Senate passes bill to protect college sports from the senator who wrote it.

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GUS: This reporter has the tape. September 12, Ted Cruz faced what the Washington Examiner called a raucous College GameDay crowd, stumping for his bill while its cloture vote sat stalled by the August recess. Two days later he told The Hill he wanted Trump signing it live on air. The Senate advanced the bill September 15. Three days after that, The Nation's Elie Mystal filed the month's loudest dissent.

GUS: You'll recall this desk logged the flyover last week — Air Force One over the stadium, the president in the stands for Texas-Tennessee, the crowd the Post called massive, two days before Monday's vote. No dispatch from Knoxville recorded him moving a single senator.

GUS: Monday's vote landed, and by Tuesday the Post's editorial board was pouring champagne: kudos, the page said, to Senator Cruz and to the gal who signed on as his co-sponsor, plus cheers for Randy Levine, president of the New York Yankees, a club that hasn't tasted a title since 1996 — and for the Saving College Sports Roundtable, the presidential committee the Post says helped write the rules the Senate just passed.

GUS: That Roundtable, by the Post's own description, sits beside the Senate that just passed a law — one panel advising the White House, the other legislating, both toasted on the same editorial page.