Tag: name-image-likeness
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The Angle
If I am honest about it, it has always seemed a stretch to me that universities could financially benefit from their student athletes, without limit, in exchange for merely granting a scholarship. The guise for this logic was “amateur athletics”. This blog is not an attempt to fully explore the pros and cons of the…
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A New Era: NIL and college sports
What started with Ed O’Bannon (formerly a UCLA basketball athlete) when he sued the NCAA in 2009, ended in June 2021 when the US Supreme Court ruled that the NCAA cannot bar athletes from earning money from their “name, image or likeness”. Except this may actually be closer to the beginning of change resulting from…
Money 4 Football 