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Although the deadline for this year's AT writing competition has already passed, it's not too early to start planning for next year's! ESPN reports on an antitrust case filed last week on behalf of Division I-A football players and major-college basketball players. The suit against the NCAA is targeting the scholarship caps in place that do not fully cover the cost of attendance for many athletes.

The lawsuit applies to 144 colleges, so the 20,000 or so affected athletes would have been shorted a potential $117 million, an aggregate figure that represents the gap between the grant-in-aid and the official cost of attendance over the past four years.

Damages get trebled under antitrust law, pushing the potential penalty to $351 million.