The National Labor Relations Board's Los Angeles region has determined there's "merit" in the "an unfair labor practice seeking employee recognition for USC football and basketball players," per Sportico's Libit. Further: "NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said the region’s findings were based on a determination that the private university, the Pac-12 and the NCAA have collectively 'maintained unlawful rules and unlawfully misclassified scholarship basketball and football players as mere ‘student-athletes’ rather than employees entitled to protections under our law.' [...] Unless the NCPA settles the matter with USC, the Pac-12 and the NCAA—which is considered unlikely—the case would next go before an administrative law judge. [...] The judge’s findings could then be appealed to the five-member national NLRB board." (link)