NCAA member schools can compensate players across all sports beginning July 1, according to approval issued by U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken.

The settlement will allow schools for the first time to compensate student athletes for past and future commercial use of their names, images and likenesses.

The $2.8 billion NCAA settlement is being touted as a path to stability for college sports, clearing the way for schools to pay their athletes within certain parameters