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Sports headlines, argued like legal cases.
Conduct Detrimental is a brisk sports-law roundtable built around the legal aftershock of current sports news. The panel moves through NIL disputes, eligibility rulings, betting scandals, labor fights, criminal charges, and league discipline with conversational lawyerly focus.
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Conduct Detrimental is sports law with the pace of a busy week and the texture of a roundtable that has been arguing by text before the microphones turned on. The show begins with current events, then asks what the law can actually do with them. That means NIL lawsuits, eligibility appeals, point-shaving charges, league investigations, collective bargaining disputes, trademark fights, player discipline, criminal allegations, and lawsuits that sit just behind the box score. It is not a headline recap. The panel tends to work from facts to procedure to consequences, pausing over clauses, court orders, arbitration language, enforcement power, and the incentives facing schools, leagues, athletes, agents, and collectives. Short jokes and personal digressions keep the room loose. Then the conversation snaps back to the legal problem. Recent episodes show the range: an election-related betting platform, NIL conflict, college basketball betting scandals, a labor standoff, a lawsuit, an injury investigation, an NIL contract dispute, anti-tanking concerns, and questions around athletes with pending criminal matters. The show is especially useful when a sports story has become legally noisy. A temporary restraining order can be partly granted and partly denied. A school may want arbitration more than a public lawsuit. A medical redshirt question can become a fairness problem, a procedural problem, and a money problem all at once. Conduct Detrimental is comfortable living in that mess. It gives sports fans enough legal structure to understand why a story matters, while keeping the pace and attitude of people who still care about the games. The analysis can be blunt. It can also be cautious when the facts are incomplete. That balance is the show’s lane: lively practitioner-style talk that treats sports controversies as disputes with records, rules, leverage, and consequences.
Made for: For sports fans and listeners who want the legal machinery behind NIL, betting, discipline, labor, and league disputes explained in plain language.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by treating fast-moving sports controversies as practical legal problems, with panel debate that follows documents, procedure, incentives, and likely fallout instead of stopping at opinion.
Conduct Detrimental is a leading sports law media organization founded in 2016 by sports lawyer Dan Wallach. From our podcast hosted by sports lawyers Dan Lust, Tarun Sharma, and law student Mike Kravchenko, to our website, social media, and events, we break down complex legal developments in sports, making them accessible to attorneys, students, fans, and industry professionals. Submit insights or join our team at [email protected] and follow us @ConDetrimental.All information presented is for general informational purposes only and should not be taken as legal advice.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It makes sports disputes legible by tracing the contracts, enforcement questions, and institutional leverage beneath the headlines.
Conduct Detrimental: THE Sports Law Podcast follows the legal machinery behind roster decisions, college eligibility, media rights, and athlete compensation.
An NIL contract meets an arbitration clause, and your group chat suddenly needs a legal pad.
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A year-end sports-law episode uses Anthony Joshua's accident to examine possible civil liability.
Conduct Detrimental closes 2025 with a sports-law conversation that treats a year-end wrap-up as something still in motion. Dan Lust and Mike Krivchenko move from holiday-season banter and Mike's engagement into the legal questions around Anthony Joshua's accident, with the main…
A clear sports-law roundtable on Georgia's NIL arbitration fight and the machinery behind modern college athletics.
Dan Loss, Mike Kravchenko, and Taryn T. Baby Sharma turn this Conduct Detrimental episode into a practical map of college sports law in motion, moving from Michigan and Sherrone Moore into Georgia's contract dispute with Wilson.
A conversational sports-law roundtable ties NBA media rights, NCAA discipline, and NIL to real stakes.
Conduct Detrimental frames sports law as something still being negotiated in public, moving from the Warner Brothers and TNT settlement with the NBA to Michigan's cheating allegations and the return of NIL Hour.
A practical NIL discussion focused on agent registration, athlete education, and whether enforcement can actually scale.
College sports' NIL machinery is considered from the point where policy starts affecting an athlete's real choices: who represents them, how schools deal with agencies, and what a workable oversight system would need.
Bill Simmons debates NBA tanking, MVP races, and movies with Zach Lowe and friends.
Zach Lowe and ESPN colleagues dissect NBA trades, cap rules, and roster fit.
Big Cat and PFT Commenter cover the NFL, March Madness, and NHL for laughs.
Ryen Russillo runs weekly NFL and MLB recaps with beat reporters like Jeff Passan and Mike Sando.
Two hosts break down the ATP and WTA tour week, daily through every Grand Slam.
Race journalists and Damon Hill break down F1 driver markets, team history, and car tech.
Dan Lust hosts with Mike Kravchenko, Mike Lawson, and Tarun Sharma to analyze recent sports law developments.
A sports law podcast covering MLB/UFC betting scandals, Brian Kelly's LSU contract lawsuit, Big Ten private equity, and an interview with Columbus Blue Jackets' Kasey Hughes.
Host Dan Lust and guest Hannah Valenti interview Tate Gillespie, Director of NIL Strategy at Kansas, and Ben Chase, Director of NIL Strategy at Florida.
Dan Lust and Michael Xavier Kravchenko discuss recent sports law and betting news, including Arizona's action against Kalshi, an Alabama star's legal trouble, a point shaving plea, Nebraska's NIL conflict, and fallout from a White House roundtable.
Dan Lust and Mike Kravchenko discuss recent sports legal news including the MLBPA scandal, Jaden Rashada's settlement, Cincinnati's lawsuit against a former QB, NBA anti-tanking rules, and Sean Strickland's mic being cut.
Dan Luss and Michael Kravchenko examine Charles Badiako’s return-to-college eligibility dispute after his Alabama career and G League contracts.
Conduct Detrimental's Dan Lust, Mike Lawson and Landis Barber open on Duke's lawsuit against quarterback Darian Mensah, where a temporary restraining order let him enter the transfer portal but not enroll at another school, with a January 23rd enrollment deadline pending.
A sports law podcast episode covering college basketball point-shaving charges, WNBA CBA standoff, Marcus Freeman cleared, and a student law board discussion.
Dan Lust and Mike Krivchenko deliver a year-end review of 2025 sports law on the final episode of Conduct Detrimental, recorded in late December 2025.
Conduct Detrimental centers on Sherrone Moore, Georgia's Damon Wilson II NIL dispute, the NASCAR antitrust resolution, and Terry Rozier's gambling-related trade questions.
This episode covers MLB and UFC betting scandals, Brian Kelly's LSU contract lawsuit, Big Ten private equity issues, and an interview with Kasey Hughes of the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Taryn Sharma discusses collectives vs.
Dan Lust and Mike Kravchenko kick off 2025 by reflecting on the past year in sports law and sharing personal anecdotes about their holiday break.
A sports law podcast panel discusses Paul vs.