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Against the backdrop of mounting legal and financial uncertainty in American collegiate athletics, a federal push to stabilize the sector is colliding with a Senate recess deadline.
President Donald Trump this week renewed pressure on Congress to pass the Protect College Sports Act, a bipartisan bill that would extend antitrust protections to the National Collegiate Athletic Association and create a uniform federal framework for Name, Image and Likeness compensation and the transfer portal.
White House push tied to Olympic pipeline Trump made the appeal Thursday evening at a White House celebration for more than 120 Team USA athletes, coaches and staff from the Milano Cortina Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
His argument rested on one number: the collegiate system produces 88% of Team USA's representatives in those Games, making it, in his framing, "the engine of American Olympic dominance." He said he would sign the bill at his desk immediately upon receipt.
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