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DraftKings and FanDuel Agree with NCAA to Suspend Amateur and College Sports Contests
No more March Madness: DraftKings and FanDuel have agreed to suspend the offering of DFS contests on NCAA games.
Although the 2016 Men's NCAA nationwide Championship finished in spellbinding drama yesterday and Kris Jenkins' sizzling, match-winning shot in the last micro-second associated with the blew our tiny small minds, this will be most likely the this past year ever that fans will be able to ramp the enjoyment up of March Madness through DFS contests.
Both DraftKings and FanDuel have voluntarily agreed this week to close the drafts on college-level and sports that are amateur. This follows what a FanDuel spokesperson called 'months of productive conversations' with the NCAA, as well as state legislators, during which both organizations heard their concerns about the effect of dream recreations on college-level and athletics that are amateur.
Both Indiana and Virginia, which this season became the first states to regulate DFS in the usa, included provisions in their legislation that the contests ought not to be based on university tournaments.
'It is clear that this is an issue that issues to many different constituencies and we feel that the best path forward is to suspend offering these contests pending resolution in the issue within state legislatures,' stated FanDuel.
'We supported all of these efforts, and going forward we shall earnestly help bills containing the provisions