A lawyer for daily fantasy company FanDuel responded Monday to the NCAA's demands last week that it stop offering a college fantasy product.
The letter e-mailed by the company's chief legal counsel Christian Genetski to NCAA executive vice president Mark Lewis on Monday, and obtained by ESPN.com, noted that the site does "not plan to make changes to our games at this time, and certainly not without further conversations with you." Genetski also maintained that the NCAA has no legal basis for forcing FanDuel to stop its college games because names when tied to statistics aren't subject to the approval of the athletes and "cannot implicate their amateur status.