College Athlete NIL Class Payments Would Favor Men, NCAA Argues

The proposed classes in a suit over college athletes’ name, image, and likeness compensation have a gender equity problem, vastly favoring men in damage payments, the National Collegiate Athletic Association argued Thursday before a federal judge in California.

Current and past players on men’s and women’s Division I teams moved in May to certify damage classes of college athletes in a proposed class action that challenges the NCAA’s restrictions on those rights. Football and men’s basketball, women’s basketball, and additional sports players would make up the three classes, with members of all groups competing between June 15, 2016 and the ...