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NCAA Further Distances Itself From DFS Industry; No Advertising During Tourneys

The NCAA yesterday took further steps to "distance itself from daily fantasy sports websites, calling off planned talks to iron out differences after having already told the sites privately that they would be barred from advertising during the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments," according to Marc Tracy of the N.Y. TIMES. The NCAA sent a letter to DraftKings and FanDuel, "canceling a meeting with them in light of several official inquiries," including those by the FBI and the N.Y. Attorney General, into the "fairness and integrity of the games." Along with the 10 "most prominent football conferences, the NCAA had asked the sites in August to stop offering fantasy games based on college sports." In canceling the planned meeting to discuss their position, NCAA Exec VP/Championships & Alliances Mark Lewis wrote, “We believe that your product should not be offered in the college space for a variety of reasons, and we do not believe a further meeting with your organizations will change that view.” Tracy notes the CFP "is not administered by the NCAA." But CFP Exec Dir Bill Hancock said that it "had not engaged in extensive discussion on the topic yet with ESPN," which has a 12-year, $7.3B contract to broadcast the CFP games. Meanwhile, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said that the conference "has asked the SEC Network, which ESPN owns, not to air ads for daily fantasy sports." Pac-12 Networks and the Big Ten Network "still air daily fantasy ads, although not ones that promote college games" (N.Y. TIMES, 10/21).

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