President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order establishing national standards for name, image and likeness initiatives, CBS News reports. Last week, members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced an amended bill called the SCORE Act (Student Compensation and Opportunity through Rights and Endorsements), aiming to “protect the name, image, and likeness rights of student-athletes to promote fair compensation concerning intercollegiate athletics, and for other purposes.”
The bill could open the door for federal standards for NIL legislation, superseding the current state laws that provide guidance on player compensation.
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said Wednesday during an appearance on “SEC This Morning” that he had no knowledge of a pending executive order.
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“The President clearly has an interest in sports, big picture, has an interest in college sports,” Sankey said. “He has been at our games. The notion of an executive order has been mentioned before. There were some reports of a commission or an executive order back to like, April, I think, is when that started to bubble. So we’ll wait and see … I don’t have any inside information about what generated those reports late last evening.”
Trump has shown a keen interest in college athletics in the early months of his second term. In May, reports emerged that Trump intended to create a college sports commission, headed by…
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