Cleared to earn money, college athletes get to explore their creative side

SMU defensive back Kazadi working on a painting at his apartment in Dallas. Photos: LM Otero/AP

Will Ulmer doesn’t have to hide anymore.

The Marshall offensive lineman, all six-foot-four (1.93m) and 300 pounds (136kg) of him, unleashed a year’s worth of energy in his first on-stage performance since the start of the pandemic, playing guitar and belting out songs in his Kentucky baritone for a modest crowd outside a Huntington ice cream store in West Virginia, the United States.