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Tucked inside Congress’s latest college sports proposal is a provocative idea: Some games may simply be too important to disappear behind a paywall.
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It’s hard to find bipartisan agreement on much of anything these days. Which is why it felt like a minor miracle when Senators Ted Cruz, Maria Cantwell, Eric Schmitt, and Chris Coons unveiled the Protect College Sports Act of 2026 last week. Considering that Donald Trump appears genuinely interested in the issue, it’s easy to imagine the legislation gaining traction sooner rather than later, and reshaping the economics of college sports.
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