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Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law a piece of legislation that will allow college athletes to profit from their names and images.

Newsom signed Senate Bill 206, otherwise known as the Fair Pay to Play Act, on Sept. 27 during a taping of basketball star LeBron James’ HBO show “The Shop.”

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.