Tanner Lipson

Sports Agent, Athlete Marketing, NIL @thefamilie_ // 2x ASU alum 🔱 @seligslb

[Tom Fornelli @TomFornelli]

These are perfect. Good job, @ASUFootball

[Warren Sharp @SharpFootball]

run of the night

feet like these & 4.33 speed 💨💨

[Tanner Lipson @tanner_lipson]

Can’t wait for football season

[Tanner Lipson @tanner_lipson]

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[Tanner Lipson @tanner_lipson]

My non footy friends thought it was a World Cup mandate for all players to wear pink boots…

[Tanner Lipson @tanner_lipson]

The boot manufacturers absolutely blew it w/ their World Cup packs. Did every brand just read the same market analysis report generated by Claude? So beyond stupid. None of them stand out! #worldcupboots

[Tanner Lipson @tanner_lipson]

The boot manufacturers absolutely blew it w/ their World Cup packs. Did every brand just read the same market analysis report generated by Claude? So beyond stupid. None of them stand out! #worldcupboots

[Tanner Lipson @tanner_lipson]

In retrospect, that 22 minute justification video from @TexasTechFB is hilarious. Should go into the Twitter HOF.

[Jonathan Smith @DegenerateTBone]

Texas Tech's PR strategy to defend playing Brenden Sorsby seems to be:

1. We're just trying to help a child who is also an addict
2. Hey, at least he didn't murder anyone, amirite?
3. We'll sue your ass if you don't want to play us

Did I miss anything?

[Ian Rapoport @RapSheet]

#Browns first-round pick WR KC Concepcion has just signed his four-year, fully guaranteed rookie contract worth roughly $20 million in a deal done by agents Cleo Floyd, Jeff Griffin and Erik Schmella of The Familie.

[David McKenzie @mckenzielaw]

A Texas state court judge just blocked the NCAA from enforcing its rule against betting on your own team with no legal analysis whatsoever. The player, Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby, admitted to more than 9,000 bets totaling $90,000 across three schools, including 40 bets on Indiana football while he was playing for Indiana and bets on opposing players to overachieve in games against his own school's basketball team. He continued betting after transferring to Texas Tech in January.

The penalty for betting on your own team is, and has always been, permanent ineligibility. It is the brightest line in sports. Judge Ken Curry decided enforcing it would cause "irreparable injury" because Sorsby would miss out on "elite coaching" and "camaraderie." The order's substantive reasoning consists of four conclusory sentences.

Side bar: Calling this order paper-thin insults paper. There are no findings. There are no conclusions of law. The court simply found that being denied "camaraderie" constitutes irreparable injury, that the balance of equities favors the player who placed 40 bets on his own team, that he has a likelihood of success on the merits despite admitting to the conduct the rule prohibits, and that the public interest is served by enjoining enforcement of the single most important integrity rule in college sports. I'd like to say this is funny, but it really is not.

But the legal theories the court accepted are more alarming than the result. Breach of contract for enforcing a rule that was part of the contract. Breach of good faith for not exercising discretion the rule does not grant. Breach of fiduciary duty the NCAA does not owe under any recognized law. Apply these theories as the court applied them here, and every NCAA rule becomes provisional. Every penalty becomes subject to challenge on the theory that the NCAA should have exercised its discretion differently. The entire rulebook becomes a starting point for individualized litigation.

That may be the actual strategy. If so, Sorsby's attorneys are running it perfectly. Find a sympathetic state court. Get a preliminary injunction. Run out the clock. The NCAA can move to dissolve, but the order is not a final judgment, and the Texas Court of Appeals is unlikely to disturb it on a supersedeas basis. By the time any meaningful appellate review occurs, Sorsby will have played the season on a $4 million one-year deal, the legal victory will be moot, the precedent of nonenforcement will be set, and the next player with the next lawyer will learn that NCAA rules are unenforceable in practice regardless of what they say on paper. The plaintiffs' bar has discovered that state court contract and equity claims can do what antitrust litigation cannot— dissolve the NCAA's enforcement authority case by case, in venues chosen for sympathy, on standards flexible enough to override almost any adverse decision.

The one piece of good news for any fair-minded observer watching this case is that the order binds no court outside Texas. A federal court is not constrained by it. Neither is any state court in any other jurisdiction. Sorsby won here. The next athlete bringing the same theories in a different forum may not.

[Tanner Lipson @tanner_lipson]

Forget the legal outcome. Sorsby & @TechAthletics admitted he has a serious addiction. The worst thing that can happen to an addict…a slap on the wrist punishment & sending that person back into the addiction enabling environment. Morally corrupt leaders in Lubbock cc: @CodyC64

[Tanner Lipson @tanner_lipson]

College sports. Nothing like it

[Scott Springer @sspringersports]

From @lubbockonline at Sorsby hearing: In countering the plaintiff argument that athletes with gambling addictions won't come forward to seek help in the future if Sorsby's banned, NCAA attorney Taylor Askew says, "Mr. Sorsby didn't come forward. He got caught, and when he got caught, then he went to treatment and that's the first time you heard about this mental health concern. ... He was found out by law enforcement and that's what triggered this."

[Tanner Lipson @tanner_lipson]

This @ASU_Baseball team is so fun to watch 🔱

[Tanner Lipson @tanner_lipson]

@FIFAWorldCup None cause you’re a terrorist group

[FPL Frasier @FPLfrasier]

Most assists in PL this season

21 - Bruno Fernandes
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13 - Bruno under Carrick
12 - Rayan Cherki
11 - Bruno from set-pieces
11 - Jarrod Bowen
10 - Bruno from open-play
8 - Erling Haaland
7 - Bruno under Amorim

[LEEZUS @AndrewLeezus]

I miss Mikal as a Sun so much. He loved AZ too.

Top 5 iconic video of him here https://t.co/A5AKsS4q6K

[Bruno Fernandes @B_Fernandes8]

how can I assist you? ☕

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

BRUNO FERNANDES. RECORD-BREAKER.

[Jake Hildebrand @JakeH_2027]

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