Louisville Courier-Journal v. NCAA

There was no reason to, was there? The team has never - never - won an NCAA tourney game until this year.

That's not a compelling case for coverage in advance of this magical tourney run.

 

Maybe big cities that aren't used to having good college baseball -- just to name a few, the Houston Chronicle covers Rice and Houston regularly, the New Orleans Times-Picayune covers LSU and Tulane regularly.

All I'm saying is, why is this story is big enough to blog and be A-1 (and the game, not the ejection, will be tomorrow and has been since last week) when it wasn't even important enough to staff two or three weeks ago? (Can't find a link, but I'm betting the C-J didn't staff the Big East Tournament.)

 

Unfortunately this paper is owned by Gannett. Will be interesting to see if it spends the money to fight this in court. They should, but likely won't.

 

How foolish of the C-J to not cover baseball full-time. It's not like the Louisville beat writer is at all busy from, say, late July to late March.

 

First Amendment wins out, is my guess.

An organization cannot own a public event. They can set their own boundaries for access -- and a newspaper can always buy a ticket like the general public, if it doesn't agree with the restrictions on reporting. But they set their own damn rules; they should have to abide by them.

 

Guess we'll have to watch the "official NCAA blog" and see if they cover the CWS. They didn't cover Louisville.

http://www.doubleazone.com/

 

This is all a joke right? The NCAA can't be this stupid can it?

 

Then, why didn't the NCAA make it expressly clear during the regionals? Also, does the NCAA have similar policies for other sporting events? Brian Bennett blogged in Lexington. Why didn't the NCAA Blog Nazis strike him down then? Surely the NCAA would have more to lose during the Big Dance then it does a baseball super regional.

 

yes

 

Then they should say that ... when they set the policy in the first place.

It's your own damn fault if you start serving drinks at your own party and then, an hour later, decide you're going to start enforcing the Volstead Act.

 

Ah, the NCAA. The only organization that won't let a college athlete accept a coupon for free pizza from her high school for winning a 3-point contest. (True story.) An organization that would penalize a school with 10 years probation because one of its basketball players found a penny on the sidewalk and picked it up. (Not true, but you can imagine them doing it.)

Yet it makes billions off football and basketball.

Karma might be coming soon and payback will be a bitch when it happens.