🏅Here’s how MAGA policies are already shaping college sports

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Donald Trump’s impact is already being felt in many aspects of society. But college sports? Yeah, really. In fact, the Republican party is using college sports as a means for sorting out their own political differences — almost like a proxy battle of sorts between two sides of the MAGA movement. The latest bills introduced to the Texas state legislature spell out these differences quite clearly.

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A few weeks ago two very important bills were introduced to the Texas state legislature: SB 1390 and HB 3100. They were basically the same bill (one for the Senate, one for the House) trying to accomplish the same thing: Cap the number of athletic public school scholarships offered to international student-athletes.

The bills are short if you want to read them yourself, but here’s the important part of each:

“For each intercollegiate athletic program, an institution of higher education may not award for an academic year to students who are citizens of a foreign country more than 25 percent of the athletic scholarships, grants, or similar financial assistance conditioned on the student’s participation in the program that are available for the program for that academic year.”

So essentially, a 25% cap on taking international students into public schools’ athletics program. What is this trying to accomplish?

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