Whether college athletes should be compensated for the millions of dollars they bring in to universities around the nation, or just be happy to receive a \u201cfree\u201d education, has been a hot button topic for many years.<\/p>\n
Nothing, though, has been said about the fairness of capitalizing off the professional fame of those athletes once they leave college – until now.<\/p>\n
Celtic legend Bill Russell<\/strong> has plans to finally make the NCAA pay up.<\/p>\n It appears that the NCAA may be in violation this time. Former Boston Celtics great Bill Russell<\/strong> has filed a lawsuit against the NCAA, alleging that the intercollegiate sports governing association has profited from featuring his likeness in commercially sold videos without seeking his permission or offering compensation. Russell<\/strong> filed suit in a federal court in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whether college athletes should be compensated for the millions of dollars they bring in to universities around the nation, or just be happy to receive a \u201cfree\u201d education, has been a hot button topic for many years. Nothing, though, has been said about the fairness of capitalizing off the professional fame of those athletes once […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}