Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) handed down an unanimous ruling against the NCAA in the case of the NCAA vs Alston. For those who didn’t follow this case until now, the case boiled down to former West Virginia running back Shawne Alston’ and California basketball player Justine Hartman alleging that the when the NCAA alleging capped the educational costs a University could offer them as student athletes, the NCAA violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act that protects American consumers from monopolies.
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act is always the boogyman threat for the NCAA and other professional sports leagues in the US, but most professional sports leagues, like Major League Baseball, have some sort of written protection from the law.