NCAA Asks Supreme Court to Reinstate Athletic Scholarship Limits

The NCAA asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate caps on athletic scholarships that were struck down last year, telling the justices that the association itself, not “one federal judge” engaged in “judicial meddling” and “micromanagement,” should “define the character” of college sports.

The lower court rulings would “turn student-athletes into professionals, eradicating” the “decades-long hallmark of NCAA sports” and inviting “an endless string of antitrust lawsuits” while making “a single judge in California” the “superintendent” of eligibility, the conference says in its Supreme Court petition. “This is not how antitrust law should work, and especially for the NCAA.”

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