Ex-Players Denied in Likeness Suits, Against Networks, Licensing Companies and Conferences

A federal judge from the Middle District of Tennessee dismissed a class-action lawsuit in which 10 former college football and basketball players alleged that media and licensing companies, as well as several college sports conferences, were profiting from the use of their names and likenesses without their permission. In short, the court found that the same arguments that former college athletes used successfully in the Ed O'Bannon case do not apply in the instant case, where the defendants are