In January of 2015, the NCAA voted to let its major conferences broaden their definition of “college scholarship”—allowing them to give their athletes a small cost-of-attendance stipend for travel and other expenses, in addition to tuition and room and board. Now, thanks to a new $208 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit, some college athletes who played before those cost-of-attendance …
Rutgers University has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by former men’s basketball player Derrick Randall, who claimed he was “chronically and heinously targeted and abused, both physically and psychologically,” by former coach Mike Rice. Filed in federal court on Dec. 6, 2013, the lawsuit was settled April 7, according to court documents. The settlement came after …
General view of the NCAA logo. (Photo: Kirby Lee, USA TODAY Sports) 255 CONNECT TWEET 2 LINKEDIN COMMENT EMAIL MORE The NCAA and 11 major conferences on Friday night began the process of asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a recent ruling in which a federal district judge granted class-action status to a pair of lawsuits challenging the NCAA’s current limits on the …