Pitt athletic director Heather Lyke appeared remotely before members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee during a hearing in Washington, D.C, on Wednesday and asked them to prohibit gambling on college sports. In her statement, Lyke said gambling has a “corrosive and detrimental impact on student-athletes and the general student body."
“While we understand that gambling on professional sports is here to stay, we urge Congress to directly address gambling on intercollegiate athletics and prohibit it, as was intended in PASPA and had been the case for so long,” Lyke told the committee.
PASPA, the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, was struck down by the U.