Bill to set rules for college sports clears first procedural vote in US Senate

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The Senate voted 74-24 to advance a bipartisan bill from Sens. Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell setting national standards for college athlete compensation, clearing a procedural threshold requiring 60 votes. The measure would create a uniform NIL standard, grant the NCAA antitrust protections, set a five-year eligibility window, and bar professional athletes from competing in college sports.

The bill notably stays silent on whether athletes count as employees, a gap opponents say undermines labor rights. A competing House bill remains stalled after the Congressional Black Caucus, joined by the NAACP, rallied opposition tied to concerns over redistricting fights in Southern states.

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Seventy-four senators agreeing on anything these days is its own small miracle, right up until you notice the bill dodges the one question that actually decides who gets paid what. Calling athletes something other than employees while regulating their pay like it's a real job is the kind of straddle that pleases everybody at the signing ceremony and nobody at the negotiating table. The patchwork this bill promises to fix has a way of outliving the bills meant to fix it.

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