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NEW YORK — A group of 16 former college basketball players sued the National Collegiate Athletic Association Monday to recover some of the billions of dollars they say the organization earned on television rights and publicity from their games. The... Read More

WASHINGTON — A U.S. House committee approved a bill Thursday that would prevent student athletes from being categorized as employees of their universities. A National Labor Relations Board judge ruled in February that student athletes were university employees, thereby allowing... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department joined a lawsuit this week opposing the National Collegiate Athletics Association’s restrictions on student athletes transferring between schools. Called the “transfer eligibility rule,” it allows student-athletes to begin playing their sports immediately when they transfer... Read More

WASHINGTON — A Senate committee won agreement Tuesday from some college athletic officials that federal legislation might be needed to halt abuses of student athletes. They contribute to a $16-billion-a-year industry but often receive little compensation for their efforts and... Read More

In a unanimous decision Monday, the justices held the NCAA can’t enforce rules limiting education-related benefits — like computers and paid internships — that colleges offer to student athletes. The case doesn’t decide whether students can be paid salaries. Instead,... Read More

WASHINGTON — A majority of justices, representing both sides of the High Court’s ideological divide, appeared ready during oral arguments on Wednesday to allow college athletes to be compensated monetarily for their efforts. In doing so, they also signaled they... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — The NCAA and former college athletes are getting ready to play ball at the Supreme Court. With the March Madness basketball tournament ongoing, the high court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case about how colleges can... Read More

California lawmakers have advanced legislation allowing college athletes in the state to earn compensation for the use of their name, image or likeness, despite a thinly-veiled warning from the NCAA that such a move could keep those athletes out of... Read More