In America, the winner takes all.

Chapter 158 "Proud Father and Son", NIL Rights
"What did you say?" Rice looked out of breath, as if he had been running on the plastic track for a long time, so that he was taking in big breaths when he spoke.

In fact, he hadn't gone anywhere before. This was purely due to the physical stress reaction caused by the huge shock in his heart.

"Hmm..." Ethan seemed hesitant.

"Are you going to watch me die alone? You should bless us." Lisa said from the side.

"Call daddy." She urged in a low voice.

Rice covered his face with his hands, not knowing how to respond.

"I am already three months pregnant. I will have a younger sister or younger brother early next year."

Rice clenched his hands into fists and his expression was tense, as if he was using all his strength to restrain himself. His expression was constantly changing from anger, despair, and loss, and finally returned to calm...

The first time he felt deceived and treated like a stupid pig, the second time he began to think about ways and plans for revenge.

The third time, I thought of my mother again. Now that the matter has come to this, no matter what happens again, it will be harmful to my mother.

Therefore, the most correct way to deal with it is...

"Dad...Dad." Rice said softly.

I can only choose to forgive him.

"Eh." Ethan nodded.

This scene of father and son recognizing each other, apart from the fact that the ages of the two parties involved were a bit too young, was quite sensational in itself, so much so that the teammates standing nearby subconsciously applauded, and many of them had moved expressions on their faces.

"Great family love transcends age!" Flea's mother couldn't help but say at this time, and was even about to cry.

"A proud father and son!" Cooper's father couldn't help but say.

Only Elbert's expression was more complicated. He thought of himself back then, and maybe if he had said it back then, the outcome of the matter might have been completely different.

Why not be as brave as Ethan?

But then I thought about it, if that thing had landed softly, I might not have transferred to another school, let alone the honors I have now.He didn't feel particularly regretful.

Why are these people crying?Ethan felt confused and felt that the reactions of the people around him were a little abnormal.

"I suggest that the father and son hug each other on the spot." Someone else suggested.

Finally, with the encouragement of everyone, Rice took the initiative to stand up, hugged Ethan, and then the two of them raised their hands together.

The crowd burst into warm applause!Many people were cheering and celebrating.

If this matter were placed in the vast rural areas of the Midwestern United States, or in the redneck farms of Texas, Ethan would probably have been shot by this time.

But in Los Angeles, the "metropolis" on the West Coast, which prides itself on being progressive, open, and a deep blue territory, the situation is completely different.

Although Ethan is not involved in human affairs, although Ethan has been deceiving Rice from the beginning, although the object of Ethan's deception is actually his own teammate, although Ethan has torn down the Rice family.

But at least Ethan gained the freedom to love!

"Am I the only one who thinks it's ridiculous?" Rice's biological father shook his head at this time.

"Shut up! You shouldn't kill other people's rights to love and be loved!" Someone immediately refuted it.

"This is not something to be ashamed of, but a great spirit worthy of praise, encouragement, and pride. Ethan and Rice should not hide it, but should be generous. I suggest that the school should also take this matter as a matter of pride. Promote your deeds!”

"Proud father and son!"

The flea's mother began to cheer.

Rice also looked at everyone and couldn't help but said: "Has no one ever considered my feelings?"

"Isn't it something to be proud of having a father like Ethan?" said a parent of a student.

"Uh..." Rice found it difficult to refute for a while.

On the other side, Ethan fell into speculation.In the past, you could play the "Magic Card" when dealing with extremely conservative people, but now you can play the "True Love Card" when dealing with extremely open-minded people...

There are really more and more props in my deck.

A drama of father and son recognition finally came to an end with the cheers of everyone.Ethan and Lisa chose to go home alone.

In addition to Rice, Mia should also know.

"I've taken care of Rice, and I'll leave Mia to you," said Ethan, who was driving the car.

"I have her grandson in my belly, why is she still beating me?" Lisa was not afraid.

I hope you can stay in such a relaxed state for a while.

The two returned home in the evening and waited until Mia came home from get off work in the evening.

"Lisa? Why are you here!" Mia looked a little surprised.

"Mia, I have something to tell you." Lisa asked Mia to sit opposite her.

"You have to sit still...I'm pregnant." Lisa said cautiously.

Mia was stunned, and a smile suddenly appeared on her face.

"This is a good thing! Congratulations, Lisa. Can you tell me about the father of the child?" Mia suddenly asked.

"Of course... you can." Lisa nodded. She just wanted to tell Mia who the father of the child was.

"he is……"

"Wait, don't say anything yet, let me guess. Harrison Ford?"

"No."

"Is that Kevin Scottner?"

"Not at all."

"Is it Pierce Brosnan?"

"Not at all."

Mia named many names in succession, all of which were big-name male movie stars who had been famous for a long time.

"In that case, then don't tell me, this is your privacy after all." Mia shook her head.

"No, you must know the identity of the child's father. The child's father is related to you."

"Is it related to me?" Mia was speechless.

"What's the meaning."

"The father of the child..." Lisa turned to look at Ethan, who was sitting aside and remained silent.

"It's your son."

"Ah?" Mia stood up suddenly and looked at Ethan.

"I...I was just joking, why do you still take it seriously?"

"Are you really pregnant?" Mia asked repeatedly.

Lisa nodded.

"Oh, God." Mia tilted her head back, quite speechless.

After being silent for half a minute, Mia raised her head again.

"Lisa, I will be your mother from now on." She suppressed a smile.

Compared to Rice, Mia obviously accepted it faster. After all, Rice has an extra wild father, while Mia just has an extra wild daughter-in-law. Besides, Lisa is a rich woman.

If I think about it carefully, I'm not so accepting.

"But one thing, Catherine..." Mia paused.

She had raised Catherine since childhood, and Lisa was her best friend. It could be said that the palms and backs of her hands were full of flesh.

"I don't mind if we all live together in the future!" Lisa immediately raised her hand and expressed her attitude again.

"As long as Katherine is okay with it! I don't have any problem with that."

The two women looked at Ethan together at this time.

"The opportunity is given to you, it depends on whether you can grasp it Ethan." Mia said.

·
Ethan was sitting in the living room, listening to the two women busy in the kitchen. They were actually exchanging parenting experiences and recipes for mothers. Mia also taught Lisa her usual taste preferences...

From another perspective, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is really enviable.

And Ethan was more thinking about how to tell Catherine about this.

"Mia's best friend Lisa is pregnant. The baby is mine. She took the initiative to seduce me. I'm sorry I couldn't hold it back!"

"Catherine, bless us, Lisa is pregnant before you!"

"Catherine, I love you, but I also love Lisa, and I already have a love affair with her."

It seems a little embarrassing no matter how you say it.

·
"Congratulations. Starting today, you will leave the high school campus. The road ahead is still broad. I wish you all a wonderful college life!" After Principal John delivered his speech, the graduates threw their doctoral hats into the sky.

Ethan watched all his teammates put on their bachelor's uniforms, feeling somewhat emotional that they were still teammates yesterday.Tomorrow everyone will go their separate ways, and we won't see each other very often in the future.

"We are waiting for you in next year's NCAA." Flea said.

Ethan nodded.Contrary to the teammates around him, the "main force" of the cheerleading team did not suffer much loss.

Sarah chose to repeat a grade because of poor grades.

Jennifer, I was originally in the same class as myself.

As for Amy and Naomi, two wealthy daughters, they had been busy with their homework and had not participated in cheerleading activities.

At the beginning of the next school year, the cheerleading team has a very neat lineup.

"If last year's BHHS football team was a Galactico, then next year's cheerleading team will be a Galactico." Rice tried to say next to Ethan.

"Ethan, what will the football lineup be like next year?" Albert said.

Now that everyone in the team knows that Thomas will not coach next year, the selection of the lineup now falls entirely on Ethan's shoulders.

"Now that the Normans have achieved good results, there is no shortage of students. They can be selected from the echelon. There are also rugby summer camps during the summer, and some good prospects can also be screened out." Ethan responded.

If a school is compared to a sports club, last year's "signing" strategy was to spend heavily on players.After winning many championships, this year we can use our reputation to obtain high-quality students to build a complete youth training system.

Signings are a blood transfusion.

Youth training is blood building.

It’s clear which one is more important.

As for the cheerleading team, Ethan certainly hopes that the cheerleading team will also get more attention.

There are many schools that have become famous based on certain sports, but there has never been a school that has become famous based on cheerleading.

Ethan felt that he could give it a try.

·
Summer vacation is here as promised, and Ethan arrived at the airport early that morning.

At the airport exit, Ethan saw Catherine dragging her suitcase.

Compared with before, she was obviously more dressed up. There was a young boy walking with her, who looked tall and tall.He is probably a classmate of Catherine who returned to Los Angeles with Catherine.

Catherine saw Ethan at this time, and immediately ran over, and the two hugged across the railing: "Let me introduce to you, this is my boyfriend."

Catherine introduced the other party.

Ethan and the young man nodded.

There is no doubt that Catherine is more beautiful at this time, which naturally attracts the attention of more men of the same age. She is also the main force of the volleyball team and a top student. No matter how you look at it, she is extremely popular.

Ethan took Catherine's luggage and the two came to the parking lot together.

"Of course I am very popular. I have joined three sororities. Societies are all vying to invite me." Catherine answered in the car.

She asked Ethan to open the carport, the howling wind blew her hair, and her profile looked like an angel.

"Does your school have hostess volunteer groups that recruit athletes? Or an elite cheerleading team?" Ethan couldn't help but ask at this time.

"As far as I know, there is no hostess group in the Yale athletic department. Yale College does have a Yale Women's League, which is responsible for serving as hostesses when receiving foreign guests and organizing on-campus activities. As for the elite cheerleading squad, there doesn't seem to be one. Yale’s cheerleading squad is very small, and people don’t pay much attention to it,” Catherine explained.

To a certain extent, the two groups Ethan mentioned can directly reflect the "ethos" of a school.

As an Ivy League school with a long history in New England, Yale has a relatively conservative school spirit. Even the cheerleading uniforms are long-sleeved and high-collared.

It’s not that Yale is a saint per capita, it’s just that the popular things are different.

When Mia returned home in the evening, she immediately took out several travel brochures, including Hawaii and Samoa, Italy and Greece in Europe, Thailand and Phuket in Asia, all of which are tourist attractions.

"This time I will sponsor you two to have fun outside and relax. By the way...Katherine, please come on," Mia said secretly.

"Mia, are you so anxious to be a grandmother?" Catherine was shy.

"Otherwise, you two will only get busier and busier in the future. Now is a good opportunity." Mia said.

She could see that both Catherine and Ethan were young people with revengeful ideals, and now was the best time to have children.

Catherine lightly kicked Ethan.

"Mia is worried." Catherine picked up the cup and drank water.

·
Three days later, Bali.

Ethan was lying on the deck chair, seemingly looking at the picturesque coastline, and his ears were particularly quiet. This was a villa facing the sea, the scenery was very quiet, and no one was disturbing it.

In the swimming pool in front of her, Catherine swam slowly, the water waves gently rippling...

"Wow!" She walked out of the swimming pool, wiped the water drops on her body with a bath towel, and finally took off her swimming cap, with her long hair hanging loosely.

Catherine looked at Ethan who was wearing sunglasses but had no reaction at all, walked over quietly and took off his sunglasses.

Sure enough, Ethan closed his eyes and was taking a nap.

Catherine gently shook Ethan awake.

"You have rested for two hours, it's time to work." Catherine sat astride, facing Ethan.

Ethan glanced at the clock next to him.

What two hours? It's obviously only 20 minutes.

There were dark circles on his face at this time, and he didn't look like he had rested well.

"Catherine, do you want to go out for a walk this afternoon? It seems like we haven't gone out since we came here," Ethan said.

The so-called travel is to create a human in a beautiful place, and it is non-stop. Ethan's sleep time in the past few days has not exceeded 9 hours in total.

Even a racecourse can't use stallions like this, right?

"What's there to see? They're all the same scenery and islands." Catherine came down, took off Ethan's beach shorts, and leaned her head closer.

Although Ethan's consciousness is not ready to surrender to the enemy, this aspect is not managed by the advanced consciousness in the brain, but by the hypothalamus.

"Here we go!" Catherine stepped on the edge of the recliner with her feet and slowly touched down.

At this time, Ethan noticed a black tattoo on Catherine's right ankle.

I didn't pay much attention to it before, but now that I looked at it, I realized that it was actually my own name in cursive script.

"This way I will take you with me wherever I go." Catherine hugged Ethan.

·
In the evening, Ethan finally got to dinner time.

"You'd better take a look at these two things." Ethan handed over the two documents he had put in the suitcase.

One is the NCAA's Articles of Association, which is hundreds of pages thick, like a book.The other is a combined volume of two antitrust acts.

"What do you want to do?" Catherine was stunned and frowned slightly.

"We found evidence that the NCAA violated antitrust laws." Ethan couldn't help but say.

Besides Ethan really needing someone to read between the lines, he also wanted to give Catherine something to do.

"You are too difficult for me. I haven't entered law school yet." Catherine laughed.

"Although the NCAA modifies its charter every year, some basic provisions will not change, and antitrust laws have long existed." Ethan said.

In other words, loopholes have always been there, but it was not publicly raised until 24 (2019), stemming from a very ordinary lawsuit.

"It doesn't matter if you can't find it, just treat it as...a legal practice." Ethan explained this way.

"Do you know where the loophole is?" Catherine couldn't help but ask.

"Of course, there is indeed a loophole, and I know what the loophole is. It just depends on whether you can find it." Ethan said.

"You want to play word games with me? I accept this challenge. If what you said really exists and I really haven't found it, I will follow your arrangements for the second half of the trip, but if I win... you don't I want to get out of bed!" Catherine said with a wicked smile.

"Deal." Ethan agreed.

That night, Catherine stayed up late reading...

At dawn the next day, Ethan was woken up by Catherine.

"I think I found the problem you mentioned." Catherine looked very excited at this time and showed Ethan a few pages in the charter.Several sentences have been marked by her.

"There is no question that the NCAA's rules are controversial because they are more restrictive than federal law on 'amateur athletes.' These athletes still have the right to use their name, image and likeness (NIL). .”

"You won this contest." Ethan nodded.

Unexpectedly, Catherine found the problem with the NCAA in just one night.

NIl rights are the core point.

In other words, when an athlete is free to use his or her name, image, and likeness, he or she can appear in any product endorsement.

It can be said that since 2019, the NCAA has lost this restriction.

In the past two years, many college athletes have relied on this clause to earn more than six or even seven figures in annual income.

"But so what if you find a loophole? You don't really want to use this to defeat the opponent, right? This is impossible, and time alone is not enough. You need 3 years, 5 years, 7 years or even longer, and more Needless to say, energy and financial resources." Catherine sat astride and looked down at Ethan.

"Of course this is just a word game." Ethan shook his head.

NIL is just one part of it.

"Then the game is over now, I win." Catherine took out a pair of silver bracelets from under the pillow...

"You stay here for the remaining few days and you are not allowed to go anywhere!"

(End of this chapter)