Pacific Lutheran football student-athlete Jackson Hale, former Claremont McKenna men’s basketball student-athlete Connor Printz and former Lynchburg dual-sport athlete Chris Jennings have filed a class action antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA over the prohibition of athletic scholarships in DIII. From the suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California: “The NCAA has engaged in an ongoing conspiracy to fix the price of Division III athletic labor at zero by prohibiting every member of Division III, the NCAA’s largest division at more than 400 schools, from offering a single penny of athletic scholarship. … The Division III prohibition on athletic aid is undeniably a multi-conference agreement in Alston’s own taxonomy. Division III schools remain free to differentiate themselves along every dimension that does not fix the price of the labor that sustains the marquee recruiting tools that are their athletic programs.” (link)