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Hello and welcome to The Excerpt. I'm Taylor Wilson. Today is Sunday, December 17th, 2023. The NCAA is facing a new antitrust lawsuit on behalf of student athletes seeking compensation.

It's the latest chapter in the ongoing saga. of student athletes seeking compensation.

It's the latest chapter in the ongoing saga over pay for play

and just how to fairly compensate athletes at the college level.

To dive deeper into this conversation,

I'm now joined by USA Today Sports Reporter, Steve Berkovitz.

Steve, thanks for hopping on the excerpt.

Thanks for having it beyond.

So Steve, I want to just start by looking at some of the recent and ongoing lawsuits involving the NCAA and this kind of pay-to-play concept.

There's a new suit against the NCAA and the Power Five conferences that challenges rules around player pay.

What's the crux of this case, Steve?

The basics of this is that they're challenging now the whole construct of pay for play,

the idea that athletes ought to be

compensated for providing athletic services to the university.

And there's another case going on specifically around NIL or name or name image and likeness.

We've talked about this here on the show before.

Can you break down what's at stake here, Steve?

Sure, so altogether there are really four pending lawsuits

that the NCAA has big concerns about.

So there's the pay for play case that's the most recent one.

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