153 NCAA rules had to be eliminated to clear the way for the House settlement. Numbers to know

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, image and likeness.

The settlement approved by U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken resolved three antitrust cases — House vs. NCAA, Carter vs. NCAA and Hubbard vs. NCAA — that became known collectively as the “House case.”

The class-action lawsuits contended the NCAA, ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC violated antitrust law by not providing benefits and compensation to athletes and restraining athletes’ ability to make money for endorsements and sponsorships.

Incremental gains won by athletes in previous lawsuits against the NCAA set the stage for the House settlement and the all-out professionalization of college sports. A look at key numbers associated with the case:

Athletes who played an NCAA sport between 2016-24 and could be eligible for back payments

Class members who submitted a claim form or updated their payment information, which represents approximately 26.2% of the 389,700.

Athletes who opted out of the settlement and could pursue their own remedies.

Back damages to be paid to current and former college athletes who were denied the opportunity to profit from the use of their NIL rights. The amount will be paid in $280 million installments over 10 years. The NCAA will use reserves and insurance to cover about 40% of the payments. The rest will be covered by the NCAA reducing its annual distributions to Division I schools.

Estimated amount of the $2.8 billion that will be paid in back damages to football and men’s and women’s basketball players in the power conferences.

The 2025-26 pool of money each Division I school can distribute in direct payments to athletes beginning July 1. The amount represents 22% of the average revenue generated by each school from the five defendant conferences and Notre Dame.

NCAA rules that had to be eliminated to allow schools to provide additional benefits to athletes under the settlement.

All Division I athletes will be required to report to their schools and the Deloitte clearinghouse any and all third-party NIL contracts with a total value of $600 or more, if payment occurs after July 1, 2025. The clearinghouse will determine whether the amount is commensurate with the athlete’s fair market value.

The widely accepted estimate by University of San Francisco sports economist Daniel Rascher of additional direct compensation athletes will receive over the next 10 years.

The estimated amount of damages faced by the NCAA and the five conferences if they avoided a settlement and lost at trial.

Plaintiffs attorneys’ request for legal fees. The figure is based on attorneys receiving 20% of the NIL settlement fund and 10% of the additional compensation settlement fund as well as an injunction relief award of $20 million paid by the defendants. That does not included about $9 million in expenses attorneys are claiming.

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FILE - TCU's Sedona Prince celebrates after her team's win over Louisville in the second round of the NCAA college basketball tournament in Fort Worth, Texas, Sunday, March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

LONDON (AP) — Greta Thunberg was arrested in central London on Tuesday while supporting pro-Palestinian activists who are staging a hunger strike to protest their imprisonment while awaiting trial on charges related to a series of earlier demonstrations.

The protest group Prisoners for Palestine shared a video showing the 22-year-old Swede holding a sign supporting the hunger strikers and their organization, known as Palestine Action. The British government earlier this year banned Palestine Action as a terrorist organization.

The protests were part of a larger demonstration in which two other activists sprayed red paint in front of an insurance company in the City of London, the area of central London known as hub of Britain’s financial services industry. Prisoners for Palestine says they targeted the insurer because it supports the Israel-linked defense firm Elbit Systems.

City of London police said a man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage. A third woman was later arrested on suspicion of supporting a banned organization. British police generally do not identify suspects by their names prior to their being charged.

Eight Palestine Action members have staged a hunger strike to protest their detention without bail as they await trial on a variety of charges related to earlier protests around the country.

The first two prisoners to join the protest have now been on hunger strike for 52 days and are at a “critical stage, where death is a real possibility,” Prisoners for Palestine said in a statement.

The British government has so far refused to intervene in the judicial process, saying questions about bail and detention are matters for the courts to decide.

The scene at Aspen Insurance at Plantation Place in the City of London, after two activists sprayed red paint over the front of the building, in support of the Palestine Action protesters on hunger strike in prison, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. (Shivansh Gupta/PA via AP)

The scene at Aspen Insurance at Plantation Place in the City of London, after two activists sprayed red paint over the front of the building, in support of the Palestine Action protesters on hunger strike in prison, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. (Shivansh Gupta/PA via AP)

The scene at Aspen Insurance at Plantation Place in the City of London, after two activists sprayed red paint over the front of the building, in support of the Palestine Action protesters on hunger strike in prison, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. (Shivansh Gupta/PA via AP)