The President and Congress seem to be looking into the NFL’s increasing use of streaming services, and this week’s schedule release did not help matters.  College sports featured some enforcement of over-the-Cap spending and revival of a major tennis program, although both are short-term solutions.  And there will be steroids galore in the Enhanced Games this week.

As mentioned a few weeks ago - prematurely - I will have an interesting announcement tomorrow and talk more about it in this space next week.  Stay tuned…

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The President said it last week: the NFL "could make a little less and let the people see it." Then the league released a schedule with even more streaming games. A Wednesday night Netflix game on Thanksgiving Eve. Three Christmas games. Nine international games across four continents. The inventory keeps growing, and the government is watching.

Meanwhile in college sports, the salary cap just got its first real enforcement test. An arbitrator ruled against 18 Nebraska football players whose deals were rejected for "warehousing" NIL money. But on May 27, Jeffrey Kessler is going to court to argue those deals shouldn't be regulated at all. And Arkansas just brought back the tennis programs it cut three weeks ago, funded by donors stepping in at the last minute. That's the future for non-revenue sports: survival by donation.

And then there's this: next weekend in Las Vegas, athletes will compete in swimming, track, weightlifting, and strongman while openly using performance-enhancing drugs. It's backed by Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr. I didn't think it would actually happen. It is.

This week's Sunday 7:

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