July 3, 2026 • 9 mins
Attorney Stuart W. Penrose of Minnillo Law Group joins us every week to discuss sports and the law. This week, Brendan Sorsby's 2026 NFL dead-end, an NFL player and a couple basketball players who are in hot water, and a case filed in Cincinnati by some college basketball players who are looking for more eligibility.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We normally do this on Tuesdays, but I was out
yesterday and so he was kind enough to move his
segment to this afternoon. Our sports legal analyst, Attorney Stuart W.
Penrose from the Manilo Law Group, on a whole bunch
of sports legal issues, which we've sort of and maybe
we're coming out of this right now, but in recent
(00:21):
weeks it's been the Brendan Soresby segment. Stuart, how we doing.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm doing great, Mom. How about yourself?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'm doing well and I appreciate you adjusting your calendar
for mine. We do have to start by talking about
Brendan Soresby. So he's not going to pursue, it looks
like any legal action against the NFL for not having
a supplemental draft. He's not going to pursue any legal action,
I guess against the Canadian Football League. He's going to
(00:49):
focus on the NFL draft in twenty twenty seven, and
that seems like the right move. Did he have against
the NFL any real legal recourse to force them to
give him a shot to play in the league this year?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
On the surf on the surface of it, very unlikely.
You know, he's not a he's not an NFL player,
and you know, therefore he's not a member of the
NFL Players Association. There's nothing on the face of it
that says that he's entitled to any protections or that,
or that they could even provide him any protections if
they wanted to. So, I know his lawyer went out
(01:27):
there initially and you know, made some comments and try
to say that the NFL you know, violently their collective
bargaining agreement with it. But even if they did, I mean,
he's not a member of the nfl PA, and he
might not even be the right person to have standing
to bring that forward in court. And you know, congratulations
to him. I'm finally getting some good advice somewhere and
you know, focusing on uh, you know, going next season
(01:50):
and you know, hopefully earned a healthier life for himself
and and being a really really ugly saga.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah, and and look, I I genuinely hope that uh
he figures life out, gets a real crack in the
NFL and can be judged on how he performs on
the field. It never made sense to him. And you
just touched on this. You know, you have a collective
bargaining agreement which is designed to be an agreement. It's
basically an employment agreement right for en mass for and
large for a large group of people. And so what
(02:18):
legal argument would one have that a CBA that's designed
to provide certain rules, for lack of a better way
of putting it, for these employees, you should cover me
when I'm not an employee of an NFL team and
thus not a union member.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I don't see what the argument would be if he's
not an employee and he's not a member of the union.
I don't see how the union could could protect him here.
And you know that was probably part of his rationale
and drop them the whole thing and moving on with it.
You know, the buck's got to stop somewhere, and you
know this is where it finally stopped.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
We had the story this week involving now former Alliance
quarterback Terry and Arnold, who I guess faces life in prison.
He has been arrested on the accusation of being the
primary conspirator in a kidnapping and armed robbery scheme against
three individuals that I guess he believes previously robbed him.
He's accused of putting together a scheme where he and
(03:14):
his co conspirators lured the victims into an apartment and
they were allegedly viciously beaten. So I guess start with this.
Describe for me the charges he is facing and the
sort of hot water he is potentially dealing with.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Well, but the allegations are obviously as serious as they get,
you know, short of murder. You know, he's stacy for
the kidnapping and four counts of armed robbery. You know,
he did get bond, He was granted and posting a
million dollar bond with some conditions. Here prosecutors are trying
to force the court to slap an ankle monitor on him,
(03:51):
but for right now he doesn't have an equal monitor
on him. But they're extremely serious allegations. Mo, he's stacing
life in prison right now if he's convicted of Everything.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Goes into determining whether someone is released or kept behind
bars while they await trial.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
There's a lot that goes into it. You can go
to Roome the Hamilton County Justice Center every day and
watch people get bomb po you know, put on them
by the magics, by the judges. They're going to look
at how much of a dangerous this person in the community.
If they're out. Are they a flight risk? How serious
are the allegations? Does this person have a prior criminal record?
(04:29):
That's predominantly what they're looking at when when setting bond
in an individual.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
When when they assess flight risk do they do they
factor in the the notoriety that someone may have. If
you're a professional athlete and grand granted Terran Arnold might
not be a household name and face for a lot
of folks, but he's he's less anonymous than I hate
to pay put it this way, but the garden variety
person facing criminal charges, do they factor in, Hey, it's
(04:54):
going to be harder for this person to leave or
bolt the country or go into hiding because they're relatively well.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Known, just so extent. But at the center, another end
of the coin, mo, someone like him has the means
to do it if he were to choose to do it.
I understand he's had to surrender his passport is as
part of this, so certainly that helps. But you know,
if somebody has the means to do it, that can
certainly lead to a much higher bond.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Our guy, our sports legal expert, attorney Stewart W. Penrose
from the Manila Law Group describe the Chargers facing former
NBA players Malik Beasley and Ed Davis.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Well, first off, Ed Davis went to my high school,
Benedictine back on l Virginia. Oh, he's the best athlete
to come from Benedictine High School, my alma mater.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Oh man, Okay, all right, Well he's got that going
for him. What else.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
He's got that going from? Well, he's faced in federal
wiring and you know, a fial wire faut and sports
betting charges here. So it's not looking good for him
or for or for Malik Beasley. You know, My understanding
is that, uh, Malik Beasley allegedly had wracked up serious
amounts of debts. It sounds like Ed Davis was retired
(06:08):
from the NBA at the time of this scheme was
carried on, but allegedly he acted as the bank for
Malik Beasley to bail him out of some of these
these debts. And they use Malik Beasley to work off
his debt allegedly by manipulating prop bets by getting certain
(06:28):
amounts of rebounds or points or whatnot. And when he,
you know, did something to appease Davis and these sports beetters,
they would wipe off portions of his debt. And that's
what this whole stems from.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
All Right, one more to ask you about. So we
have the n cna A crafting some rules regarding eligibility.
Uh that is gonna allow athletes five seasons of competition
over a five year period that begins with their full
time enrollment or the academic year following their nineteenth birthday,
or whichever comes first. And if it sounds like I'm
(07:04):
reading that, it's because I am. But there are fifteen
college basketball players who have filed suit here in Cincinnati
who are seeking an injunction that would allow a fifth
year of competition for athletes who graduated from high school
in twenty twenty two and who began their college careers
that fall and never read shirted. I gave you sort
of the the outline there. Dive in if you can
(07:27):
to the nuts and bolts of their case and how
legit it is.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Sure, well, it's a legitimen case. I mean, you know,
essentially the NCAA drew that line, and you know, any
I'm sure this is going to be the argument. Anytime
you draw a line, there's going to be winners and
losers of that and here, you know, we've got a
group of folks that you know, effectively have run out
of eligibility because of this new rule and they otherwise weren't.
And you know, they're filing for injunctive relief to allow
(07:54):
a fifth year of competition next season. And you're going
to see a lot more mitigation on the matter. You know,
this goes for to a hearing next week, so it's
going to be really interesting to see how the courts
the courts fall on this. But you knew there was
going to be a string of litigation on this as
soon as the n C double A made new rules,
(08:16):
and you know, and here it is. So we'll see
how it all comes down. I mean, the crust of
their argument is, hey, we're not saying you can't make rules.
We're not saying you can't draw a line. But this
is not fair to us because it wasn't applied equally
to h to our peers that you know graduated you know,
in the years you know, prior or you know, or
(08:36):
or after us here and furthermore, you know, being allowed
was allowing pros to come back and you know, to
play at some low college basketball. So they're throwing the
NT double a's hypocrisy back in their face. This is
not going to get this is not going to go
away overnight. But it was always going to be this way.
A line has to be drawn and there's going to
(08:57):
be people that are negatively affected by it, and here
they are.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
So Lebron James isn't going to play for the Lakers?
Should he sue for college eligibility? And can he play
for the Bearcats?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Last year? It would have been. Last year would have
been the year to try it. Mowat seem like anybody
could get into anything, all right.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
If if someone's like Ed Davis and they need an attorney,
how do folks get a hold of you?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Well? Ed Davis could call the Manila Law Group at
five one three seven two three sixteen hundred and talk
to my colleague Rob Heally about this. Mo We've got
the fourth of July holiday coming up, some of the
busiest UH travel days of the year on the roads
out there. Everyone be careful out there, and if somebody
isn't careful and hits you, I want you to call me.
(09:41):
Stuart W. Penrose at the Manila Law Group at five
one three seven two three sixteen hundred. When it's their fault,
it's our fight.
We normally do this on Tuesdays, but I was out
yesterday and so he was kind enough to move his
segment to this afternoon. Our sports legal analyst, Attorney Stuart W.
Penrose from the Manilo Law Group, on a whole bunch
of sports legal issues, which we've sort of and maybe
we're coming out of this right now, but in recent
(00:21):
weeks it's been the Brendan Soresby segment. Stuart, how we doing.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm doing great, Mom. How about yourself?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'm doing well and I appreciate you adjusting your calendar
for mine. We do have to start by talking about
Brendan Soresby. So he's not going to pursue, it looks
like any legal action against the NFL for not having
a supplemental draft. He's not going to pursue any legal action,
I guess against the Canadian Football League. He's going to
(00:49):
focus on the NFL draft in twenty twenty seven, and
that seems like the right move. Did he have against
the NFL any real legal recourse to force them to
give him a shot to play in the league this year?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
On the surf on the surface of it, very unlikely.
You know, he's not a he's not an NFL player,
and you know, therefore he's not a member of the
NFL Players Association. There's nothing on the face of it
that says that he's entitled to any protections or that,
or that they could even provide him any protections if
they wanted to. So, I know his lawyer went out
(01:27):
there initially and you know, made some comments and try
to say that the NFL you know, violently their collective
bargaining agreement with it. But even if they did, I mean,
he's not a member of the nfl PA, and he
might not even be the right person to have standing
to bring that forward in court. And you know, congratulations
to him. I'm finally getting some good advice somewhere and
you know, focusing on uh, you know, going next season
(01:50):
and you know, hopefully earned a healthier life for himself
and and being a really really ugly saga.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah, and and look, I I genuinely hope that uh
he figures life out, gets a real crack in the
NFL and can be judged on how he performs on
the field. It never made sense to him. And you
just touched on this. You know, you have a collective
bargaining agreement which is designed to be an agreement. It's
basically an employment agreement right for en mass for and
large for a large group of people. And so what
(02:18):
legal argument would one have that a CBA that's designed
to provide certain rules, for lack of a better way
of putting it, for these employees, you should cover me
when I'm not an employee of an NFL team and
thus not a union member.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I don't see what the argument would be if he's
not an employee and he's not a member of the union.
I don't see how the union could could protect him here.
And you know that was probably part of his rationale
and drop them the whole thing and moving on with it.
You know, the buck's got to stop somewhere, and you
know this is where it finally stopped.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
We had the story this week involving now former Alliance
quarterback Terry and Arnold, who I guess faces life in prison.
He has been arrested on the accusation of being the
primary conspirator in a kidnapping and armed robbery scheme against
three individuals that I guess he believes previously robbed him.
He's accused of putting together a scheme where he and
(03:14):
his co conspirators lured the victims into an apartment and
they were allegedly viciously beaten. So I guess start with this.
Describe for me the charges he is facing and the
sort of hot water he is potentially dealing with.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Well, but the allegations are obviously as serious as they get,
you know, short of murder. You know, he's stacy for
the kidnapping and four counts of armed robbery. You know,
he did get bond, He was granted and posting a
million dollar bond with some conditions. Here prosecutors are trying
to force the court to slap an ankle monitor on him,
(03:51):
but for right now he doesn't have an equal monitor
on him. But they're extremely serious allegations. Mo, he's stacing
life in prison right now if he's convicted of Everything.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Goes into determining whether someone is released or kept behind
bars while they await trial.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
There's a lot that goes into it. You can go
to Roome the Hamilton County Justice Center every day and
watch people get bomb po you know, put on them
by the magics, by the judges. They're going to look
at how much of a dangerous this person in the community.
If they're out. Are they a flight risk? How serious
are the allegations? Does this person have a prior criminal record?
(04:29):
That's predominantly what they're looking at when when setting bond
in an individual.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
When when they assess flight risk do they do they
factor in the the notoriety that someone may have. If
you're a professional athlete and grand granted Terran Arnold might
not be a household name and face for a lot
of folks, but he's he's less anonymous than I hate
to pay put it this way, but the garden variety
person facing criminal charges, do they factor in, Hey, it's
(04:54):
going to be harder for this person to leave or
bolt the country or go into hiding because they're relatively well.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Known, just so extent. But at the center, another end
of the coin, mo, someone like him has the means
to do it if he were to choose to do it.
I understand he's had to surrender his passport is as
part of this, so certainly that helps. But you know,
if somebody has the means to do it, that can
certainly lead to a much higher bond.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Our guy, our sports legal expert, attorney Stewart W. Penrose
from the Manila Law Group describe the Chargers facing former
NBA players Malik Beasley and Ed Davis.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Well, first off, Ed Davis went to my high school,
Benedictine back on l Virginia. Oh, he's the best athlete
to come from Benedictine High School, my alma mater.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Oh man, Okay, all right, Well he's got that going
for him. What else.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
He's got that going from? Well, he's faced in federal
wiring and you know, a fial wire faut and sports
betting charges here. So it's not looking good for him
or for or for Malik Beasley. You know, My understanding
is that, uh, Malik Beasley allegedly had wracked up serious
amounts of debts. It sounds like Ed Davis was retired
(06:08):
from the NBA at the time of this scheme was
carried on, but allegedly he acted as the bank for
Malik Beasley to bail him out of some of these
these debts. And they use Malik Beasley to work off
his debt allegedly by manipulating prop bets by getting certain
(06:28):
amounts of rebounds or points or whatnot. And when he,
you know, did something to appease Davis and these sports beetters,
they would wipe off portions of his debt. And that's
what this whole stems from.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
All Right, one more to ask you about. So we
have the n cna A crafting some rules regarding eligibility.
Uh that is gonna allow athletes five seasons of competition
over a five year period that begins with their full
time enrollment or the academic year following their nineteenth birthday,
or whichever comes first. And if it sounds like I'm
(07:04):
reading that, it's because I am. But there are fifteen
college basketball players who have filed suit here in Cincinnati
who are seeking an injunction that would allow a fifth
year of competition for athletes who graduated from high school
in twenty twenty two and who began their college careers
that fall and never read shirted. I gave you sort
of the the outline there. Dive in if you can
(07:27):
to the nuts and bolts of their case and how
legit it is.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Sure, well, it's a legitimen case. I mean, you know,
essentially the NCAA drew that line, and you know, any
I'm sure this is going to be the argument. Anytime
you draw a line, there's going to be winners and
losers of that and here, you know, we've got a
group of folks that you know, effectively have run out
of eligibility because of this new rule and they otherwise weren't.
And you know, they're filing for injunctive relief to allow
(07:54):
a fifth year of competition next season. And you're going
to see a lot more mitigation on the matter. You know,
this goes for to a hearing next week, so it's
going to be really interesting to see how the courts
the courts fall on this. But you knew there was
going to be a string of litigation on this as
soon as the n C double A made new rules,
(08:16):
and you know, and here it is. So we'll see
how it all comes down. I mean, the crust of
their argument is, hey, we're not saying you can't make rules.
We're not saying you can't draw a line. But this
is not fair to us because it wasn't applied equally
to h to our peers that you know graduated you know,
in the years you know, prior or you know, or
(08:36):
or after us here and furthermore, you know, being allowed
was allowing pros to come back and you know, to
play at some low college basketball. So they're throwing the
NT double a's hypocrisy back in their face. This is
not going to get this is not going to go
away overnight. But it was always going to be this way.
A line has to be drawn and there's going to
(08:57):
be people that are negatively affected by it, and here
they are.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
So Lebron James isn't going to play for the Lakers?
Should he sue for college eligibility? And can he play
for the Bearcats?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Last year? It would have been. Last year would have
been the year to try it. Mowat seem like anybody
could get into anything, all right.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
If if someone's like Ed Davis and they need an attorney,
how do folks get a hold of you?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Well? Ed Davis could call the Manila Law Group at
five one three seven two three sixteen hundred and talk
to my colleague Rob Heally about this. Mo We've got
the fourth of July holiday coming up, some of the
busiest UH travel days of the year on the roads
out there. Everyone be careful out there, and if somebody
isn't careful and hits you, I want you to call me.
(09:41):
Stuart W. Penrose at the Manila Law Group at five
one three seven two three sixteen hundred. When it's their fault,
it's our fight.
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