President Donald Trump stepped into Washington’s long-running fight over college athletics and helped remove one of the biggest obstacles standing in the way of a federal solution.
But after Trump helped bring two of college football’s most powerful conferences into the fold, a Republican senator with unusually deep ties to the sport could still stop the legislation in its tracks.
Former Auburn football coach Sen. Tommy Tuberville is resisting the Protect College Sports Act being pushed by Sen. Ted Cruz, arguing that Washington is about to replace one broken system with an enormous new federal bureaucracy.
