Amendment Made To Protect College Sports Act Strengthens Safeguards For Non-Revenue Sports

Why this legal doctrine could doom college sports regulation attempts

Here's how a 5th Circuit ruling on a federal horse racing authority could mean trouble for the Protect College Sports Act and other college athletics bills.

Amendment Made To Protect College Sports Act Strengthens Safeguards For Non-Revenue Sports

By James Sutherland on SwimSwam A revised version of the Protect College Sports Act will require schools generating at least $80 million in annual athletic revenue to maintain current scholarship and roster levels for non-revenue sports. This is a notable change from the original version of the bill, which tied schools’ requirement of maintaining current scholarship and roster numbers in non-revenue sports to whether or not they opted in to pool…