What does the NCAA Supreme Court ruling mean?
In a unanimous ruling on Monday, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of NCAA athletes against the NCAA that the NCAA's limits on the kinds of education-related payments schools can make to compensate athletes violate antitrust laws. The Supreme Court kept the NCAA's caps on non-education-related payments in place, however. What the ruling means is schools can compensate athletes not just with scholarships to pay for the cost of attendance, but can pay for things like computers, musical instruments, graduate programs and other education-related costs. Schools will also be able to fund internships, pay for study-abroad programs and offer other scholarships once an athlete has finished playing for a school.