During a Senate hearing, NCAA President Charlie Baker shifted the focus of college sports’ need for federal legislation away from regulating how athletes can be compensated for their fame to the looming possibility of the players being deemed employees of their schools.
FILE - NCAA president Charlie Baker speaks during the NCAA Convention, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, in San Antonio. Baker is expected to testify in front of a Senate committee next week during the 10th hearing on Capitol Hill over the last three years on college sports.
Several bills have been introduced or made public, including a few bipartisan efforts in recent months, but nothing has gained traction.to the collegiate model have emerged that threaten to force schools and conferences that compete in the highest levels of the NCAA into a professional-sports style revenue sharing of the billions in media rights revenue with football and basketball players whose sports drive those contracts.
Petitti, who became Big Ten commissioner earlier this year after a long career as a television and Major League Baseball executive, said his schools are open to providing even more benefits directly to the athletes.
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