THE SILENT STRUGGLE: Experts Speak on College Athletes’ Mental Health
The Drake Group brings together a blue-ribbon slate of mental health experts who are practicing clinicians currently working in the nation’s top college athletics programs. Topics addressed by the panel include how athletes are harmed by others, how athletes are harmed by the system, challenges faced by athletes of color coping with predominantly white institutions and the […]
State-by-State Legislation on College Athlete Name/Image/Likeness – A Drake Database
The Drake Group is maintaining a state-by-state database tracking all state legislative actions recognizing the rights of college athletes to monetize their own names, images, and likenesses (NILs) via employment and endorsements outside their collegiate institutions. Questions should be directed to Drake board member Julie Sommer at jsommer@jsommerlaw.com. SEE QUICK EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND FULL DATABASE […]
The Drake Group Contends the NCAA Cannot Survive Given What SCOTUS Portends and Proposes Blueprint for Major Educational Sport Correction
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A Continuing Disgrace: Intercollegiate Athletics Race Issues
The Drake Group believes that the commercialization of intercollegiate athletic programs has not only challenged the academic integrity of higher education but resulted in a predominantly White community of higher education administrators, athletic department administrators, coaches, and staff turning a blind eye to the racism underlying the economic, education and other forms of exploitation harming […]
The Drake Group Calls for Science-Based and Inclusive Women’s Sports Policies for Transgender Girls and Women – Applauds the Stances of the NCAA and WSPWG
New Haven, CONN: The Drake Group strongly opposes the rash of state legislative efforts to fullyexclude transgender girls and women from school and college women’s sports programs. The Group also opposes the unconditional inclusion of transgender girls and women who do not choose to mitigate their post- pubescent male sex-linked advantages. Amid the current political […]
The NCAA Is Playing The Ball In The Wrong Court
The Drake Group President-Elect Andrew Zimbalist and Drake Board of Directors member Julie Sommer wield a mighty pen with a timely critique of the NCAA’s efforts in the courts to protect its profits – revenues derived from the labor of talented, hard-working—and disproportionately Black—college athletes, especially those playing in the women’s and men’s Final Four […]