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Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby’s betting scandal hit a legal and political flashpoint when AG Ken Paxton threatened a $200M lawsuit if the Big 12 sanctioned him—just days after the school’s regents chair, Cody Campbell, donated $274K to Paxton’s Senate campaign. Campbell, a vocal Sorsby supporter and major donor to Texas Tech athletics and Paxton’s political coffers, framed the QB’s case as a system failure. With Paxton trailing Democrat James Talarico in polls, the NCAA pushed back, insisting college sports must be protected. But in the end, Sorsby won’t play this fall—not because of legal pressure, but due to the NFL’s supplemental draft deadline, with the university claiming it acted with integrity all along.

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