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Depending on length of service in their sport, they continue to be a member of the players association. As such if their likeness is used they receive compensation. Alumni also can reach agreements outside of the players association for being included in things like sports cards and other memorabilia. Not sure how the use of their image by their sports are handled after career but the major difference is that the professional leagues have anti-trust exceptions. The NCAA and it's member schools do not. That is the biggest reason given by the judges that continue to find for the players in these court cases.

Didn't the NCAA require players to sign over their likeness as a condition to participating in NCAA sponsored sports?

You can claim they got ripped off or signing over your likeness as condition of playing is overreach, but they did have to sign something. Maybe that was just EA sports with the video games before it got cancelled, but I thought that was the NCAA as a whole.

Can honestly say this is the first year where I didn't even do a bracket and didn't watch a single second of March Madness

Do professional players get compensated for use of their NIL after they retire? Is this already covered in most professional contacts?

I agree, but I think the less chaos there is the harder it is for those big 2 to take advantage. Where there's mass chaos like now they can overcome that with money.

Troy is also ranked for the mid-week.

If this is successful, then Lorenzo Charles, Keith Smart, and Michael Jordan deserve way more than this kid.

We have cruised several times, and have not had a lot of issues with germ generated sickness, but it does happen. Being on a ship with lots of little kids or partying young people tends to make that a little riskier, though Disney seems to do a good job of germ control. Do pack some Imodium, as if you seek care for anything illness related you will be asked to quarantine in your room until symptoms clear. My wife gets seasick, but only had an issue once, when a large storm hit us in the Caribbean thirty some years ago. The newer ships are more stable and the cruise lines do a better job of routing around the storms now, so the only time she takes dramamine now is if we take a snorkeling tour or some other tour involving a smaller boat, though she does make sure to face forward where there is fresh air on the tenders if we are not docked, just to be safe.

Totally with you. All of this retroactive BS should lose in court. It's not like he was owed anything and it was withheld. The rules were different. When the minimum wage was raised from $3.40 an hour (yeah, I'm going back a long way), I did not get retroactive pay from my job at the discount department store for the prior years before the minimum wage was raised to whatever it was raised to. These cases should all be tossed. They won't be, but they should lose. Whether they will or not is a different story, but the should be tossed and/or lose.

Yes, these types of cases are a bit silly but as someone who lived within walking distance to Nova's campus for a few years, this guy absolutely has one of the better "they actually used my name image likeness excessively" arguments. Buildings plastered his shot everywhere and there were literal murals made of that moment. Not saying it's good enough to warrant any money but as Verne would say.... "Better than most"

I agree about burning it down, but the big 2 works very hard at exploiting everything better than anyone else, and crushing anyone who tries to promote any kind of equity for anyone else.

I want Judges to just start tossing these cases.