NCAA to allow Power 5 conferences to pay players in unprecedented agreement

For the first time in the history of college sports, the NCAA has agreed to allow its Power Five conferences to pay players directly.

Law firm Hagens Berman and Winston & Strawn LLP announced jointly with the NCAA and the Power Five conferences — the Big Ten, SEC, Pac-12, Big 12 and ACC — a "landmark antitrust class-action settlement" that will provide "billion of dollars in backpay damages and tens of billions of dollars in future revenue-sharing to college athletes." 

The revenue-sharing...