MAY 2: According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Pete Thamel, Sorsby has retained prestigious sports lawyer Jeffrey Kessler in an effort to keep his eligibility to play for Texas Tech this year. Kessler’s work spans the gamut of sports headlines. From the landmark antitrust cases that established the concept of free agency in the NFL to the NCAA v. Alston Supreme Court case that led to the ability for college athletes to be compensated through NIL to the USWNT’s successful efforts for equal pay to successful outcomes in both the “Bountygate” and “Deflategate” controversies, Kessler has been known to blaze trails as a litigator.
Schefter initially offered that, should Kessler not be successful in preserving Sorsby’s…