Timothy Roemer: “Today one of the great events in sports in America begins, March Madness, the NCAA tournament. While our student…”

“Today one of the great events in sports in America begins, March Madness, the NCAA tournament. While our student athletes are going to be giving it all on the court, the coaches are going to be trying to out-think and out-strategize one another. But what do these coaches have in common, coaches like Mike Krzyzewski at Duke, Mike Montgomery at Stanford, Bill Guthridge at North Carolina, Roy Williams at Kansas? They all support a bill that the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Graham) and I have introduced called the Student Athlete Protection Act, a bill that seeks to preserve the integrity of college, amateur, and high school sports by imposing a complete ban on betting on college sports, not de minimus bets on pools and offices, but on betting in Las Vegas. Let us try to protect the magic and the purity of the competition in these sports and support this bill.”