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  • Bloomberg Law: NCAA Settlement Bolsters Bids to Treat Athletes as Employees

    ED Jason Stahl and VP Justin Falcinelli quoted:

  • Gramlich & Mac Lain

    Vice President Justin Falcinelli Interviewed

  • Walk- On Redshirts

    Vice President Justin Falcinelli Interviewed

  • Why this is a massive month for the future of college sports

    Executive Director Jason Stahl quoted

  • A House v. NCAA settlement might be coming, but employment status remains a looming battle

    Executive Director Jason Stahl quoted

  • Why a College Athletes’ Rights Group Is Setting Employee Status Aside

    Execuitve Director Jason Stahl quoted

  • UNION-FREE NCAA COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IDEA GAINS BACKERS

    Executive Director Jason Stahl quoted

  • CFBPA Press Release

    May 6, 2024 press release regarding the need for new legislation for college athlete collective bargaining.

  • CPI Fallout| Bloomberg Markets: The Close 03/12/2024

    Executive Director Jason Stahl interviewed on Bloomberg TV

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    The Future of College Sports Is Unionized

    The Dartmouth basketball team just voted to join SEIU Local 560, a big step toward ending the exploitation of college athletes.

    Executive Director Jason Stahl quoted

  • All Penn State FN football helmet

    Before Dartmouth's Union Vote, Penn State Football Started a Conversation

    Comparison between CFBPA, Penn State efforts, an Dartmouth

  • SFGATE logo

    Thousands of college athletes sell their face to Bay Area’s EA for $600 and a video game

    The paltry sum will give Electronic Arts the right to use players’ name, image and likeness for its upcoming college football video game

    Executive Director Jason Stahl quoted

  • Behind the inevitability of the Big Ten and SEC gaining access, revenue, power in College Football Playoff

    Executive Director Jason Stahl quoted

  • CFBPA on EA offer: College football players “are being treated like children”

    CFBPA position on new EA Sports video game

  • Dawn of new age for college athletics is on the horizon with NCAA appearing powerless to stop it

    The NCAA is facing battles on multiple fronts, and few -- if any -- look to go the association's way

    Executive Director Jason Stahl interviewed

  • Making the Case for CFBPA Representation

    Three Reasons Why College Football Players Should Choose Us

    From Executive Director Jason Stahl’s newsletter

  • Dartmouth Men’s Basketball Employment Ruling: Everything You Need to Know

    Executive Director Jason Stahl interviewed

  • Dartmouth Players Are Employees Who Can Unionize, U.S. Official Says

    A regional director for the National Labor Relations Board cleared the way for the collegiate men’s basketball team to hold a vote.

    Executive Director Jason Stahl interviewed

  • What NLRB decision on Dartmouth basketball means for college sports

    Executive Director Jason Stahl interviewed

  • As Jim Harbaugh leaves college football, will other coaches take up his cause?

    Executive Director Jason Stahl interviewed

  • Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh says college athletes should unionize. What would that look like?

    Executive Director Jason Stahl interviewed

  • Front Office Sports

    Why Jim Harbaugh’s Comments About Athlete Pay Unionization During the CFP Were Such a Big Deal

    Executive Director Jason Stahl interviewed

  • PLAY COLLEGE FOOTBALL, THEN GO TO COLLEGE

    Executive Director Jason Stahl interviews with Sportico’s Michael McCann about possibilities for the future of college athletics

  • Breaking Points Jason Stahl Kassidy Woods

    College Athletes May Be Next To UNIONIZE

    Executive Director Jason Stahl and Leadership Committee member Kassidy Woods interview for Breaking Points podcast

  • President Biden Meets With Former NCAA Football Players Over College Athlete Rights

    News report on Leadership Committee member Jordan Meachum’s appearance at White House Roundtable

  • The Athletic: White House visit marks important day in college athletics, if the NCAA listens

    News report on Leadership Committee member Jordan Meachum’s appearance at White House Roundtable

  • The legal challenges that could overhaul college sports

    News report on Leadership Committee member Jordan Meachum’s appearance at White House Roundtable

  • President Biden part of discussion on creating 'better environment' for college athletes

    News report on Leadership Committee member Jordan Meachum’s appearance at White House Roundtable

  • President Biden talks NIL, revenue sharing with college football stakeholders

    News report on Leadership Committee member Jordan Meachum’s appearance at White House Roundtable

  • Jordan Meachum at the White House

    FOS: NCAA Football Players’ Rights Have Caught The Attention of President Biden

    News report on Leadership Committee member Jordan Meachum’s appearance at White House Roundtable

  • The real news network

    College Football is Dangerous: Unions Can Fix It

    Edge of Sports Podcaster Dave Zirin interviews Executive Director Jason Stahl

  • Sportico

    IT’S TIME FOR ‘ATHLETE ADVOCATE’ TO BE RESTORED TO ITS TRUE MEANING

    Vice President Maddie Salamone’s op-ed

  • House Committee Small business

    Full Committee Hearing: “Athletes and Innovators: Analyzing NIL’s Impact on Entrepreneurial Collegiate Athletes”

    Vice President Maddie Salamone in attendace

  • With new model ahead, NIL hearing highlights why NCAA is 'so inept'

    Executive Director Jason Stahl quoted

  • Madeline Salamone on the NCAA's Name, Image, and Likeness Policy Changes

    Attorney and College Football Players Association Board of Directors Vice President Madeline Salamone discussed the impact the National Collegiate Athletics Association’s (NCAA) name, image, and likeness (NIL) policy changes on student athletes.

  • Why 9th NIL hearing showed how far away Congress is from NCAA's federal solution

    Reporting on Vice President Maddie Salamone in her congressional appearance

  • Kassidy Woods

    On The Plains with Kassidy Woods: ‘Believing in my faith’

    Leadership Committee Member Kassidy Woods profiled

  • NIL and the reckoning of college athletics

    Amid claims from the NCAA that the sky is falling, Deadspin spoke to agents, players, and officials to dissect the truth about playing student-athletes

    Executive Director Jason Stahl quoted

  • Yahoo SPorts

    Do stars like Caleb Williams support return of college football video game? Well, that depends ...

    Executive Director Jason Stahl quoted

  • University Press

    FAU Football: Upcoming Electronic Arts Sports video game and its controversy

    Some college players believe that the game may impact their NIL worth

    Vice President Justin Falcinelli quoted

  • FOS: How A Union Could Have Protected Northwestern Football Players

    Executive Director Jason Stahl quoted

  • The Open Secrets of College Football

    How the CFBPA Can Make a Difference

    Executive Director Jason Stahl’s Newsletter

  • Jason Stahl, Justin Falcinelli, Troy Redick, Edd Garret, Richard Southall

    On3: Jason Stahl and his big plans for the College Football Players Association

    Executive Director Jason Stahl quoted

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    On3: As college football players inch toward employee status, what could they stand to gain from getting organized?

    Executive Director Jason Stahl quoted

  • NIL Hour: EA v. Brandr; SDSU Exits MWC?; NYS NIL Bill SIgned

    Conduct Detrimental THE Sports Law Podcast

    VP Maddie Salamone interviewed

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    Action: EA College Football Video Game in Limbo Once Again After 10-Year Hiatus

    Executive director Jason Stahl quoted

  • ON3: College Football Players Association organizing boycott of 2024 EA Sports video game

    Justin Falcinelli helped build one of the top college football programs of the 2010s. Clemson‘s starting center for two years left with two national titles.

    But securing the program’s success had him wanting a piece of the revenue he generated. Meanwhile, head coach Dabo Swinney benefited – he signed a $115 million contract over 10 seasons in 2022.

  • NCAA Athlete Advisory Committees Send Bizarre Letters to Congress

    Vice President Justin Falcinelli quoted

  • USA Today: CFB Players Association urges boycott over EA Sports College Football video game

    College football players in the new EA Sports College Football video game? Not so fast my friend.

    Fans of the popular video game franchise set to return next year were excited to learn EA Sports contracted OneTeam Partners to incorporate the names, images and likenesses into the game. So when the game is relaunched, all eligible FBS players can opt in to have their likenesses incorporated and players will be compensated for opting in, rather than random, generic players making up the teams.

  • Front Office Sports CFBPA

    EA College Football And The Problem With Group Licensing In College Athletics

    Executive Director Jason Stahl quoted

  • Jason Stahl Newsletter Control remote cfbpa

    Jason Stahl's Newsletter: Three Reasons Why the EA Sports Video Game Deal is Bad for College Football Players

    Every Past, Present and Future College Football Player Should Boycott the Deal

  • Innovation, Data, and Commerce Subcommittee Hearing: “Taking the Buzzer Beater to the Bank: Protecting College Athletes’ NIL Dealmaking Rights”

    March 29, 2023

    Jason Stahl was one of six witnesses in Congress’ NIL hearing

  • ESPN: Congressional hearing targets 'NIL chaos' in college sports

    A congressional hearing Wednesday targeting "NIL chaos" in college sports drifted into the ramifications of athletes being deemed employees of their schools and mostly highlighted those who support congressional intervention to protect the collegiate model.

  • Jason Stahl Congress NIL hearing

    On3: Congress NIL witness: Some lawmakers needed to do ‘more homework on the basic subjects we were talking about’

    The best characterization of Wednesday’s Congressional hearing allegedly centered on NIL is this: The discourse ran a mile wide but just an inch deep.

  • Conduct Detrimental The Sports Law Podcast

    Conduct Detrimental THE Sports Law Podcast

    NIL Hour: NCAA Congressional Testimony w/ Witness Jason Stahl; Caitlin Clark - Angel Reese Debate; AI v. NIL; Potential TikTok Ban

  • Amateur sports at higher education American institutions are dead

    The NCAA wants protection from the winds of change from NIL, and it sounds like it is finding champions

  • FN: For the Next Big Ten Commissioner, a Lesson From Penn State

    Kevin Warren helped curb potential labor action at Penn State. But the issue isn't going away.

  • The Clemson Dubcast Podcast

    The Clemson Dubcast with Larry Williams: Jusin Falcinelli

    Leadership Committee member Justin Falcinelli podcast appearance

  • NPR Big 10 conference

    NPR Report: The Big 10 conference signed a historic deal, but the athletes aren't getting paid

    Executive Director Jason Stahl and Leadership Committee member Jordan Meachum quoted.

  • [NewsNation] Big Ten lands $7 billion, NFL-style TV contracts

    Executive Director Jason Stahl comments on the new Big Ten media rights dea.

  • New college players association takes on Goliath football powers

    LC member Troy Reddick highlighted

    by Christian Knox

  • Jason Stahl is organizing a players’ association to tackle college football’s problems

    by Christian Knox

  • Former Clemson center Justin Falcinelli (50) protects quarterback Trevor Lawrence (16) in a Nov. 24, 2018, victory over South Carolina. Falcinelli played on the Tigers’ 2016 and 2018 national championship teams and is a Leadership Committee member of

    Sapakoff: Falcinelli, from blocking at Clemson to tackling players’ association goals

    LC member Jultin Falcinelli highlighted

  • How a Tweet Revealed the Difficulties of the College Athlete Unionization Push

    Sports Illustrated covers CFBPA

    By: Richard Johnson

  • Conduct Detrimental: THE Sports Law Intersection

    Podcast with Roxy and Jason

  • Seminoles Sideline 365

    Podcast with LC member Alonzo Craighton

  • CFBPA Logo Ed Garrett

    365 Sports

    Podcast with LC member Ed Garrett

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    ONE37PM: Can The College Football Players Association Change the NCAA Forever?

    Interview with LC member Jordan Meachum

  • Front Office Sports: The Rise and Controversy of the Big Ten Athletes’ Rights Movement

    By: Amanda Christovich

  • Jason Stahl's Newsletter: Star Players and the Formation of a Players Association

    Talking Openly About a Possible Problem

  • CBS Sports: College football players group presentation at Penn State included unionization option, document shows

    The CFBA believes long-term success for players’ rights may need to include ‘official unionization’

    By: Dennis Dodd

  • More Perfect Union: The College Football Players Association is demanding that the Big Ten share the profits from its new $1.2 billion TV deal.

    Big Ten football players frequently get hurt, don't have adequate health care, and fall into debt from lifelong injuries.

  • ON3 NIL: Kevin Warren, Big Ten disinvite College Football Players Association to media days

    By: Pete Nakos

  • CBS Sports: College football players group speaks with Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren, demands include share of revenue

    Penn State QB Sean Clifford is part of a players group advocating for more benefits from the conference

    By: Dennis Dodd

  • Darts And Letters Podcast

    Darts & Letters Podcast

    Listen to Alumni Member Ed Garrett discuss his time playing college football. You can also stream the podcast wherever you listen to them.

  • Between the Lines: A Podcast About Sports and the Law

    Podcast with Executive Director Jason Stahl; CFBPA Advisory Board members Michael Hsu and Corey Staniscia; and Leadership Committee alumni member Justin Falcinelli

  • Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

    Krystal and Saagar talk with the Executive Director Jason Stahl of the College Football Players Association to discuss the reasons why college football players in particular are in desperate need of representation

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    IN THESE TIMES: A New Group to Organize College Football Players Just Launched. Incredible Timing.

    By: Hamilton Nolan

    Executive Director Jason Stahl is interviewed.

  • Indiana Sports Beat Radio

    Watch Jason Stahl on Student-Athlete Employment & the College Football Players Association

  • College athletes are unpaid. What if injury ruins their chance of turning pro?

    The Guardian: As professional sports grew ever more lucrative, the risk of losing out on a fortune became a threat to the credibility of the NCAA amateur ethos

    Executive Director Jason Stahl quoted in this article.

  • ESPN: New players' association aims to represent college football players amid changing NCAA landscape

    Dan Murphy ESPN Staff Writer

    A new players' association launched Tuesday with a goal to organize and represent college football players as they push for more rights.

  • CFBPA logo with football field background

    CFBPA Launch Press Release

    On July 27, 2021 the College Football Players Association (CFBPA) released its new website www.cfbpa.org. Executive Director and founder Jason Stahl: “In the summer of 2020, college football players called for the creation of a CFBPA while returning to play in the midst of a pandemic.