Last modified: 2018-09-29
Abstract
The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 was recently struck down by the United States Supreme Court paving the way for legalized sports gambling throughout the country. Several states, including New Jersey, Delaware, Mississippi, and West Virginia, have already opened legal sportsbooks with Pennsylvania and Rhode Island rumored to be following within the year. With sports gambling now legal, the idea of players, coaches, trainers and staff having significant "insider information" about the games presents an interesting issue.  The professional sports leagues and the NCAA, however, have been relatively silent on how to regulate this type of information. The NFL and the NBA already require injury reports on the players and the NCAA has been discussing a similar requirement of its member institutions. A required injury report from college athletes presents a variety of issues, most important being the student-athletes' right to privacy. For this reason, the NCAA should refrain from requiring the student-athletes to release their medical information to the public.