President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that aims to bring stability to college sports while preventing college athletes from becoming professionals.

The president's order includes guidelines that would preserve athletic scholarships based on an athletic department's annual revenue. More noteworthy, however, is the declaration that no athlete should be permitted to accept "third-party, pay-for-play payments."

The executive order directs members of his Cabinet to develop a plan of attack within the next 30 days. It also tabbed Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to use future federal funding decisions, among other points of leverage, to force schools to oblige the new policy.

"A national solution is urgently needed," Trump said in the executive order, "to prevent th

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