More than a year after the two sides in the House v. NCAA case voted to settle, Judge Claudia Wilken approved the revised terms Friday evening. Schools will be able to directly pay players from their athletic department budgets for the 2025-26 school year,

The groundbreaking case leading to the transformation of college sports in the United States comes nearly five years after Arizona State swimmer Grant House and Oregon basketball player Sedona Prince filed a complaint against the NCAA and the five most powerful conferences alleging they were unfairly being denied of pay for use of their name,