With West Virginia’s basketball team preparing to play a pair of teams ranked in the Top 3 nationally this week, one powerful Mountaineer fan voiced her concerns about the ability of fellow WVU fans to watch either game.
The matter actually at hand was a Senate subcommittee hearing featuring NCAA president Mark Emmert and Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby about creating rules that will allow college athletes to benefit financially from use of their name, image and likeness.
But with Bowlsby in the room, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) took the opportunity to ask about a matter of concern to her constituency — the Big 12 Now streaming service on ESPN-Plus.