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Congress asks NCAA for info on rule change letting players bet – ESPNSkip to main contentSkip to navigation<>Congress wants info on NCAA letting players bet3dDan MurphyWoodward out as LSU AD amid Landry’s criticismLSU Tigers4dPete ThamelNCAA delays date when bets on pro sports allowed6dSankey asks NCAA to rescind betting rule change6dHeather Dinich’19 WS MVP Strasburg returns to SDSU, joins staffWashington Nationals7dVols baseball elevates Elander to replace Vitello9dFive things to watch in NCAA women’s volleyball this season74dMichael VoepelDan MurphyOct 31, 2025, 12:26 PM ETCloseCovers the Big TenJoined ESPN.com in 2014Graduate of the University of Notre DameFollow on XEmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsA trio of congressmen have asked NCAA president Charlie Baker to provide more information about the association’s plans to allow college athletes to bet on professional sports.Reps. Brett Guthrie, John Joyce and Gus Bilirakis of the Energy and Commerce Committee, which often oversees sports integrity issues, told Baker in aletter published Friday morningthat they were examining the NCAA’s proposed policy change and sent a list of nine questions they want answered within two weeks.The letter said their concerns increased this week in light of recentfederal indictmentsover illegal sports betting and gambling rings involving NBA players and coaches as well as the NCAA’s recent investigations into college athletes betting on their own games.The NCAA had been on track todrop its banon pro sports gambling Saturday butdelayed the changeto Nov. 22. NCAA athletes are still prohibited from betting on college sports and sharing information about college sports with bettors.”The NCAA has the most aggressive approach of any U.S. league in taking sports betting head on,” Tim Buckley, the NCAA’s senior vice president for external affairs, said in a statement. “The most significant threats to competition integrity are in states that continue to offer risky prop bets as well as the emerging grey market made up of futures and predictions trading sites that operate without oversight. For the last two years, the NCAA has been working with gaming regulators to push for adoption of stronger protections for college athletes and for stronger integrity measures and, while several states have made changes, more work remains.”The delay came days after SEC commissioner Greg Sankeypublished a letterto Baker that said his league’s leaders believed the policy change was “a major step in the wrong direction.” Sankey asked the NCAA’s board to rescind the policy change.If the rule goes into effect, it will mark a shift in a long-held policy that had become difficult to enforce with an increase in legal sports betting in the United States. The NCAA has faced an uptick in alleged betting violations by players in recent years. In September,the NCAA announcedthat aFresno Statemen’s basketball player had manipulated his performance for gambling purposes and conspired with two other pla…
Published: 2025-11-03T13:53:37
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