Louisville Courier-Journal v. NCAA

Gonna be fun when the NCAA starts revoking credentials of publications that are cool with diminishing coverage of the events...

 

Again, I hope all members of the media in Omaha just blog away.

Blog in a running thread on here, just blog and see if the NCAA will toss out every media member besides those at the WWL.

I'm sure media outlets readers will say "Shame, Shame" just as the C-J readers have done, but if this isnt taken to task, who knows whats next?

 

I'm sorry, Mr. Windu. If you want credentials for the Final Four, you also have to cover the NCAA Division II Indoor Track Championship.

 

And he didn't finish doing that either. So finishing the blog elsewhere would not have affected that outcome. And as he has said himself, they had other reporters there that took over those duties. The C-J higher-ups told him just to head on out.

Very true! I pointed this out several pages ago.

 

HA! So true! Quick, someone buy CollegeWorldSeriesBlog.com now and start posting!

 

So other than not being a particular fan of the blog, I'm not sure of your point.

 

I am very concerned the NCAA is going to start using this "policy" all the time - whether it be a regular-season game, bowl game, NCAA tournament game, etc.

I know the NCAA doesn't get it - people looking at these blogs mostly are those who can't get the game on TV (or maybe just want to augment the experience), so I'm not sure how that interferes with their product. Nor does it interfere with any of the many live scoreboards out there, since those offer something completely different - i.e. play-by-play, drive charts, shot charts, live stats, etc.

However, I do know that the NCAA knows that the media isn't going to group together and "strike" - i.e. not cover an event. The media will be there to cover the game (and supply yet even more free publicity for the sport(s)) regardless.

This is a fight worth fighting (and it could possibly greatly effect me), but I'm am very worried about the future.

 

Precisely why I've stopped reading this person's posts. They offer nothing new.

 

You shouldn't be. The NCAA doesn't have jurisdiction over any contest but NCAA Tournament games. The bowl games are not in their control. Regular season games are under the jurisdiction of the conference (or home team if non-conference? Someone pick me up here?).

 

Here's what I've been wondering about: What happens if Tyler Hansbrough's nose absorbs an elbow during the first half of an NCAA tournament game?

Is it OK to write two graphs describing the news of the injury for a quick update to a newspaper's Web site? What about the in-game injury updates on the wire -- are those now illegal too?

 

Gotcha, but there's no telling if schools will follow that lead. I believe the bowls have something like that in their press credential app, but don't enforce it (yet).

 

I'd say so, the if the NCAA is banning live blogging, it wouldn't matter if you just talked about Hansrough's favorite color. Which is why this is so important.