{"id":1927133,"date":"2026-08-08T12:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1927133"},"modified":"2026-08-08T14:40:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:40:37","slug":"still-in-limbo-the-federal-protect-college-sports-act-was-punted-what-that-means-for-nc-state-adding-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1927133","title":{"rendered":"STILL IN LIMBO: The federal \u2018Protect College Sports Act\u2019 was punted. What that means for NC State adding players."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welp, the Senate left town without touching the Protect College Sports Act, so we&#8217;re going to be living in flux for a while. Instead of calling a vote, they just \u201cguaranteed\u201d a look in September after the five-week recess. That\u2019s the latest chapter in a bill that was supposed to put some actual rules back [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/08\/08\/still-in-limbo-the-federal-protect-college-sports-act-was-punted-what-that-means-for-nc-state-adding-players\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welp, the Senate left town without touching the Protect College Sports Act, so we&#8217;re going to be living in flux for a while. Instead of calling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1927139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1927133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927135,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927133\/revisions\/1927135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1927133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1927133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1927133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}