A court has granted the NCAA's request for a stay in the O'Bannon case, delaying the implementation of possible payments to athletes for use of their names, images and likenesses until an appeals court has made a ruling.
The NCAA says in a statement it is pleased with the decision of the 9th Circuit Court. If the motion had not been granted, NCAA member schools would have faced a decision Saturday on whether to start making the payments that U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken had included in her ruling for the plaintiffs in the federal antitrust lawsuit.
Former UCLA star Ed O'Bannon of Henderson sued the NCAA, claiming it illegally used the names, images and likenesses of college athletes without compensating them.
Wilken ruled that schools be allowed but not required to offer around $5,000 each year in deferred money to football and basketball players.
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