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DOJ joins suit targeting NCAA athlete transfer restrictions
President Joe Biden’s administration signed onto a lawsuit challenging the NCAA’s authority over college athletes on Thursday‚ a significant development that further clouds the athletic giant’s prospects of scoring federal antitrust protection from Congress.
The Justice Department joined a lawsuit originally filed in December by a bipartisan group of state attorneys general seeking to overturn the NCAA’s eligibility restrictions on college athletes who transfer between schools. A federal...