Supreme Court hits NCAA with full-court press in player compensation case

The Supreme Court on Wednesday hit the NCAA with a full-court press in a case that could decide the future of whether and how student-athletes are compensated.

Nearly every justice found fault with the league’s strict limitations on how colleges can award educational benefits as they grilled attorneys during nearly two hours of oral arguments. The case, which the court accepted in December, concerns the NCAA’s claim that the “student-athlete” status of players is threatened by an appeals court ruling that the league’s control over educational compensation violates antitrust law.