[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 14 (Wednesday, January 21, 2026)]
[House]
[Pages H1157-H1158]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             COLLEGE SPORTS

  (Ms. STEVENS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. STEVENS. Mr. Speaker, after Monday's college football national 
championship, I rise to express my concern about the trend of private 
equity firms attempting to buy up college sports. These deals will be 
bad for athletes, students, and fans.
  We have seen this play before. Media corporations' pursuit of college 
football and basketball viewers created nonsensical conference 
realignment that destroyed the regional nature of

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college sport. For generations, the Big Ten was known as the Midwestern 
Conference. In recent decades, that identity has slowly been eroded as 
coastal schools were admitted in the name of more revenue and higher 
profits.
  Now private equity is looking to buy college sports revenue streams. 
If these deals are normalized, it is only a matter of time before 
private investors demand control over our university athletic 
departments. This creates the risk of further conference realignment, 
cutting nonrevenue sports, and expanding for-profit influence over 
universities.
  This is why I have sent a letter with my Republican colleagues to end 
the NCAA.

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