NCAA to Pay $208 Million in Settlement for Cost-Of-Attendance Lawsuit
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 …