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California will allow college athletes to profit from endorsements under bill signed by Newsom

[LATIMES] Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that will allow Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, athletes to earn money from the use of their names, images and likenesses, despite warnings from the National Collegiate Athletic Assn. that the measure would upend amateur sports.

Senate Bill 206 by Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) garnered national attention, with athletes including NBA stars LeBron James and Draymond Green lauding the California effort to give college athletes a share of the windfall they help create for their universities and NCAA. The bill passed the state Legislature unanimously.

Newsom signed the bill on an episode of Uninterrupted’s talk show "The Shop" with James, WNBA’s Diana Taurasi and former UCLA basketball player Ed O’Bannon, saying the new law addresses a "major problem for the NCAA." The episode was recorded Friday but released Monday, according to Newsom’s office.

Posted by Fred 2019-10-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 It's simple, if they get paid, they aren't college athletes, they're professionals and every california team is no longer in the NCAA.

Posted by Silentbrick 2019-10-01 00:49|| 2019-10-01 00:49|| Front Page Top

#2 A close look might reveal players are already getting indirect compensation and have been for many years.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-01 02:04|| 2019-10-01 02:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Boy Guv smells tax revenue.

Posted by Lex 2019-10-01 02:54|| 2019-10-01 02:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Beso, you could look at this from the moon without a telescope and see that they've always been getting paid.

Posted by AlanC 2019-10-01 08:46|| 2019-10-01 08:46|| Front Page Top

#5 You can also see teams who over do it, get caught and have to set out a season. Alumni are some of the worst abusers about giving perks to "help" recruiting. If they are going to openly let the players go pro the should let the teams have stock holders and such.

Posted by Clyde Dribble8052 2019-10-01 08:53|| 2019-10-01 08:53|| Front Page Top

#6 If they are going to openly let the players go pro the should let the teams have stock holders and such.

And no more public money.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-10-01 12:39|| 2019-10-01 12:39|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't understand how a new California law can change NCAA rules. And if the athletes, their teams and colleges violate NCAA rules they will be disqualified. So is Newsom creating his own California College Athletic Association?

I agree that there is some hypocrisy to denying college athletes get paid, one way or another. But if Newsom is behind something like this I automatically assume that somehow it must be wrong.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-10-01 12:57|| 2019-10-01 12:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Alumni are some of the worst abusers about giving perks to "help" recruiting.
A football lineman at University of Oklahoma, who later went pro, remarked that he had a "part-time student job guarding a farmer's empty field -- so he drove out there with his textbooks and studied the listed hours".

Posted by magpie 2019-10-01 18:04|| 2019-10-01 18:04|| Front Page Top

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