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Democrats unveil effort to shield abortion, transgender patients BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN
year, was for just three DU players — Ben Bowen, Tyree Corbett and Tommy Bruner — but Shinesty supplied clothing to all the team members. “The athletic directors want to be at arm’s length” between athletes and potential sponsors, said Tim Thompson, NIL alumni coordinator for DU athletes. “NILs are being formed all over the country. These committees look for external opportunities for student-athletes.”
Colorado Democrats on March 9 unveiled a trio of bills aimed at ensuring abortion and genderaffirming care in Colorado isn’t subject to legal action initiated in other states, as well as reshaping health insurance regulations around the procedures and prohibiting deceptive advertising by anti-abortion pregnancy centers. The measures, which haven’t been introduced yet, come a year after the legislature passed a bill enshrining abortion access in state law. That happened just before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling protecting the right to an abortion without excessive government restriction. Since Roe was overturned, conservative areas of the country have passed abortion restrictions, leading to an influx of people coming to Colorado to terminate their pregnancies. Colorado has almost no abortion restrictions. Republican state legislatures and governors have also begun enacting laws limiting transgender care for young people. Republicans are likely to fight the Colorado bills, but they are in the minority in the legislature and have few tools to stop the policy changes.
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A behind-the-scenes photo of the three University of Denver collegiate athletes during their Name, Image, Likeness photo shoot COURTESY PHOTO with Shinesty.
Three student-athletes have Name, Image, Likeness deal with Colorado company BY BRUCE GOLDBERG SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
Members of the University of Denver men’s basketball team are more than just Pioneers — which is the nickname for all DU teams. They’re also pioneers.
The DU hoopsters have earned this title because they are first DU collegiate athletes to join the many college athletes nationwide who are cutting their own deals based on the lifting of Name, Image, Likeness compensation restrictions. The schools cannot make deals for the athletes. So nationwide, alumni and business people serve on their school’s NIL Collective, which acts as an intermediary to help the athletes make deals. The DU collective did so in the case of Shinesty. The deal, which occurred late last
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