NCAA $2.8 Billion Deal Gets Appealed Over Title IX Issues (1)

The NCAA is already facing an appeal of the court-approved $2.8 billion antitrust settlement from a group of athletes who say the deal unfairly pays men more than women and doesn’t apply Title IX.

Current and former female-athlete objectors filed notice Wednesday that they would appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, hoping to overturn a federal trial judge’s June 6 approval of the settlement in which 90 percent of back damages will go to male athletes.

The appeal is the first sign of formal pushback that threatens to upend a settlement designed to provide former ...