Column: In landmark session, the California Legislature shows what progressive lawmaking looks like

The National Collegiate Athletic Assn., or NCAA, has strongly opposed the so-called Fair Pay to Play Act (SB 206). This bill would give student-athletes at California colleges and universities the right to be paid for the use of their “name, image or likeness,” say in highlight clips or video games. The NCAA threatened in June to bar California universities from NCAA championships if the measure passed. The Legislature saw this threat to keep such athletic mainstays as USC, Stanford and UCLA out of its championships as empty blustering, and passed the bill without a single vote in opposition.

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