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OCTOBER/NOVEMBER, 2025
November 26, 2025 - Big Stone Gap, VA - Missing Virginia High School Football Coach Is Wanted on Child Porn Charges, Police Say, CBS News.
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November 24, 2025 - Columbus, OH - OHSAA Member Schools Pass NIL Referendum Proposal, OHSAA Press Release. The OHSAA referendum means that Jamier Brown, an OHSAA football player, has effectively won his lawsuit against the OHSAA. Ohio becomes the 45th State to allow high school NIL. The OHSAA referendum has some restrictions to protect OHSAA recruiting and amateurism rules, and there will come a day where those restrictions will become the focus of an antitrust suit in Ohio. At present, though, Ohio has solved its immediate legal problem. Future legal battles will wait for another day/.
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November 22, 2025 - Atlanta, GA - Sidelines Clear As Massive Fight Breaks Out During Metro Atlanta High School Football Game, WSB TV.
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November 18, 2025 - Is gambling creeping into high school sports? See Sports Betting Is Changing The Landscape For High School Sports, reported by Bryon Scott, ysn.com.
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November 15, 2025 - Should state legislatures pass laws to protect high school athletes from bad NIL business deals and bad actors who can prey upon minors with money? See The Overlooked Revolution In NIL Rights: High School Sports, reported by Adam Epstein, Nathaniel Grow, and Kathryn Kisska-Schulze, Sportico.com
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November 14, 2025 - St. Louis, MO - "It's Heartbreaking:" St. Mary's District Championship Title Revoked After Fight During Soccer Match, reported by Robert Townsend, KSDK TV.
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November 6, 2025 - Simi Valley, CA - Southern California High School Basketball Coach Arrested For Sexual Abuse of 2 Girls, Police Say, reported by Cameron Kiszla, KTLA-TV 5.
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November 5, 2025 - Denver, CO - A 50/50 Raffle At Pro Sports Games Was Meant to Help Kid. Thousands of Dollars Vanished. Reported by Kenny Jacoby, USA Today.
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November 1, 2025 - Paulsboro, New Jersey - Ugly Brawl After Late Hit Forces Officials To End Playoff Game In Fourth Quarter, reported by Matt Consentino, nj.com.
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October 31, 2025 - Gilchrist County, FL - Bell Football Senior Daniel Byers Arrested and Accused of Striking Opposing Player's Face With Helmet, reported by Noah Ram, Gainesville Sun, November 5, 2025.
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October 31, 2025 - NFL Touts Guardian Caps Despite New Study Showing Benefits Are Uncertain, reported by Josh Peters, USA Today.
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October 31, 2025 - Antioch, CA - Antioch High School Football Team Forfeits Game Due to Code of Conduct Violations, reported by Brendan Weber and Jodi Hernandez, NBC News Bay Area.
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October 27, 2025 - Irvine, CA - Division II School Ordered To Reinstate Women's Sports It Cut, reported by Daniel Libit, Sportico.com
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October 26, 2025 - Orangeburg County, SC - NCAA Ordered To Pay 18M To Former South Carolina State Player In Concussion Lawsuit, CBS News.
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October 25, 2025 - Lexington, KY - Docs Reveal Details On Arrest of EKU Football Player, His Father After Alleged Assault on Coach, Lex-18 TV.
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October 21, 2025 - Columbus, OH - OHSAA Executive Director Announces Emergency Referendum Vote on NIL For High School Athletes, reported by Brad Bournival, Akron Beacon Journal. One may wonder just what in the world is the emergency. Well, as you can probably guess, it's a lawsuit. Jamier Brown, a very prominent football player, won a 45-day TRO, upholding his NIL rights. If the OHSAA member schools vote to allow NIL, the OHSAA won't fight the injunction. If the schools vote against NIL, then the court fight is on. And, if you're wondering just how many states allow NIL at the high school level, well, pretty much all of them. Click here for a list of the 45 states that allow high school NIL as of October, 2025.
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October 21, 2025 - San Marcos, CA - Mission Hills Football Coach Resigns Amid District Investigation, reported by Noah Perkins, The Coast News Group (Encinitas, CA). The resignation comes in the wake of an alleged locker room hazing incident, which is probably what is being investigated.
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October 17, 2025 - Chino, CA - California High School Football Handshakes Devolve Into Chaos As Apparent Punch Sparks Melee, reported by Jacob Elsey, Brobible.com, October 21, 2025.
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October 14, 2025 - Petoskey, MI - High School Official Trips Over A Player on The Sidelines, Gets Up and Appears To Give The Player a Pretty Hard Shove. See Incident Between Gaylord Soccer Player, Match Official Under Investigation By MSP, reported by Dylan Jespersen, Petoskey News Review, October 15, 2025. The MSP reference in the headline is the Michigan State Police, and I'd say it's possible that the official will face charges.
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October 10, 2025 - Oklahoma City, OK - This act of good sportsmanship occurred at the conclusion of the 2024-25 basketball season, and ended up as the subject of a CBS News report in October, 2025. See An Oklahoma Girls Basketball Team Returned Its Championship After Discovering it Actually Lost The Title Game, reported by Steve Hartman, CBS News.
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October 10, 2025 - Urbana, IL - Urbana Handed Forfeit Loss After Fight Ends Football Game vs. Richwoods, reported by Glenn Kinley and Ethan Holesha, WCIA-3 (Champaign, IL), October 14, 2025.
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October 9, 2025 - Philadelphia, PA - Philly High School Football Team Suspended After Wild Brawl Caught On Video, reported by Brendan Brightman and Miguel Matinez-Valle, NBC-10.
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October 7, 2025 - California. For an analysis of the California Interscholastic Federation's NIL lawsuit, see, High School, High Stakes: Calhoun v. CIF and the NIL Clash To Come, reported by Nick Briggs, novasportslaw.com.
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October 3, 2025 - Massillon, OH - Police Restrain Team In Post-Game Handshake Line Confrontation With Pepper Spray - lawsuits and controversy follow. See Cardinal Ritter Football Families Hire Attorneys After Police Pepper Sprayed Players, reported by Hunter Bassler, KSDK.com (St. Louis).
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October 1, 2025 - ESports Must Have Arrived As Courtse Are Trying To Figure Out Whether It's A Countable Title IX Sport. See Current Status of ESports Related To Title IX, by W. Scott Lewis, J.D., NFHS.org.
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LATEST COLLINS ARTICLES/INFORMATION
Assigning Shortage Liability, It’s Official, Monthly Newsletter of the National Association of Sports Officials, April 2024, page 8.
I.C. for U And Almost All, Referee Magazine, March 2024, page 80 (National Association of Sports Officials).
FROM THE ARCHIVES
California Celebrates State Day, It's Official, October 2023, page 4 (National Association of Sports Officials).
IC Chaos in California, Referee Magazine, January 2021, page 80 (National Association of Sports Officials).
Gig Economy Bill, Referee Magazine, January 2020, page 80 (National Association of Sports Officials).
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