The US Senate on Tuesday passed 'Protect College Sports Act', a sweeping bipartisan bill that to regulate college sports, in an attempt to end "chaos" in an industry that has been upended by skyrocketing athlete payments and near-unrestricted transfers between schools.
The process witnessed 77-22 vote to pass the legislation, marking the strongest effort yet by Congress to set national regulations governing payments to college athletes for their name, image and likeness and how often they can transfer. The Act would give the NCAA new authority over those rules and limited antitrust protections to enforce them.
