NCAA Sued by College Baseball Player Over Scholarship Cap (1)

Aug. 7, 2024, 4:46 PM UTCUpdated: Aug. 7, 2024, 6:28 PM UTC

The NCAA was sued by a former college baseball player who alleges the organization illegally caps the amount of scholarship money that schools can provide.

Riley Cornelio, who played baseball at Texas Christian University from 2019-22, alleges the NCAA and its member schools operate as a cartel by capping scholarship money at “artificially low levels” that results in wage fixing among horizontal competitors in a market for services, according to a complaint filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Colorado.

The NCAA is seeking to resolve other antitrust lawsuits with a $2.8 billion settlement proposed with ...

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