Posts tagged Sports
IP and the NCAA: A Bill That Could Change Everything

On any given day at a football practice at Sanford Stadium, home of the UGA Bulldog football team, starting quarterback Jake Fromm is photographed. His image, however, is not his own, but the property of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletes and athletic conferences across the country. Should Fromm decide to publicly endorse a new product on his Instagram page, a social media account that is specifically attached to his identity as an NCAA athlete, he would forgo his amateur status and endanger his college career.

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Converse: Back In The Game With A Putback

It’s 1976 and “Dr. J”, Julius Erving, is lacing up his sneakers, getting ready to cement himself as one of the greatest dunkers in basketball history. He’s got on a pair of black and white All-Star’s with the Converse star on either side and is about to take off from the free-throw line for one of the most memorable jams in Dunk Contest history (sorry, MJ). It was an indelible mark in basketball history and, for Converse, one of the peak moments during its rise to stardom.

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