Richard Blumenthal: “Especially if they're offering favors or food or visits to their rooms.”

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…

Sen. Blackburn and I will fight as long and hard as necessary to pass this bill.

“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.”

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