegations that my client, X...
Wisconsin sues Miami over transfer tampering in a legal first
The University of Wisconsin sued the University of Miami on Friday, formally accusing the Florida school of tampering with a football player under a financial contract with the Badgers.,The decision to sue could become a watershed moment in the current era of college athletics. Never before has a un...
Report: Veteran P Wade Miley mentioned in supplying drugs to late Tyler Skaggs
Late Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs had been abusing prescription drugs since at least 2013, with a former teammate serving as one of his sources, The Athletic reported Thursday.,In a lengthy article about a wrongful death civil lawsuit filed against the Angels by the Skaggs family, The Ath...
ACC, Florida State, Clemson to dismiss cases against each other
After nearly two years of infighting, litigation involving Florida State, Clemson and the Atlantic Coast Conference is finally over.,The three sides filed to dismiss cases against one another on Tuesday, ending more than 17 months of legal battles in three different states.,The two schools and the c...
DOJ: California could be sued over participation of trans athletes
California's public school system could face legal issues if it continues to permit transgender athletes to take part in girls' athletic competitions.,The Athletic reported Tuesday that Harmeet K. Dhillon, an assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, said in a ...
Lawsuit accuses Pelicans' Zion Williamson of rape, abuse
New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson was accused of rape in a lawsuit filed this week in Los Angeles, the New York Post reported on Friday.,In the suit filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, the woman -- identified as Jane Doe from Seattle -- alleges Williamson sexually assaulted her twi...
Lawsuit accuses Pelicans' Zion Williamson of rape
New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson was accused of rape in a lawsuit filed this week in Los Angeles, the New York Post reported on Friday.,In the suit filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, the woman -- identified as Jane Doe -- alleges Williamson sexually assaulted her twice in 2020.,T...
Ex-major-leaguer Darin Ruf sues Reds for career-ending injury
Nearly two years after his final game, former major leaguer Darin Ruf filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Cincinnati Reds for an injury at Great American Ball Park that he claims ended his career.,According to the lawsuit filed in Hamilton County (Ohio) Common Pleas, Ruf injured himself on a tar...
Reports: BYU quarterback Jake Retzlaff sued for sexual assault
BYU quarterback Jake Retzlaff was accused of sexual assault in a civil lawsuit filed Wednesday in Salt Lake (Utah) County, according to multiple media reports.,The lawsuit alleges that Retzlaff committed the assault in November 2023 at his home in Provo, Utah. The woman filing the lawsuit -- listed ...
Ex-Bucks owner Marc Lasry subject of sexual misconduct suit
Former Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry was hit by a countersuit seeking $100 million on Thursday from an ex-employee who maintains the billionaire subjected her to years of sexual harassment and a smear campaign.,Gina Strum, an attorney and executive, filed the suit in New York Supreme Court, wi...
Shannon Sharpe steps back from ESPN amid sexual assault lawsuit
Shannon Sharpe announced Thursday he will step away from ESPN as he faces a sexual assault lawsuit, while a report by Front Office Sports uncovered an additional incident in which Sharpe was accused of choking a female colleague at Fox.,Sharpe was the subject of a $50 million lawsuit in Nevada earli...