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Baumgartner backs Protect Act to preserve local college-sports model
Summary
Rep. Michael Baumgartner described his Protect Act as an effort to rein in commercialization of college athletics, preserve small-college and Olympic-sport opportunities, and protect local economic ties to university athletics in Eastern Washington.
On Spokane County Spotlight, Rep. Michael Baumgartner outlined a legislative effort he described as the "Protect Act," aimed at preserving what he called the traditional and community-serving model of college athletics.
"It tries to look at a fiscally responsible model for college sports that maintains what's good for our local communities and avoids what I would…
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