apparently chastised me<\/a> for suggesting that everyone at ESPN supports the Protect College Sports Act, I don\u2019t believe that. <\/p>\nIt was not my intent to put everyone at ESPN in the same bucket, and I apologize if I created that impression. My point was and is that ESPN\u2019s corporate position seems to be that it supports the bill, as evidenced by the fact that two of its most prominent college football analysts (Nick Saban and Pat McAfee) have argued for its passage on GameDay without any real pushback by other panelists, by Disney\u2019s reported lobbying for the bill, and by the misguided decision to platform Cruz without offering a voice representing the other side.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a thought \u2014 they could have let Smith interview Cruz.<\/p>\n
Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) also opposes the Protect College Sports Act. I\u2019ll be interviewing him on Thursday morning, for a special edition of #PFTPM. <\/p>\n
I\u2019d love to chop it up with Stephen A., too. We agree on plenty of things. On the things we disagree, there\u2019s a chance that, through open and honest discourse, we\u2019d better understand each other\u2019s points of view. The country currently needs a lot more of that.<\/p>\n
The country does not need a federal law that \u201csaves\u201d college sports, in my opinion. College sports are doing just fine, and the system should be required to clean up its own mess without a federal bailout that artificially limits the compensation and freedom of the people who generate the vast majority of the revenue, while leaving unrestricted the ability of coaches to hopscotch the map in chase of their next bag of cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN has gotten its apparent wish. Partially, for now. The Senate has passed the Protect College Sports Act,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-849697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}