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Timeline: The road to name, image, likeness

1956 NCAA begins to allow student athletes to receive athletic scholarships, regardless of their academic ability or financial situation. 2004 Jeremy Bloom, a high school football and track star, was recruited to play football at Colorado. He had competed...

4SE: Apple

Apple Zack Van Amburg (head of worldwide video, Apple) Jamie Erlicht (head of worldwide video, Apple) Molly Thompson (head of documentaries and unscripted, Apple TV+) As far as tone-setters go, it’s hard to do any better than the success...

4SE: ESPN

ESPN Marsha Cooke (vice president and executive producer, ESPN Films) Brian Lockhart (senior vice president, original content and ESPN Films) Asked to identify a specific sports entertainment-related project or two that speaks to the innovative, industry-leading direction of ESPN,...

4SE: CAA

CAA Ted Chervin (founding partner and board member, ICM Partners) Lisa Joseph Metelus (board member and co-head of basketball, CAA) Dwyane Wade had a story to tell — he just didn’t know the best way...

4SE: Barstool Sports

Barstool Sports Dave Portnoy (founder and chief of content) Erika Ayers (CEO) Thirteen days after buying back the company he founded from Penn Entertainment, Dave Portnoy took to X (then known as Twitter) to issue a complaint...

4SE: Meadowlark Media

Meadowlark Media John Skipper (co-founder and CEO) Deirdre Fenton (executive director, unscripted) Carl Scott (executive director, audio) Former longtime ESPN boss John Skipper knows a thing or two about sports storytelling, having...

4SE: Wave Sports + Entertainment

Wave Sports + Entertainment Brian Verne (CEO) Wave Sports + Entertainment CEO Brian Verne took to LinkedIn over the summer to congratulate his team on an attention-seizing achievement: Two sports podcasts appearing in the top 10 in...

4SE: UTA

UTA Rich Paul (co-head, UTA Sports; founder and CEO Klutch Sports) Andrew Thau (COO, UTA; co-head, UTA Sports) Danny Barton (vice president of sports content, UTA) When Hollywood talent agency UTA acquired Rich Paul’s Klutch Sports in 2019,...

4SE: HBO

HBO Bentley Weiner (vice president, HBO Sports Documentaries) Bentley Weiner has been at HBO since 2000 and overseeing its sports documentary programming since 2017. Across that time, she’s been instrumental to maintaining the network’s reputation as the home for premier sports storytelling. ...

4SE: Boardwalk Pictures

Boardwalk Pictures Andrew Fried (CEO) Jon Patricof, co-founder and CEO of Athletes Unlimited, recently told SBJ that his budding organization is still working to get the word out about its existence. In partnering with Boardwalk Pictures,...