Play for No Pay: A Discussion of Name Image and Likeness in Non-Revenue Sports

This week Davey and Chris sit down with Will Boling and Emily Proud to discuss payment in college athletics and its collateral effects. Will Boling is a sports radio host on 104.5 the Zone in Nashville, TN as well as a play-by-play announcer for professional and collegiate track, women’s college basketball and college baseball. While attending the University of Tennessee, Will was a distance runner with the track team. Emily Proud is a sports reporter for the CBS Sports network. She covers college football, men's and women's college basketball as well as the NWSL and the WNBA. While attending Belmont University Emily was a member of the women’s soccer team. Davey and Chris were lucky to sit down and discuss their time as athletes in non-revenue programs as well as their reporting on the monumental shift in the college sports landscape that is Name Image and Likeness revenue. Research & Sources:   National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston 141 S.Ct. 2141, 594 U.S. 69, 210 L.Ed.2d 314 (2021) O'Bannon v. National Collegiate Athletic Association 802 F.3d 1049 (2015), cert. denied, 137 S. Ct. 277 (2016) Johnson v. The National Collegiate Athletic Association, No. 22-1223 (3d Cir. 2024)