Featuring Gabe Feldman and Dr. Greg Stewart, co-founders and co-directors of the Tulane University Center for Sport.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the college experience will be very different this fall. Many activities are being limited due to the restrictions on large groups. But what does this mean for college sports? What will the student-athletes, coaching staff, and fan experience be this year in the world of collegiate sports?

Panelists:

Jay Cicero, President/CEO, Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation

 In 1955, when racial segregation defined the South, two teams of 12-year-old boys stepped onto a baseball field in a non-violent act of cultural defiance that would change the course of history. Sixty-years later, the players of the first racially integrated little league baseball game in the South reflect on this revolutionary event in the documentary, building a bridge to healing the social divide that still exists in our country today.

The arena of youth sports in ever changing. Currently, sports specialization is contributing to an increase in exposure to acute and overuse injuries in youth athletes. A major objective facing sports health providers is to develop a more standardized approach to assessing acute injuries that occur during play, as well as the prevention and treatment of overuse injuries in specialized athletes.  The discussions of how to address both types of injuries, acute and overuse will be a benefit in the way of patient care and intervention of the injuries. 

Each year, the Sports Lawyers Association hosts a conference dedicated to the sports law industry. Tulane students may attend the conference for free. In addition to learning more about the complex legal issues impacting professional and amateur athletics and networking with industry professionals, sports law students have the opportunity to meet and interact with Tulane law alums in the sports law field at the annual Tulane Sports Law Alumni Reception held in the first evening of the SLA conference. The conference also offers CLE credits for alumni.

Similar to our highly successful Football Negotiation and Baseball Arbitration Competitions, this competition will be a simulated Free Agency negotiation of a real player and will use current CBA information. 

Competitors will submit a written component before the negotiations and will be judged by prominent members of sports law and the NBA industry.

The Professional Football Negotiation Competition, run by the Tulane Sports Law Society, is a simulated contract negotiation using real life scenarios and actual upcoming NFL free agents.  The competition will provide participants with the opportunity to sharpen their negotiation skills as well as their knowledge of actual NFL contracts.  In order to simulate an actual negotiation, the participants will receive a set of confidential objectives that serve as guidelines for the negotiation.  Participants will either represent the fo

Tulane’s Moot Court Board, with the help of the Sports Law Society and the Sports Lawyers Journal staff, hosts the annual Mardi Gras National Moot Court Competition, the only annual moot court competition in the country that focuses on contemporary legal problems confronting the sports industry.

WHAT IS THE NFL PCF HEALTHY BODY & MIND SCREENING PROGRAM?

The Tulane International Baseball Arbitration Competition, run by the Tulane Sports Law Society, is a simulated salary arbitration competition modeled closely on the procedures used by Major League Baseball (MLB). Like most law school moot court competitions, TIBAC’s main goal is to provide participants with the opportunity to sharpen their oral and written advocacy skills. However, the competition is unique in that it allows law students to sharpen these skills within the specialized context of MLB's salary arbitration proceedings.

WHAT IS THE NFL PCF HEALTHY BODY & MIND SCREENING PROGRAM?