The Illinois House on Saturday voted 95-18 to give student athletes the right to hire agents and market their names and images, for decades the singular domain.
For more than a century, college athletes have been mythologized as amateurs while laboring for colleges and universities that make hundreds of millions of dollars marketing them to sell tickets and merchandise.
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