An NCAA settlement, which resolved three pending lawsuits, including one with a Stanford student-athlete, could change the economic landscape of college sports.
Athletes are at the forefront of advocacy for direct compensation. Some argued that issue disproportionately affects athletes from marginalized backgrounds.
The NCAA, which represents some 1,100 schools and more than 500,000 athletes, is no stranger to lawsuits. It has been in court off and on since the early 1980s defending the amateur athlete model at the heart of college athletics. House vs. the NCAA is a class-action lawsuit in the Northern District of California before Judge Claudia Wilken, whose previous rulings in NCAA cases paved the way for college athletes to profit from their fame and for schools to direct more money into their hands.
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