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California Sports Lawyer® Podcast with Jeremy Evans: AI Is Creating Media Rights Issues No One Negotiated

In Episode 2 of Season 8, host Jeremy M. Evans examines one of the most urgent and unsettled issues in modern sports and entertainment: how artificial intelligence is reshaping media rights in ways that existing contracts, leagues, and laws never anticipated. As AI-generated content, synthetic voices, automated highlights, and data-driven

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California Sports Lawyer® Podcast with Jeremy Evans: Why U.S. Sports Teams Are Worth More Than European Giants—and the Legal Structures Behind It

In the Season 8 premiere, California Sports Lawyer® Podcast host Jeremy M. Evans breaks down one of the most compelling financial contrasts in global sports today: why American professional sports franchises command significantly higher valuations than iconic European clubs, even when those clubs often have larger global fanbases. Jeremy explores

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Weekly Column: Why U.S. Sports Teams Are Worth More Than European Giants—and the Legal Structures Behind It

In this week’s column, California Sports Lawyer® CEO and Managing Attorney Jeremy M. Evans writes about the financial valuation of American vs. European professional sports franchises.  

The American system provides more stability and thus higher franchise valuations than the European counterparts.     

You can read the full column below.  (Past

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California Sports Lawyer® Podcast with Jeremy Evans: How 2025 Reshaped College Sports for the Algorithm Era

This week on the California Sports Lawyer® Podcast, host Jeremy Evans unpacks how 2025 pushed college sports into the “algorithm era,” where control is shifting away from tradition and toward platforms, data, and contracts.

Jeremy breaks down how NIL has evolved from simple endorsement deals into valuation models and roster

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