U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens

Michigan Democratic U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens fired off a letter Tuesday to Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti warning against a proposed plan that calls for the conference to sell a 10 percent stake in its media rights to UC Investments for $2.4 billion.

Stevens insists the deal would put corporate profits ahead of student-athletes, college sports, and university integrity.

"Such an agreement would be a dangerous expansion of private equity influence over our nation’s universities, harming the quality of college sports and the integrity of university governance," she wrote in the letter.

"The influence of extremely wealthy, non-university interests has already created significant problems in college sports. Television networks’ quest for increasing market share

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