June 4, 2026 • 8 mins
Attorney Stuart W. Penrose of Minnillo Law Group joins us every week to discuss sports and the law. How might Brendan Sorsby's injunction case against the NCAA play out? Does legislation designed to "save" college sports have any chance of passing? What do we need to know about the upcoming MLB labor battle?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On Tuesdays. At this time we talked sports and the
law with our sports legal expert. This guy has been
such a great addition to our show. Attorney Stewart W.
Penrose from the Manilo Law Group. He is with us
to talk about a trio of topics that have come
up pretty frequently here over the course. At the last month, Stuart,
always awesome to have you good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
How are you always great to be on most doing well?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So the Brendan Sorosby and you and I have spent
a lot of time on him. His injunction hearing was
held yesterday, a ruling hasn't yet been handed down. I
guess I'm wondering this if his argument is based at
least in part on his mental health, essentially would be
aided by him being able to play college football again,
(00:45):
and he's had a mental condition that has contributed to
his addiction, which he has sought treatment for. I'm kind
of wondering from your perspective, what possible precedents could be
set if such defense was accepted.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well, strong precedents that would severely weaken the NCAA's ability
to govern and enforce a gambling rules. Which are you
know long established as being some of the most important
rules in sports that you can't break. You know, essentially,
you know, it reads more mo as mitigation and not
(01:21):
a defense. You know, something meant to reduce punishment and
not eliminate it. But you know, if he's allowed to
play and this defense works, well, then others can say that, hey,
you know I didn't break the rules. I had a
disorder or my disorder is what caused me to break
the rules, and we need to focus on treatment and
not punishment, and it could set up a precedent for
(01:45):
treatment versus punishment.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So the hearing was held yesterday and I think there
were a lot of odd Okay, well, there's there's going
to be a ruling on the hearing, a ruling on
the injunction. And instead what we were told was, well,
it may take as long as a week, but the
ruling could come down at any Procedurally, how do these
things work.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
The judge takes it under advisement. And I mean, just
like what you said, I mean, sometimes you get a
decision right away. Sometimes it takes a little bit of time.
You know, certainly they want to get this figured out
quickly because he's got to figure out if he's going
to be able to play at Texas Tech or if
he needs to go to the supplemental draft. So I
wouldn't expect it to take too long. But yes, the
judge decides what he desires. That's how the court works.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
There has been Yeah, there has been a lot of
reporting over the last couple of days about the specific
extent of his gambling. And you know, I've asked you
before about him perhaps facing down the road criminal prosecution,
given that we have seen athletes and other sports get
investigated by the FEDS for their potential role in games
being fixed, and we know that Soresby was making wagers
(02:48):
involving programs that he was a part of, specifically IU football.
Is he really clear of any federal or criminal probe.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
He's not clear of it at this time. I mean,
that's said, we don't have any public evidence right now
that any criminal conduct occurred. But you know, certainly the
authoritative boards will investigate this to see if there's any
any sort of fraud or insider information that he's trading on,
or whether he vetted by proxy or whatnot. So certainly
(03:18):
you know there's there's going to be you know, so
some delve into the statistic what happened and if so, yes,
he could face he could face some issues there, but
we just don't know any of that publicly yet at
this point.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Well, last week we learned about the Protect College Sports Act,
which is bipartisan legislation that would give the NCAA an
anti trust exemption to enforce a number of rules that
have been challenged in recent years. And you know, from
my perspective, there's some pretty common sense stuff limiting athlete
eligibility to a maximum of five years, limiting athletes are
(03:51):
transferring schools only one time without penalty, keeping former pros
from being able to play in college. Like to me,
there's some pretty big, basic common sense stuff here. And
then there are some some issues that some of the
individual conferences may take umbrage with. Most that I have
heard and read have said that this legislation has very
little chance of passing. Others have called this legislation the
(04:15):
last and best hope for legitimate legal nc double A
guardrails which so many have claimed that college boards so
desperately need. Why Why does this seemingly have such a
little chance of actually becoming law.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Well, because everybody agrees the system is broken, you know,
but nobody agrees on how to fix it. You know,
who are they going to want the new laws to favor?
The NC double A, the conferences, the schools, the athletes.
There's so many people at play to get consensus, to
get a consensus on passing something that's uh, you know,
(04:51):
very wide ranging. I mean, it's certainly very possible that
they can pass some protections here for the instable and
have you know some know that passes through that you know,
that helps restore orders somewhere. But but if you're looking
for something that's completely all encompassing, you know, it's very
unlikely to happen.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
There's also going to be a Senate Commerce Committee hearing
on college sports. What is that going to accomplish?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Well, it gets testimony out there, It gets the you know,
the powers that be out there to you know see
what uh you know, what are the side degree upon?
What do they not agree upon? You know, get it
builds a record as well, and uh and gets the
It gets Congress hockey and that's that's really what it does.
To create the record, and you know, sees where there's
(05:37):
areas to uh to build something and where there's you
know where are you have areas that could help me?
Were you have areas that couldn't?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Attorney Storetub with you. Penrose from the Manila Law Group
is with us. So we're also we're getting ready for
months and months and months of public posturing by Major
League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association as
they try to avoid a lockout, try to hammer out
a new collective bargaining agreement. And the opening proposals were
made public last week, one by Major League Baseball, one
(06:07):
by the Players Association. It does feel like the two
sides are are very far apart, and I've seen people
who cover the sport that say, don't worry about that,
like they're going to be far apart. It's can they
come closer to the middle. And I've heard people say, like,
these two sides are so far apart there's no chance
of them coming to an agreement in time for a
(06:29):
lockout to be avoided. So can you, from your perspective
legal expertise, can you give us a kind of a
legal roadmap for how you expect these negotiations to play
out in the coming months.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Sure, I mean right now, mo, you know they're going
out there with their public proposals, and you know, on
public posturing they're trying to you know, build leverage and
public support for each of their side. You know, the
closer we get to a deadline here, that's when negotiations
has become more serious. You know, the fundamental thing here
is are we going to have a salary cap? Or
is baseball going to stay the only American you know,
(07:03):
pro sport without a salary cap. And you know the
sides are clearly you know, dug and hired on that.
And you know MLB is a ship that's sailing pretty smoothly.
They have every incentive in the world to you know,
try to keep the ship afloat and not sink it. So, yes,
things can, things can come together at the last minute,
and often do it these types of negotiations. But there's
(07:25):
going to be you know a lot of posturing, a
lot of this playing out in the public. Probably uh
negotiations and parts of negotiations is getting leaked out there.
It's extinme have public pressure. There's gonna be a lot
that plays out between now and December.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yes, and I'm probably gonna have questions about it on
a pretty frequent basis. Attorney's store. Ubedy Penrose from the
Manila Law Group, tell my audience more about the work
that you and your colleagues at Manila Law Group.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
What you guys do. Certainly, we're a full service law
firm personal injury, bankruptcy, criminal defense. We have offices throughout
the city mode we can help people all over the
Dry State. If you get in an auto action, I
want you to give me a call at five one
three seven two three sixteen hundred. We're here to help
our community and give us a call five one three
(08:17):
seven two three sixteen hundred.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Five one three seven two three sixteen hundred. Attorney Stewart W.
Penrose from the Manilo Law Group. Awesome stuff. As always,
we'll talk next week.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Thank you, Ma,
On Tuesdays. At this time we talked sports and the
law with our sports legal expert. This guy has been
such a great addition to our show. Attorney Stewart W.
Penrose from the Manilo Law Group. He is with us
to talk about a trio of topics that have come
up pretty frequently here over the course. At the last month, Stuart,
always awesome to have you good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
How are you always great to be on most doing well?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So the Brendan Sorosby and you and I have spent
a lot of time on him. His injunction hearing was
held yesterday, a ruling hasn't yet been handed down. I
guess I'm wondering this if his argument is based at
least in part on his mental health, essentially would be
aided by him being able to play college football again,
(00:45):
and he's had a mental condition that has contributed to
his addiction, which he has sought treatment for. I'm kind
of wondering from your perspective, what possible precedents could be
set if such defense was accepted.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well, strong precedents that would severely weaken the NCAA's ability
to govern and enforce a gambling rules. Which are you
know long established as being some of the most important
rules in sports that you can't break. You know, essentially,
you know, it reads more mo as mitigation and not
(01:21):
a defense. You know, something meant to reduce punishment and
not eliminate it. But you know, if he's allowed to
play and this defense works, well, then others can say that, hey,
you know I didn't break the rules. I had a
disorder or my disorder is what caused me to break
the rules, and we need to focus on treatment and
not punishment, and it could set up a precedent for
(01:45):
treatment versus punishment.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So the hearing was held yesterday and I think there
were a lot of odd Okay, well, there's there's going
to be a ruling on the hearing, a ruling on
the injunction. And instead what we were told was, well,
it may take as long as a week, but the
ruling could come down at any Procedurally, how do these
things work.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
The judge takes it under advisement. And I mean, just
like what you said, I mean, sometimes you get a
decision right away. Sometimes it takes a little bit of time.
You know, certainly they want to get this figured out
quickly because he's got to figure out if he's going
to be able to play at Texas Tech or if
he needs to go to the supplemental draft. So I
wouldn't expect it to take too long. But yes, the
judge decides what he desires. That's how the court works.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
There has been Yeah, there has been a lot of
reporting over the last couple of days about the specific
extent of his gambling. And you know, I've asked you
before about him perhaps facing down the road criminal prosecution,
given that we have seen athletes and other sports get
investigated by the FEDS for their potential role in games
being fixed, and we know that Soresby was making wagers
(02:48):
involving programs that he was a part of, specifically IU football.
Is he really clear of any federal or criminal probe.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
He's not clear of it at this time. I mean,
that's said, we don't have any public evidence right now
that any criminal conduct occurred. But you know, certainly the
authoritative boards will investigate this to see if there's any
any sort of fraud or insider information that he's trading on,
or whether he vetted by proxy or whatnot. So certainly
(03:18):
you know there's there's going to be you know, so
some delve into the statistic what happened and if so, yes,
he could face he could face some issues there, but
we just don't know any of that publicly yet at
this point.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Well, last week we learned about the Protect College Sports Act,
which is bipartisan legislation that would give the NCAA an
anti trust exemption to enforce a number of rules that
have been challenged in recent years. And you know, from
my perspective, there's some pretty common sense stuff limiting athlete
eligibility to a maximum of five years, limiting athletes are
(03:51):
transferring schools only one time without penalty, keeping former pros
from being able to play in college. Like to me,
there's some pretty big, basic common sense stuff here. And
then there are some some issues that some of the
individual conferences may take umbrage with. Most that I have
heard and read have said that this legislation has very
little chance of passing. Others have called this legislation the
(04:15):
last and best hope for legitimate legal nc double A
guardrails which so many have claimed that college boards so
desperately need. Why Why does this seemingly have such a
little chance of actually becoming law.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Well, because everybody agrees the system is broken, you know,
but nobody agrees on how to fix it. You know,
who are they going to want the new laws to favor?
The NC double A, the conferences, the schools, the athletes.
There's so many people at play to get consensus, to
get a consensus on passing something that's uh, you know,
(04:51):
very wide ranging. I mean, it's certainly very possible that
they can pass some protections here for the instable and
have you know some know that passes through that you know,
that helps restore orders somewhere. But but if you're looking
for something that's completely all encompassing, you know, it's very
unlikely to happen.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
There's also going to be a Senate Commerce Committee hearing
on college sports. What is that going to accomplish?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Well, it gets testimony out there, It gets the you know,
the powers that be out there to you know see
what uh you know, what are the side degree upon?
What do they not agree upon? You know, get it
builds a record as well, and uh and gets the
It gets Congress hockey and that's that's really what it does.
To create the record, and you know, sees where there's
(05:37):
areas to uh to build something and where there's you
know where are you have areas that could help me?
Were you have areas that couldn't?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Attorney Storetub with you. Penrose from the Manila Law Group
is with us. So we're also we're getting ready for
months and months and months of public posturing by Major
League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association as
they try to avoid a lockout, try to hammer out
a new collective bargaining agreement. And the opening proposals were
made public last week, one by Major League Baseball, one
(06:07):
by the Players Association. It does feel like the two
sides are are very far apart, and I've seen people
who cover the sport that say, don't worry about that,
like they're going to be far apart. It's can they
come closer to the middle. And I've heard people say, like,
these two sides are so far apart there's no chance
of them coming to an agreement in time for a
(06:29):
lockout to be avoided. So can you, from your perspective
legal expertise, can you give us a kind of a
legal roadmap for how you expect these negotiations to play
out in the coming months.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Sure, I mean right now, mo, you know they're going
out there with their public proposals, and you know, on
public posturing they're trying to you know, build leverage and
public support for each of their side. You know, the
closer we get to a deadline here, that's when negotiations
has become more serious. You know, the fundamental thing here
is are we going to have a salary cap? Or
is baseball going to stay the only American you know,
(07:03):
pro sport without a salary cap. And you know the
sides are clearly you know, dug and hired on that.
And you know MLB is a ship that's sailing pretty smoothly.
They have every incentive in the world to you know,
try to keep the ship afloat and not sink it. So, yes,
things can, things can come together at the last minute,
and often do it these types of negotiations. But there's
(07:25):
going to be you know a lot of posturing, a
lot of this playing out in the public. Probably uh
negotiations and parts of negotiations is getting leaked out there.
It's extinme have public pressure. There's gonna be a lot
that plays out between now and December.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yes, and I'm probably gonna have questions about it on
a pretty frequent basis. Attorney's store. Ubedy Penrose from the
Manila Law Group, tell my audience more about the work
that you and your colleagues at Manila Law Group.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
What you guys do. Certainly, we're a full service law
firm personal injury, bankruptcy, criminal defense. We have offices throughout
the city mode we can help people all over the
Dry State. If you get in an auto action, I
want you to give me a call at five one
three seven two three sixteen hundred. We're here to help
our community and give us a call five one three
(08:17):
seven two three sixteen hundred.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Five one three seven two three sixteen hundred. Attorney Stewart W.
Penrose from the Manilo Law Group. Awesome stuff. As always,
we'll talk next week.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Thank you, Ma,
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