This past weekend, the college football season kicked off. On Saturday night, NBC had a huge ratings win in its telecast of Michigan vs. Notre Dame. With nearly five million viewers tuning in, ABC didn't do too poorly itself with coverage of Alabama vs. Louisville. What does it say that four years after a California federal judge granted victory to UCLA basketball star Ed O'Bannon in his antitrust class action alleging the Ncaa unlawfully restrains college athletes from licensing their names and images, collegiate athletics continues to be popular? That question will be heavily contested at a 10-day trial ...
Former Final Four most valuable player Ed O'Bannon says Lavar Ball's Junior Basketball Association is the answer for a whole host of high school hoopers, who simply don't give a crap about college. Lavar announced the league a little while back in December, touting it as an alternative for standout prep players who have graduated from high school, but don't want to go to college. O'Bannon is a longtime critic of the Ncaa, having...
- 4/1/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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