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You Can’t Give Friday Night Back Later

Sep 18, 2026

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4 min read

You Can’t Give Friday Night Back Later

An Alabama judge blocked the AHSAA from keeping Robertsdale’s football coach off the sideline hours before kickoff. The bigger issue is where athletic-association authority ends and judicial intervention begins.

Jesse Wilde
Jesse Wilde

Professional Sports

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Brian Flores Found a New Piece of NFL Hiring Evidence. The Fight Now Is Over Whether the Public Gets to See It.

Sep 18, 2026

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5 min read

Brian Flores Found a New Piece of NFL Hiring Evidence. The Fight Now Is Over Whether the Public Gets to See It.

A one-page document created by Korn Ferry during a Raiders coaching search has become part of Brian Flores’s discrimination litigation. Nobody outside the case knows what it says. That is precisely why the fight over whether it stays sealed matters.

Jesse Wilde
Jesse Wilde

College Sports & NIL

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Every NCAA Eligibility Rule Needs a Line. The Lawsuits Keep Coming From the Other Side of It.

Sep 18, 2026

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11 min read

Every NCAA Eligibility Rule Needs a Line. The Lawsuits Keep Coming From the Other Side of It.

Presbyterian linebacker Malek Horlback is asking a South Carolina court for a fifth season under the NCAA’s new age-based eligibility model. His lawsuit attacks not the new rule itself, but the line the NCAA drew while transitioning to it.

Jesse Wilde
Jesse Wilde

Professional Sports

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The NFL Can Punish Josh Jacobs. Getting the Evidence Is Another Matter.

Sep 18, 2026

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6 min read

The NFL Can Punish Josh Jacobs. Getting the Evidence Is Another Matter.

The criminal case is largely resolved. The NFL investigation is not—and a fight over sealed surveillance footage is exposing the difference between a league’s power to discipline a player and its power to obtain evidence.

Jesse Wilde
Jesse Wilde
Bruce Springsteen’s Pontiac Case Wasn’t Really About an Oral Contract. It Was About Proof.

Sep 18, 2026

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9 min read

Bruce Springsteen’s Pontiac Case Wasn’t Really About an Oral Contract. It Was About Proof.

A collector’s estate said he was promised more money if his Pontiac appeared on a Springsteen album. The claim failed not simply because nothing was signed, but because the alleged promise could not be proved with admissible evidence—and the legal theories did not match the recovery the estate wanted.

Jesse Wilde
Jesse Wilde
UNC Found Misconduct Inside Bill Belichick’s Program. Then It Drew a Line Around It.

Sep 18, 2026

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5 min read

UNC Found Misconduct Inside Bill Belichick’s Program. Then It Drew a Line Around It.

Steve Belichick is resigning, but North Carolina says the conduct it found was “isolated,” not systemic—and has now closed the investigation. In modern college football, that distinction is about more than reputation. It is also about governance, supervision and millions of dollars in employment contracts.

Jesse Wilde
Jesse Wilde
They Tried to Go Back to College. Now the NFL Won’t Let Them Come Back.

Sep 18, 2026

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5 min read

They Tried to Go Back to College. Now the NFL Won’t Let Them Come Back.

Dae’Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris won temporary court protection for a return to college, never made LSU’s roster, and now cannot return to the NFL for the 2026 season. Their predicament exposes a new problem: nobody controls the border between college and professional sports by themselves.

Jesse Wilde
Jesse Wilde

Business & Deals

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The Trail Blazers Cannot Just Leave Portland. Adam Silver Made That Clear.

Sep 16, 2026

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4 min read

The Trail Blazers Cannot Just Leave Portland. Adam Silver Made That Clear.

The NBA commissioner’s intervention does not resolve Portland’s arena fight. But it matters because relocation is not Tom Dundon’s decision alone—and the league just publicly signaled where it stands.

Jesse Wilde
Jesse Wilde

College Sports & NIL

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The NCAA Eligibility Fight Is Becoming a Contract Fight

Sep 16, 2026

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5 min read

The NCAA Eligibility Fight Is Becoming a Contract Fight

Two Utah Tech volleyball players want a fifth season. The important part is not another eligibility lawsuit—it is the growing effort to turn the NCAA’s own rulebook into an enforceable promise.

Jesse Wilde
Jesse Wilde
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