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Date: 8/11/2008
Category: Press Releases
NCPA-Backed Lawsuit Makes Over $445 Million Available to Athletes
  The settlement requires the NCAA to add $218 million to the Student-Athlete Opportunity Fund (SAOF) over the next 6 years. This will bring the estimated total to more than $445 million over this time period. College athletes can tap into this fund for expenses such as medical insurance premiums, parking fees, travel expenses home, and clothes....
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Date: 7/3/2007
Category: News
NCPA President Gives Deposition In Support of Lawsuit
  The NCPA continues to support White v. NCAA, the antitrust case against the NCAA in which the plaintiffs are challenging the NCAA's restrictions on athletics-based financial aid. ...
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Date: 2/23/2006
Category: Press Releases
The National College Players Association Helps Jump Start Class Action Lawsuit Against NCAA
  Los Angeles – The National College Players Association (NCPA), a group formed by the UCLA football team in 2001 announced today that it has helped bring forth a class action lawsuit against the NCAA....
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Date: 5/13/2004
Category: Press Releases
The NCAA will now allow universities to provide year-round health coverage for their athletes, including non-sports related injuries and/ sickness.
  (Los Angeles, CA) - The NCAA will now allow universities to provide year-round health coverage for their athletes, including non-sports related injuries and/ sickness. This victory for student-athletes comes just one month before the California Assembly is scheduled to vote on a law that would have given California universities the right to provide health coverage to their student-athletes without NCAA restrictions. Previously, the NCAA prohibited universities from covering student-athletes du...
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Date: 5/1/2004
Category: News
NCPA Not Satisfied With NCAA Changes
  The NCPA has called upon the NCAA to improve student-athletes health coverage and graduation rates and, with much pressure from California lawmakers, the NCAA has begun to respond. The NCAA has given universities the option to provide year-round health coverage for their athletes, including non-sports related injuries and/ sickness. It has also approved an incentive program that would reward universities that graduate a certain percentage of their student-athletes. ...
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