Collegiate Athlete Pay Will Kill Teams, Educational Groups Say

The American Council on Education and 12 other educational organizations urged the Third Circuit to overturn a ruling that Division I student-athletes may be entitled to pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act, saying it would cause the shutdown of many athletic programs.

If the student athletes prevail in their suit filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the additional costs borne by colleges “would make fielding teams in most sports cost-prohibitive for all but a handful of athletics departments,” the groups said in a friend of the court brief filed Tuesday in the US ...