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Joel Dickson retweeted
College sports are not in chaos. What Ted Cruz is calling chaos is the predictable and overdue market correction after the NCAA spent decades suppressing athlete compensation, restricting mobility, and operating as a cartel. The real instability came from the amateurism rules that courts continue to dismantle. Athletes finally have leverage. That's not chaos. Also, programs are not going broke. They choose to pay coaches 8-figure salaries, construct lavish facilities, and run an arms race while using accounting that treats scholarships and facilities as “expenses” and then cries poverty. The same departments that claim insolvency somehow find tens of millions for the next head coach and the next weight room. Fuzzy math does not make voluntary spending a crisis that requires federal intervention. Professional leagues have long treated college sports as a free minor-league system. The NFL and NBA in particular have avoided the full cost of player development. That does not create an obligation for Congress to now reimpose restraints on the athletes who generate the value. Finally, Congress did not create this mess. The NCAA did. Decades of anti-competitive rules, aggressive enforcement against athletes, and refusal to adapt produced the legal losses and the patchwork of state NIL laws. The current environment is the consequence of that failure, not of congressional inaction. The Protect College Sports Act is not a solution. It grants limited antitrust immunity to the same entities that caused the problems, imposes artificial limits on transfers that restrict athlete mobility, creates mechanisms that tilt leverage back toward schools, and preempts stronger state protections. Very little in the bill prioritizes the athletes who built the product. Passing it would not “fix” college sports. It would simply re-entrench the power structure that athletes have finally begun to challenge. Thanks for reading my op-ed.
College sports are in chaos. Programs are going broke. Women’s and Olympic sports are disappearing. And college football is becoming a mini-NFL controlled by a handful of schools. Congress helped create this mess. Now Congress must pass the bipartisan Protect College Sports Act to fix it.
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Pamela Price lost her 2026 comeback primary, But she still got 91,165 votes — over 25% of the electorate. That number is disgusting. After everything she did in office, nearly 100,000 people in Alameda County still thought she deserved another shot at being District Attorney. That should tell you how dangerous it is when her record isn’t constantly and aggressively exposed. This is who those voters were willing to support: She gave a sweetheart plea deal to Dijon Holifield, a man charged with FOUR separate MURDERS in a six-week crime spree. The case was so strong it included DNA, ballistics, and 26 witnesses. Her own lead prosecutor resigned in protest, saying Price “gave them the deal of a lifetime and he’ll be out next year,” while the mothers of the victims were left shattered. She removed special circumstances from the men who killed toddler Jasper Wu in a freeway gang shootout. An internal email later showed she was exploring “non-carceral accountability” for his killers. When the child’s family and the Asian-American community demanded to meet with her, she refused and hid behind a statement claiming it was impossible for the DA to meet with every victim. She hired her BOYFRIEND, Antwon Cloird, at $115,000 in taxpayer money and gave him authority to recommend which prisoners should be released early. Cloird had previously been under an active FBI investigation for allegedly extorting Richmond businesses, with witnesses stating he told owners they had to “pay to play.” Price defended the hire by calling critics racist. Her office let the statute of limitations expire on over 1,000 misdemeanor CASES, including domestic violence cases. Victims were denied justice not because of some progressive policy, but because her administration was so incompetent and dysfunctional that cases simply died on the vine. Experienced prosecutors resigned in droves. One wrote that she could no longer “fulfill my legal and ethical duties as a prosecutor under this administration.” Another said she could not “adequately and ethically protect the rights of victims.” She was already recalled by 62.9% of voters in 2024. The fact that she still pulled over 91,000 votes in 2026 proves that too many people either don’t know what she actually did or have already started to forget. This account exists so that never happens again. The full dossier with every case, every resignation letter, every lawsuit, and every piece of evidence is at PamelaPriceFiles.com Read it. Share it. Because 25% support for this record is 25% too much.
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Joel Dickson retweeted
So far, incumbent @AlamedaCountyDA Ursula Jones Dickson has 64% of vote, her predecessor Pamela Price @thepeoplesda, who was recalled in 2024, has 24% & family-law attorney Gopal Krishan nearly 12%
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Joel Dickson retweeted
4 tax hikes in just 3 years isn’t a standard request—it’s aggressive taxation overreach. 🛑 Oakland residents and local businesses are tapped out. City Hall needs to manage its budget, not hand us another bill. Vote NO on Measure E! #NoOnMeasureE #Oakland
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Joel Dickson retweeted
People close to Xavier Becerra are facing prison time for allegedly stealing his campaign funds. I pressed him about the amount of money he knew was coming out of the account. How can taxpayers be sure he won't be swindled with their money as governor? "Look at my record"
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Joel Dickson retweeted
Excited for the 2026 Mustangs and the challenges that are in front of us. @ACCFootball @SMUFB
Your fall weekend plans are finalized.
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It’s official ⁦@DakotaDickson56⁩ is a SMU Mustang! Freshman year has begun
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Coaches of NCAA non-revenue Olympic sports: ​Schools are already using NIL & rev-share costs as the excuse to cut programs—the same playbook used 4-5 years ago. ​So, Stand up. Speak up. Prepare to lawyer up. If you aren't at the table, you're on the menu
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Joel Dickson retweeted
Got ourselves another FREAK. Welcome to Dallas, @DakotaDickson56!
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Joel Dickson retweeted
Straight from the man himself.
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Joel Dickson retweeted
There's a lot to love about Dakota.
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Congratulations Dakota and Ian NCS Champs 2025
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Regular season highlights! So blessed to still be playing in the playoffs! hudl.com/v/2TExnS
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