NCAA President Charlie Baker was asked to “provide more information about the association’s plans to allow college athletes to bet on professional sports.” U.S. Reps. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), John Joyce (R-Pa.) and Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.) of the Energy and Commerce Committee in a letter to Baker published Friday morning wrote that they were “examining the NCAA’s proposed policy change and sent a list of nine questions they want answered within two weeks.” The NCAA had been “on track to drop its ban on pro sports gambling Saturday but delayed the change to Nov. 22.” Friday’s letter from Guthrie, Joyce and Bilirakis asked Baker “what guardrails the NCAA was putting in place to try to avoid illegal sports betting.” They also asked for “more information about studies the NCAA has done about the impact of betting on student-athletes” (ESPN.com, 10/31).
U.S. Reps. question NCAA’s Baker on pro sports betting policy
