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LSU point guard Jada Williams is rallying college athletes against a bipartisan bill that would centralize sports governance, insisting that players must be allowed to unionize and negotiate their own terms.
The Senate Commerce Committee has moved the Protect College Sports Act forward, but a group of top women’s basketball athletes — including Jada Williams, Oluchi Okananwa and Brooke Daniels — oppose the measure, arguing it undermines player rights and calling for a unionized framework.
A bipartisan bill aimed at tightening NCAA oversight has been pulled from the House agenda after outspoken criticism from female athletes who say the measure silences their voice.