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As Judge Claudia Wilken continued to shake her head in disapproval, the message was clear: The House v. NCAA settlement was not receiving preliminary approval Thursday night. For more than two hours on Thursday, plaintiffs’ attorneys, the NCAA’s attorney and objectors met with Wilken on a Zoom call. The date had been circled on calendars by college sports administrators for weeks. Wilken pushed back on the language centered around third-party NIL restrictions in the settlement. She expressed concern that the agreement would take away from the “large sums” of dollars currently going to athletes…