Big Ten To Require Football Teams To Report Available Players

ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — The Big Ten says it will require its football teams to provide an availability report of its players to the conference office no more than two hours before their games kickoff. The move is part of the league’s efforts to safeguard the integrity of games with legalized gambling becoming pervasive. No other Power Five conference has a league-wide availability report. College sports has been hit with multiple gambling related scandals this year, including in the Big Ten where several Iowa athletes in multiple sports are facing NCAA discipline for online gambling on sporting events.