Ted Cruz: “Schools are going canceling programs every week. You're…”

“You've got people with six, seven years of playing time. You have virtually every athletics program in the country losing money and losing millions or even tens of millions of dollars. Schools are going canceling programs every week. You're seeing women's sports getting canceled. You're seeing Olympic sports getting canceled. You're seeing your favorite tennis getting canceled. That happened at Arkansas just a few weeks ago. And it is if we don't act, we are going to see much of college sports decimated and destroyed.” (01:00–01:08)

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