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A bipartisan win for protecting college sports

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Post Editorial Board. (2026, September 29). A bipartisan win for protecting college sports. New York Post. https://nypost.com/2026/09/29/opinion/a-bipartisan-win-for-protecting-college-sports/

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Senators Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell successfully passed their bipartisan Protect College Sports bill through the Senate on Monday, aiming to establish national standards for college athletics and protect athletes' rights to profit from their name, image, and likeness (NIL). The bill seeks to address issues such as excessive litigation and bidding wars over top players by setting limits on transfers and tampering while granting some antitrust exemptions to the NCAA. Despite its imperfections, the legislation aims to balance commercial interests with maintaining a distinct difference between college and professional sports.

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The Senate passed the bipartisan Protect College Sports Act by a vote of 77 to 22 on Monday night. Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), the bill’s lead sponsors, aim for its quick passage in the House before the midterm elections. The act grants the NCAA limited antitrust immunity and establishes national standards for athlete compensation through Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) deals, while also setting eligibility rules and transfer limits to curb chaos in college sports. Despite support from the NCAA and several high-profile schools, critics like Senator Cory Booker argue it fails to address runaway spending issues and may disadvantage athletes. President Donald Trump has urged Congress to pass the bill before summer recess, saying he would sign it into law if it reaches his desk.

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The bill still needs to pass the House, and of course it’s imperfect, but it has real promise to end the nonstop litigation and over-the-top bidding wars launched when the Supreme Court in 2021 tossed key NCAA rules on antitrust grounds. asserted

Court → need → grounds

The old system had huge problems — not least, as Justice Brett Kavanaugh noted then, “the NCAA’s business model of using unpaid student athletes to generate billions of dollars in revenue for the colleges. asserted

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But what followed was ruinous, with stars transferring to the highest bidder multiple times and schools stinting on women’s and Olympic sports as they chased talent that would bring in the most revenue. asserted

that → follow → revenue

The bill protects a collegian’s right to collect from the sale of his or her Name, Image and Likeness while setting national standards for transfers, eligibility, tampering and so on, including limits on agents’ share of an athletes’ earnings. asserted

bill → protect → earnings

Yes, it gives the NCAA a partial antitrust exemption so it can’t get sued for enforcing eligibility and transfer limits and lets it limit coaches’ job-hopping rights, too — but keeping college sports different from the pros has to start somewhere. asserted

keeping → give → pros

Levine and his colleagues did crucial work in building centrist support for this legislation; let’s hope it can become law before a new Congress takes over and forces reform efforts back to the starting line. asserted

Congress → do → line

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