Justin Watkins

Managing Partner of Battle Born Injury Lawyers. ESPN1100 Legal Insider. #VegasBorn #GoBeavs

[Justin Watkins @BattleBornJW]

@nickdaschel We have lost our way when “the integrity of sports competition” compels a boycott of a school that reported a player betting WHEN AT A DIFFERENT SCHOOL, and got him into counseling, but is ok with playing schools that literally covered up for rapists so they would continue to win

[Justin Watkins @BattleBornJW]

@DanWetzel @espn TT signed him with no knowledge of betting issue. Discovered it. Reported it. Got the kid into counseling. Cincy knew he was betting, didn’t report, didn’t intervene, let him play anyway. Who did the “right thing”?

[Justin Watkins @BattleBornJW]

@nickdaschel Can’t help but wonder where is the outrage for Cincy, the only school that knew he was betting but played him anyway? And where was the moral outrage to ban institutions when they were literally covering up sexual assault of their athletes?! (tOSU, Mich, MSU)

[COFIELD @stevecofield]

Watch/listen to Wednesday's @cofieldandco
LIVE @FindlayToyota Studios.

@battlebornJW on tons of legal issues around the Brendan Sorsby case

@sportingtrib 's @arashmarkazi on a mega major league sports week in Las Vegas

Presented by @JacksonsBar & @VegasBattleBorn

[Danny Webster @DannyWebster21]

Fantastic.

[Justin Watkins @BattleBornJW]

RT @ESPNLasVegas: College football is back in front of Congress. Why?

Former public servant @BattleBornJW told @cofieldandco how insultin…

[Justin Watkins @BattleBornJW]

@RGIII Same transfer rules for coaches? Once every 5 years? If the rule doesn’t make sense for coaches then I have a hard time mandating it to the players with collective bargaining

[COFIELD @stevecofield]

Watch/listen to Wednesday's @cofieldandco
w/ @WillieGRamirez LIVE @VegasBattleBorn

SCF Game 1 wrap w/@ashalivise

@ArashMarkazi Aaron Donald coming back?

@BattleBornJW on the Capitol Hill dog-and-pony show with Nick Saban

Presented by @JacksonsBar & @WilliamHillUS

[COFIELD @stevecofield]

Watch/listen to Wednesday's @cofieldandco
w/ @WillieGRamirez & @battlebornJW on:

-VGK WCF Gm 1
-Mike Vrabel in legal hot water?
-Is the P4 breaking up?
-Who won the MWC v PAC-12 court saga?
-The best way to make cookies?

Presented by @VegasBattleBorn & @NevadaBrewWorks

[COFIELD @stevecofield]

Watch/listen to Wednesday's @cofieldandco
with @meJVT

Wrestlemania 42 recap & LV arena madness with @arashmarkazi

@battlebornjw on the White House wanting a separate Group of Six playoff 🤯

@_brandyflores live from the NFL Draft in Pittsburgh

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

[Justin Watkins @BattleBornJW]

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[COFIELD @stevecofield]

Awesome @cofieldandco w/@jeffparles & @battlebornjw lined up on a big day in Vegas sports.

-VGK push to win the Pacific
-LV A's try to gain the edge in the Rangers series
-NBA Play-In night No. 2

Listen or watch at 3p.

[Justin Watkins @BattleBornJW]

@PhilipNILIP College wrestling has changed a lot in 30 years. Before, no life after wrestling (Olympics). Now, some wrestlers may have dreams of a pro MMA career, and so schools have embraced this and have club training for it. Not saying it’s better than Stanford Ed, but it’s not nothing…

[COFIELD @stevecofield]

Another monumental day in Vegas sports history.

A Vegas NBA franchise is one step closer!

@cofieldandco reaction from:
@MikePalmCirca
@ArashMarkazi
@BattleBornJW
@MikeDavisTV
@MylesASimmons
@_DannySmyth

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Good Monday @cofieldandco w/ @williegramirez on the way:

@ArashMarkazi on the World Cup in LA
@betwithboomer Nick B on tourney week(s)
@calebherring on the NFL Combine
@BattleBornJW on CFB player's rights

Watch 👇

[Michael McCann @McCannSportsLaw]

NIL isn't supposed to be used for recruitment or retention. NIL is an IP concept--the college sports subset of the right of publicity. Ed O'Bannon sued over player likenesses in video games. That's NIL. Using "NIL" to land a recruit is better understood as a signing bonus, IMO.

[Scott Schneider @EdLawDude]

I don’t think this follows. If a liquidated damages clause is unenforceable, the consequence isn’t “no remedy,” it’s that Duke must prove actual damages—or recover none. Courts strike LD clauses all the time without backfilling equitable relief.

[Olivia Nuss, Esq. @onuss_]

And perhaps now is a good time to stop pretending these agreements have anything to do with NIL

[Scott Schneider @EdLawDude]

There are things sports lawyers say about employment law that make me cringe. This is one of them.

Employment contracts don’t force people to stay—they price the exit. Occasionally, they also restrict where employees can go.