Sen. Maria Cantwell warned her colleagues Wednesday that a bill heading to the House floor that would regulate college sports would solidify an unsustainable and growing gap between the natin’s biggest athletic conferences and everyone else.

In a letter to members of the Senate Commerce Committee, where Cantwell, D-Wash., is the ranking member, she references the SCORE Act, which the House is set to vote on next week.

The NCAA and its top conferences support the bill. It would provide limited antitrust exemption for the NCAA; override state laws governing paying players in favor of one national statute; and remove the possibility of athletes being considered employees of their schools.

Cantwell argued it would lock in a “distorted system” that would ultimately favor the Big Ten and Sout

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