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The Protect College Sports Act advanced out of the Senate Commerce Committee on a 19-9 vote, but the legislation co-authored by Sens.
Ted Cruz of Texas and Maria Cantwell of Washington is now entering what could be its defining — and most treacherous — stretch before Congress breaks for August recess.
The SEC and Big Ten, the two most powerful conferences in college athletics, have withheld their endorsement, and the gap between their demands and what Senate leaders have offered shows no sign of closing.
The Pressure Campaign and Its Limits New York Yankees president Randy Levine, who sits on President Donald Trump's college athletics roundtable, held a media call alongside Texas Tech Board of Regents Chairman Cody Campbell hours after the committee vote — a staging that signals how deliberately the bill's backers are managing the political narrative.
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