'Here it's different because you have, essentially, the state stepping in to take punitive action, and that is your typical First Amendment scenario,' he said.Ĭal State Fullerton student-athlete Leilani Rios found herself in a situation similar to the wrestlers' in 2001. In those cases, he said, the organizations were within their legal boundaries in dismissing those athletes.
Zelezny cited the precedent set by similar instances in sports programs not receiving public money. Under the pseudonyms 'Nash' and 'Cal', Donahoe and Jordan appearednude, separately,and shot solo masturbation videos.