
Tennessee is dropping $280 million on a hotel and entertainment district next to its stadium while the coalition pushing the Protect College Sports Act, Ted Cruz, Nick Saban, Pat McAfee, and now Deion Sanders, insists college athletes are the ones bankrupting the sport. Sam runs the receipts: Big Ten revenue near $1.5 billion, a $200 million Miami Nike deal, Ohio State's $54 million roster budget, and argues the anti-NIL push is really about restricting how much of that money reaches predominantly black rosters, sold to the public through a rotating cast of black faces, Jay-Z during the anthem protests, an HBCU player and Deion Sanders now. Colin Kaepernick's new memoir tour supplies the historical receipts on that pattern, plus audio of Robert Kraft admitting he organized other stadium owners to keep Macklemore off tour dates over his Palestine comments. Also covered: why Ben Johnson's Bears finally look like themselves in week one instead of a quarter of the way into the season.