NCAA leaders privately have agonized over the growing use of athlete’s images in commercial products, with one senior executive proposing to drop the term “student-athlete” after a half century of official use, according to ESPN. Former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon’s lawsuit from years ago against the NCAA for using his image initiated discover of [...]
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