Symposium Introduction: The New Normal in College Sports: Realigned and Reckoning

Abstract

On Friday, April 5, 2013, Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California convened the Pepperdine Law Review Symposium on The New Normal in College Sports: Realigned and Reckoning. Highlights included a conversation with institutional leaders of major intercollegiate athletic programs; a consideration of the possibility of an antitrust exemption for the NCAA; the impact of conference realignment, digital media, broadcasting, and commercialization; and other emerging hot topics in college sports.

Keywords: Pepperdine Law Review, symposium, college sports, university athletics, intercollegiate athletics, student-athlete, NCAA, institutional control, antitrust, antitrust exemption, commercialism, sports broadcasting, Penn State consent decree, rule of reason