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By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and EDDIE PELLS<\/strong><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Senate negotiators worked Wednesday to resolve thorny differences with leaders of the Southeastern and Big Ten Conferences over revisions to a bill designed to regulate college sports that sponsors want a vote on before the chamber goes on summer break next week.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThose conversations are ongoing,\u201d said one of the bill\u2019s sponsors, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.<\/p>\n

Cruz and co-sponsor Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., are pushing to bring the Protect College Sports Act to a vote before Aug. 7, the last day the Senate meets before going on break. Senators return for the second half of September, before breaking for all of October \u2014 leaving little time remaining before the November midterms.<\/p>\n

A pair of documents outlining concessions the lawmakers have made in the negotiations were headlined by a $20 million-plus \u201cretention pool\u201d that schools could use to keep players from leaving. It would amount to a doubling of the revenue-sharing \u201csalary cap,\u201d which is currently set at $21.3 million for this school year.<\/p>\n

The conferences are seeking answers on whether the increase in revenue share would impact rules governing third-party payments to players, the likes of which are largely blamed for spiraling roster costs.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also the question of whether such an increase would comport with the House settlement \u2014 the $2.8 billion lawsuit settlement that dictates rules around revenue sharing. Jeffrey Kessler, the plaintiffs\u2019 attorney, has said he would need to see the language before weighing in on whether it impacts the settlement.<\/p>\n

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Absent from the documents was any mention of rewrites regarding antitrust protection or preemption of state laws. Those have been core requests surrounding legislation from virtually all the conferences and NCAA since Congress began this process.<\/p>\n

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Earlier this month, the SEC and Big Ten put out a paper outlining 10 \u201cCommon Sense Improvements\u201d for the PCSA. The first two\u2014 and three of the 10 \u2014 entries on their list dealt with those two issues.<\/p>\n

Other topics have been addressed in the negotiations, including adding flexibility to requirements over how many Olympic and women\u2019s sports programs some schools should have and relaxing language over conference expansion to allow leagues to grow to up to 19 teams.<\/p>\n

There has also been language designed to prohibit private equity investors from paying schools to form a super league, though the conferences could seek more refining to that language.<\/p>\n

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