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Supreme Court rules against NCAA in dispute over athlete compensation


The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that the NCAA can’t block payments to college athletes.

The Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s ruling to allow colleges the opportunity to offer Division I basketball and football players enhanced academic-related benefits, such as laptops, musical instruments and paid internships without a cap on compensation. Under current NCAA rules, athletes cannot be paid and retain eligibility; the NCAA has long defended this tenet as something essential to its enterprise.

The former athletes who sued the NCAA included former West Virginia football player Shawne Alston. They argued that capping education-related compensation was fundamentally unfair and violated federal antitrust principles.

This is a developing story. More coming.





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