Richard Blumenthal: “NHTSA has been an agency recently adrift, even aground.”

After all the years I’ve spent working on this issue, I could never for one minute trust the NCAA to police itself.

It’s illogical, illegal, intolerable — and that’s in effect what the court found.

“After all those horrific deaths and public outcry, we were told DHS was going to change,” he said. “Again and again, those promises were proven false.”

Despite my bipartisan amendment to increase conference access, the legislation still does not adequately promote vigorous competition among teams and conferences and instead preserves the exclusive club of the current Power Four membership…