The Senate has passed a sweeping bipartisan bill that would regulate college sports, an industry that has been upended by skyrocketing athlete payments and near-unrestricted transfers between schools. If the House passes the bill, it would be 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. It would give the NCAA new authority over those rules and limited antitrust protections to enforce them. The bill is the product of more than a year of Senate negotiations.
