NCAA member schools can compensate players across all sports beginning July 1, according to approval issued by U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken.

The landscape of college sports has been altered forever. For the first time in the history of collegiate athletics, student-athletes will soon become eligible to be directly paid by their schools.

The $2.8 billion NCAA settlement is being touted as a path to stability for college sports, clearing the way for schools to pay their athletes within certain parameters