Judge Backs College Athletes' Pay

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Federal judge approves $2.8B settlement, paving way for US colleges to pay athletes millions

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Federal judge approves $ 2.8B settlement, paving way for US colleges to pay athletes millions .

Deal includes approval for each school to share up to $20.5 million with athletes over the next year and $27 billion that will be paid over the.

next decade to thousands of former players who were barred from that revenue for years .

A rough guide of winners would include football and basketball stars at the biggest schools.

Losers figure to be at least some of the walk-ons and partial scholarship athletes whose spots are gone.

Also in limbo are Olympic sports many of those athletes play and that serve as the main pipeline for a U.S. team that has won the most medals at every Olympics since the downfall of the Soviet Union .

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