Compensating college athletes - Swedish PM out - First trans Olympian

The court's unanimous ruling today in NCAA v. Alston is actually a relatively narrow one that deals only with whether schools can give student-athletes education-related benefits, such as providing free laptops or access to internships as a condition of playing sports. But the case seems likely to throw open the doors to a broader challenge to the NCAA's requirement that student-athletes be unpaid amateurs.
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"The NCAA's business model would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry in America," wrote Justice Kavanaugh [in a concurring opinion]. For example, Kavanaugh wrote, restaurants could not agree to refuse to pay their cooks under the theory that consumers would prefer to eat food prepared by amateur chefs.
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Several states have already passed laws carving away at the NCAA's ban on giving athletes a share of the revenue derived from the use of their likenesses, and the NCAA indicated last year that it is reading the room and might changes its policy.