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Trump’s college-sports fix lands like a federal shakedown

Trump signed an executive order aimed at “stabilizing” college sports, but the real hook was a threat to cut off federal money from schools that do not comply. That immediately turned a messy athletics debate into another confrontation over presidential leverage and institutional coercion.

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Trump’s college-sports fix lands like a federal shakedown

Trump signed an executive order aimed at “stabilizing” college sports, but the real hook was a threat to cut off federal money from schools that do not comply. That immediately turned a messy athletics debate into another confrontation over presidential leverage and institutional coercion.

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Trump’s college-sports fix lands like a federal shakedown

Trump signed an executive order aimed at “stabilizing” college sports, but the real hook was a threat to cut off federal money from schools that do not comply. That immediately turned a messy athletics debate into another confrontation over presidential leverage and institutional coercion.

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