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Speaker 4: Doing great?
Speaker 1: Ben? How are you living the dream? Just talking ball today.
Speaker 3: It's a great day to talk some college football, but
it's also a great day to talk.
Speaker 1: Some legal and sports drama.
Speaker 3: Let's start off with a topic that we've approached a
few times right now over the last you know, a
couple of weeks and over the last couple of months.
A little update on Michael Jordan's team getting a major
pre trial win and an anti trust case against NASCAR.
Speaker 1: What's going on?
Speaker 4: Yeah, And as we've so, just a quick little recap
on this. I mean, this is a case that Michael
Jordan's got a NASCAR team he and Denny Hamlin have
as another one, and these two teams, NASCAR hands out
these charters and you've got to have a charter if
you're going to compete on the NASCAR circuit, and uh,
there was a kind of a standoff last year and
Jordan's team said and Denny Hamlin said, well, we're not
going to you know, we're not going to sign this charter.
You know, we we don't think it's a good deal
and held out. And so some litigation has ensued, and
essentially this is an anti trust case and and more
or less, the argument is is that NASCAR is monopoly
over stock car racing and the way they hand out
these charters to teams is anti competitive and it and
it hurts the teams in competition. And because NASCAR is
the only game in town, if you want to you
want to race stock cars at the highest level. And
so what's happened now The case is heading to trial.
There's a trial date scheduled in December. But this is
a summary judgment ruling, and and the judge has come
in and basically decided that yeah, NASCAR car does have
the controlling interest over stock car racing. They essentially have
this monopoly. NASCAR tried to say, well, no, we don't, don't.
We don't control all of racing, you know, we don't
control you know, F one or IndyCar racing, and of
course they don't. That's not really what's the issue here.
It's it's stock car racing, which is all NASCAR. I
think everybody knows that. So that's the one issue that
the judge has kind of gotten out of the way.
It's called summary judgment, and what that does is just
narrow some issues for trial, so that now the focus
is just going to be on Okay, we know NASCAR
has got this you know, monopoly, but is are they
engaging and anti competitive practices that harm the teams in NASCAR?
So that'll be the question again we're heading to trial,
So it's something I'm sure we'll talk about in the future.
Speaker 3: Here crazy times in NASCAR, let's discuss an appeal on
the House Settlement arguing that it violates Title nine protocol.
Speaker 1: What's up with this one?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I think everybody probably knows about the House Settlement,
the huge two point six billion dollars settlement that took
a few years to really get get approved, but it
finally it finally did, and this is going to you know,
provide all of this revenue sharing for schools and athletes.
But one of the roadblocks in getting a settlement in
place came from they call them objectors, these student athlete
objectors who who came in and testified, and you know,
a lot of their arguments were that, hey, this violates
Title nine, violates Title nine, and the judge, you know,
issued the judge of the lower court issued some different
different rulings and ultimately under the standard found that it
was that the settlement was fair, reasonable and adequate. So
again it looked like not everybody is happy with it,
but not all student athletes. I mean, but the settlement
got approved and was moving forward. But this appeal comes
from some certain division one like you know, rowing, volleyball,
swim and dive athletes who want to reverse this settlement.
I mean, that's what their appeal would do. If it
was granted, it would it would it would reverse this
whole thing. And I mean, just as a statistic that
they throw out there, I mean, ninety percent of the
money of this two point six billion is really going
to go to football and men's basketball and so Title
nine as people probably understand, but it's you know, it's
a federal law which prohibits sex based discrimination and education
programs that get federal funding. And so again it's been
applied in sports. But one of the questions that really
is going to come up, I think before the Appeals
Court is whether or not Title nine applies to revenue sharing.
I mean, when Title nine was passed, nobody was thinking
about this right, that this would be the current state
of college sports with NIL and that sort of thing.
So case are some new issues for the court to
take up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was interesting like when even when n I
L was essentially approved and it became proper uh and
and the NCAA couldn't limit name, image and likeness earnings,
there was there was a built bar deal at b
YU that that went under a little bit of scrutiny
because you had a donor pay for essentially the cost
of tuition for some strudent student athletes that were walk on.
Speaker 1: And it was a very good, feel good story.
Speaker 3: And prior to this, I had discussed on my show,
I'm like, look like one way to circumvent Title nine
is essentially through n I L.
Speaker 1: And it's we.
Speaker 3: Saw that I think b YU was investigating in fact,
and there was no wrongdoing uh that that that came
about from it. No, you know, castigation, no sort of
punishment that was inflicted upon b Yu for for this
particular situation. But I was like, well, the people that
want to stay true to Title nine, Uh, they may
be a little they may have their feathers ruffled a
little bit and get up in arms about this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they they may. But again, I mean I think
you know, for me, the judge at the that approved
this settlement, she she heard a couple of issues on this. Again,
I mean, it was considered right, this title nine question,
and so I you know, uh, maybe there maybe we'll
see Toddle nine litigation once the money gets distributed, right,
I mean, if if b Yu gives I mean, let's
just one hundred percent of the money, right the men's
sports and totally cuts women out of it. Right, I
think you could, you know, b why you would face
some claims or something like that. Again just as a hypothetical,
so we could see these claims sort of downstream in
the future, you know, where a student athlete wants to
bring their own claim and this may not be the
right time for the appeal, but I'm sure we'll yeah,
well we'll kind of see how it how it develops.
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Speaker 1: Uh and uh.
Speaker 3: Unjustly in an unruly fashion. So let's get back into
the sports court here. James Carville threatens to his own
LSU and pursued legal action AFT against Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is kind of funny if you remember James Carville.
I mean, this guy's been around forever. He might have
been an advisor to Bill Clinton. I mean goes way back, right,
I mean, but a political pundit. He's on all the
cable TV news talking about, you know, politics and things
like that. But the other thing about James Carvill is
he's a big LSU fan and so he's now inserted
himself into this controversy and discussion over Brian Kellery, Brian
Kelly's firing it at LSU. And what ended up happening
is that, of course this the governor in Louisiana. And
just make a note, LSU does not have a president
at their university at the moment, and so I think
that's part of the reason we're seeing the governor step
in because this is a state institution. And so, you know,
Governor Landry holds a press conference and announces that the
then athletic director Woodward, that he wasn't going to take
part in the search for Kelly's replacement, and then also
discussion about the fact that you know, Brian Kelly's huge
buyout was going to be taxpayer dollars and that they
were going to make sure the next coach at hired
wouldn't have such a favorable buyout. Well, obviously that can
affect the recruiting of the next coach and getting getting
the right coach that that LSU wants. So you got
a big fan like James Carville, who's got a soapbox,
and he got in and he said that he's going
to burn all of his LSU ge gear, his diplomas,
his daughter's diplomas, and he says he's he's retained a
law firm and he wants to bring a libel case,
defamation case. Agains Governor Landry the way that he handled
this because because he thinks that that the governor's statements
have harmed the the the athletic program at LSU He says,
this reputational damage that's been done to our university, it's incalculable,
and so he's going to bring this case. It seems
like a long shot, Ben, you know, something for a fan,
like I said, with a with a microphone to to
talk about and kind of beat their chest. But I
thought it was kind of an interesting one.
Speaker 1: Crazy man.
Speaker 3: Well, I think there's probably from a public relations standpoint
that's impactful. I wonder just how impactful the incalculable damage
that has been imposed on the university really is. How
about some Mavericks and Stars arena feud heading to court.
The trial date has been set. Give us some details
on this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is kind of interesting where you've got, you know,
the Mavericks and the Stars. They share an arena, the
American Athletics Center in Dallas, which is is an arena
that's owned is owned by the city, and they've shared
it since two thousand and one under a joint operating agreement.
And then so they set up a company called the
Center Operating Company that you know, so both teams are
you know, kind of joint operators under this agreement to
operate the arena. And so a dispute has arisen between them,
and the MAVs have come in said that the Stars
have breached this contract and they they want to take
over the operation of the Center operating company. So that
would give them all the authority to you know, run
the schedule how they want, right for games and different
events and things like that, and the Stars would really
have to take it back eat. One of the things
they've alleged is that the Stars breached the contract by
moving their headquarters outside of Dallas. Apparently that's you know,
in the contract. So, I mean, it's interesting because you've
got these two teams who essentially, you know, I mean,
they share a house right right, and they have for
g's almost twenty five years, and now that's kind of
falling apart. I mean, we've you know, you you see
these sorts of shared arrangements all over the place. I mean,
right here in town, we've got the Jazz and the
Mammoths sharing the Delta Center. But the difference there is
we've got joint ownership shared ownership, right, I mean, you've
got Ryan Smith Group owning both teams, and so that's
usually a better situation for sharing the same arena because
they've got joint you know, shared ownership, but the Mouths
and Stars don't have that, so they're they're at odds.
Speaker 3: At odds, you know, these sports court you know situations.
Speaker 1: I mean one's odds. It seems final thing your update.
Speaker 3: Former NBA player Damon Jones has been arraigned and plead's
not guilty into gambling probes. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And if you remember Damon Jones, he's he's one of
the guys that's named in both cases. And so the
two cases that we have, of course, is we have
the you know, the sports betting case, and that's the
one with Terry Rozier and and you know, giving inside
information to affect sports betting. The other case is the
rigged high stakes poker games. That's the one, you know,
the case with Chauncey Billups that the mafia was backing
up and all of that. But Damon Jones, former NBA player,
he's he's indicted in both cases, the defendant in both cases.
And so he was arigned pled not guilty. And I
don't think that's probably too big of a surprise. But
what jumped out to me, I mean, he's posted upon
two hundred thousand dollars using his parents' home, you know,
to secure that. He's also been appointed basically a federal
public defender to represent him. So and I hadn't seen,
you know, a report on this, whether his assets had
been frozen or whether we should just readb between the
lines that he didn't make a lot of money playing
poker and rigging sports betting. So there you go. Something again.
We'll be following closely.
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