Senators and college officials on Wednesday urged swift action on a bipartisan measure that aims to overhaul a college athletics system they say hemorrhages money and hinders student-athletes — even as two powerful conferences said they would seek changes.
During a much-anticipated Senate Commerce Committee hearing, both the bill’s authors — Chair Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and ranking member Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. — spoke in dire terms about the trajectory of college athletics. Cantwell warned against “an arms race of money” and Cruz said “college athletics is being torn apart.”
