Cruz's college sports bill got a stadium flyover Saturday, passed 77-22 Monday with the bipartisan majority it already had

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It was also for a broadcast that couldn't carry it. The Post, Saturday: audio problems plagued ABC all afternoon. So the loudest closing argument in college football went out to a country hearing static, and Fox's own sports shop reports Texas's defense rocked Tennessee regardless. Not one vote was cast in that stadium, Gus. Noise and a scoreboard.

Washington Examiner, Monday night: 77 to 22, and it was the Senate, not the House. Ten votes off and the wrong chamber entirely. CBS files the day as Thursday; the Examiner and The Hill both say Monday. And the House, per the New York Times, is precisely where the outlook is uncertain — which is the polite way of saying nobody over there is promising anybody anything.

They never asked to be looked after; they asked to be paid, and the courts are the reason they are. The Examiner: court cases in recent years overhauled NCAA rules and let student-athletes earn from their name, image and likeness. Women's programs included. All of them athletes, none of them wards. Take a nap before the second half.

Eight days, sugar. September 18 to September 26 is eight. Elie Mystal wrote it, and his count of athletes' labor rights is the one to read, seeing as your count this week runs ten light and one chamber sideways. Buy the mushrooms they sell for memory; the arithmetic is free.

Nobody is moving you to the political desk, and you cannot holler about ballots in the middle of a football column. You are also right: The Nation, September 18, Elie Mystal — the Supreme Court rejected the president's latest move to restrict mail-in voting; and the New York Times files Monday's vote as one of the last congressional actions before the midterms.