SAN JOSE — A federal judge has signaled he’s likely to award a large chunk of the $50 million requested by plaintiffs lawyers who prevailed in litigation against the NCAA, calling it possibly “the most significant antitrust case of the era.”

At a hearing Wednesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins called the groundbreaking case against the National Collegiate Athletic Association an “adventurous and risky lawsuit.”

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