We're with O'Bannon here

If the NCAA has a heart or a conscience or, more likely, a fear of discovery, then this case needs to proceed any further:

O’Bannon case could be a game changer
Dan Wetzel
Yahoo! Sports

It’s a legal opinion that could have significant impact on the way the business of college athletics is conducted. At the very least, it should make the financial books, contracts and business deals of the NCAA, its conferences and individual schools public, in some cases, for the first time.

U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken denied the NCAA’s request Monday to dismiss a 2009 class-action lawsuit led by former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon over the use of former players’ likenesses in everything from video games to memorabilia to television rebroadcasts.

In green-lighting the case, O’Bannon’s attorneys can now begin the discovery process that may unlock how the business operates, which could have impact beyond this case. O’Bannon is one of several former athletes arguing that his one-year scholarship agreements never granted the NCAA use of his name and likeness in perpetuity...

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