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Trial highlights NCAA changes already underway
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Sonny Vaccaro already feels like a winner, no matter how a federal judge rules in the antitrust lawsuit he helped bring against the NCAA. He believes college athletes are winners, too, now that universities are moving toward reforms that were barely being discussed before the joint pressures of lawsuits and union possibilities started to be felt in the highest level of college athletics. "In a sense we've won already," said Vaccaro, who recruited former UCLA basketball star Ed O'Bannon and others to bring the court case. "The Big 10 is now going to give four-year scholarships, Indiana has a bill of rights for athletes, and schools are expanding medical care.