Senators Fight Over College Football
×
Error: Contact form not found.
by News Editor
University of Louisville and Oregon State University competing in 2010. Photo: wiki commons.
Politico – On paper, Sen. Joe Manchin would seem to be Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s ideal ally: He’s a red-state Democrat who is distancing himself from President Barack Obama just as the GOP leader is trying to derail the White House’s agenda.
But some things are bigger than politics — like college football.
McConnell now has a bitterly tense relationship with the freshman, fallout from a lobbying battle over the senators’ two alma maters — the University of Louisville and West Virginia University — and the final open spot in the prestigious Big 12 Conference.
