NEW: As Trump pushed the Big Ten to restart college football, the White House offered to provide the conference with enough COVID-19 tests for play to begin, a university official briefed on the matter and a senior Trump administration official said
The Big Ten ultimately sourced the tests from a private company instead, the officials said.
"I called the commissioner a couple of weeks ago, and we started putting a lot of pressure on, frankly, because there was no reason for it not to come back," Trump told reporters Wednesday. Trump has for months called for the return of professional and college sports, many of which had been put on hold. He has pushed for states and schools to lift coronavirus-related restrictions despite the continued high rate of virus transmission in certain parts of the country; his own presidential campaign has ignored local restrictions on crowd sizes, mask-wearing and social distancing.
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