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NCAA Puts Severe Limits On Sport Event Blogging
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Zonk
on Thu Dec 20, 2007 02:41 PM
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from the because-commentary-isn't-appropriate-for-sporting-events dept.
An anonymous reader writes "You would think that the NCAA would be thrilled to have reporters live blogging events in order to generate more interest and keep passionate fans talking about NCAA sports. Not so. The governing body of the NCAA has released new rules for receiving press credentials and it includes severe limits on live blogging. If you're covering NCAA football, make sure you don't blog more than 3 times in a single quarter. If it's baseball, one post an inning is all you get. If you don't follow the rules expect to get ejected and have your press credentials pulled."
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What are these "sports" you speak of? (Score:2, Funny)
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- Greg
Bullshit (Score:2)
That's total bullshit. Either nobody will obey the rules, or nobody will blog anymore. I don't care one way or the other.
Also, NCAA, shoot yourself in the foot much?
Re:Bullshit (Score:5, Funny)
Take it to the next level: completely seal up the arena so no one can observe the game other than the players and you'll have the Wide World of Schrödinger Sports!
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Re:Bullshit (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Bullshit (Score:5, Funny)
The NCAA deals more with balls than feet, making the shot far more painful.
-mcgrew
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£5 says (Score:5, Funny)
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How do they expect to detect this ? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:How do they expect to detect this ? (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:How do they expect to detect this ? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:How do they expect to detect this ? (Score:4, Informative)
"The operation of transmitters designed to jam or block wireless communications is a violation of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended ("Act"). See 47 U.S.C. Sections 301, 302a, 333. The Act prohibits any person from willfully or maliciously interfering with the radio communications of any station licensed or authorized under the Act or operated by the U.S. government. 47 U.S.C. Section 333. The manufacture, importation, sale or offer for sale, including advertising, of devices designed to block or jam wireless transmissions is prohibited. 47 U.S.C. Section 302a(b). Parties in violation of these provisions may be subject to the penalties set out in 47 U.S.C. Sections 501-510. Fines for a first offense can range as high as $11,000 for each violation or imprisonment for up to one year, and the device used may also be seized and forfeited to the U.S. government."
This applies even on private property, because of the largely uncontrollable nature of signal propagation. For this same reason, it is effectively impossible for any person, entity, or government short of the federal government in the US to make any sort of rules relating to radio transmission, no matter where they try to enforce such rules.
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Re:How do they expect to detect this ? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:How do they expect to detect this ? (Score:5, Informative)
I think you miss the point. The only seating they are concerned with here is the press box (and anywhere else press credentials will get you like the sidelines in some cases). If you're going to blog from the stands, then no they can't stop you but if you're going to use your blog to become a card-carrying member of the press and get into the event on their dime, then you're going to play by their rules. Generally speaking they will be keeping an eye on you in that case. They're kind of stupid rules but at least bloggers can get press credentials for NCAA events.
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Re:How do they expect to detect this ? (Score:5, Insightful)
How would they detect it? By checking your blog probably.
Can they stop Joe Everybody from doing it? As a practical matter, probably not. And they probably aren't too worried about Joe Everybody (at least not yet). As for the legal issues, I don't see a problem with it. It's their game, and they set the rules. If you break the rules, they kick you out.
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If you want to get press credentials then you've got to follow the rules. I'm sure part of the process of applying for the credentials involves letting the NCAA know which site you write for and as such they could check to see how many times you post to that site if they want to.
Since this only applies to bloggers with press credentials, you can do whatever you damn well please if you just buy a ticket and sit in the stands like everybody else. Of course, good luck doi
Idiot at the wheel (Score:2)
This is so retarded it's hard to find the right words to express the expanse of stupidity it represents. Not to mention the 20,000 or so people in the stands texting and emailing pictures. Or are they going to take everyone's cell phone away and frisk them at the door?
Maybe I shouldn't give them any ideas.
Who needs press credentials? (Score:5, Interesting)
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Simple. By making the press creds for bloggers so draconian a burden that nobody accepts them, they avoid pissing off the big boys who like to believe they are special simply because they have press credentials and you, the huddled masses, don't.
That's all this is. Nothing to see here. Move along.
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No, this move just reeks of GREED. Almost every time someone, especially a corporate or commercial interest, attempts to limit the freedom of information about them then you should start sniffing for dollars because they are doing so in an attempt to keep the money themselves. Greed is going to be the downfall of many old-school, established businesses and/or their processes even though it may take a while. Just look at the RIAA and MPAA for examples - unless they can someho
NCAA has a habit of making bonehead moves (Score:3, Interesting)
Apropos poem (Score:3, Interesting)
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
=Smidge=
It is all a vast right-wing conspiracy (Score:2)
To make sure, the torture of cheerleaders is not uncovered. Or something...
This is a good idea too (Score:3, Insightful)
Yet again, the NCAA does it (Score:2, Interesting)
Don't Eject Me, Bro (Score:2, Insightful)
Maybe it's time to start questioning... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Maybe it's time to start questioning... (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm probably the only person who actively cheers for whatever team is opposing my old university, just out of sheer hatred for the football program. Yeah, I've got anger issues.
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Why? Because it makes money -- lots of money to fund all those things that geeks like such as research and scholarships.
Well, I'm not sure how much revenue generated by athletics goes into "research and scholarships" (other than athletic scholarships, that is). But...
I can go to the other pole as well: Why pretend that college athletics is some kind of overgrown extracurricular activity? If it has to be such a big deal on campus, let's acknowledge it for what it is (and I am not being facetious):
(1) If students can major in things like music, dance, and art, why not let athletes major in football, basketball, or whatever? S
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And don't even get me started about the time I complained about the weather...
Three words: Follow the money (Score:3, Insightful)
Hardly surprising from Myles Brand, the guy who made his claim to fame as the guy who fired Bobby Knight at Indiana...as many would say: "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Ask me if I give a shit about their rules (Score:5, Interesting)
(And yes, I feel the same way about a university's research. If that research was paid for by a company, they can control it how ever they like. But if that research was paid for by my tax dollars, then they can take their patent application and shove it up their collective ass.)
Re:Ask me if I give a shit about their rules (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Ask me if I give a shit about their rules (Score:4, Insightful)
Do you really think they're unprepared for this? Once the press figures out that you don't need credentials to sit in your seat and tap out blog entries from your phone they're going to start ejecting people for that, too. It'll be the fan-attacking RIAA mess all over again.
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And the press will portray you as a pirate, too (Score:3, Insightful)
Don't expect to be portrayed favorably.
Unless (Score:2)
And yes, I feel the same way about a university's research. If that research was paid for by a company, they can control it how ever they like. But if that research was paid for by my tax dollars, then they can take their patent application and shove it up their collective ass.
Unless they're getting the patent so some corporate entity doesn't patent their idea and make money off of their work. And lock them out of further research.
There are defensive patents, you know.
Key is "Live" blogging (Score:2)
I don't get the reason behind this...
"Credentialed" (Score:3, Interesting)
Not surprising (Score:4, Interesting)
The second was they were having a fit because we were shooting pictures of the game and posting them to the site. Not in real-time. After the game. As part of our coverage. Our publisher agreed to stop doing so
So there we were, two days later, posting pictures to the site
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very misleading (Score:3, Insightful)
Now, before anyone goes screaming censorship or free speech or anything along those lines -- these are the rules that the NCAA is setting for credentialed reporters. And, as a private organization, the NCAA can set whatever rules it wants for handing out credentials, no matter how mind-numbingly stupid they may be.
Other NCAA Forbidden Items (Score:3, Interesting)
The NCAA has outlawed any pictures or representations of our Mascot. Take a look and you can see why (if you can't, your in sensitive clod).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/Illinilogo.png [wikimedia.org]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a2/2006-11-11_-_Chief_Illiniwek.jpg/200px-2006-11-11_-_Chief_Illiniwek.jpg [wikimedia.org]
Pro or amateur sports? (Score:5, Insightful)
This is why I think the distinction is important. If the NCAA is an amateur organization, then we can forgive the situation when some of the member athletes do something stupid, like hire a stripper and serve beer to underage players, then do not have the maturity to excise themselves in a graceful way. But if they are not amateurs, of if NCAA wants to have the privileges affords pro sports, then they must also take on some of the responsibilities. Which means no one can call fowl when the players, even though they are kids, and have their names plastered across all the papers everytime they do something stupid. One cool thing about college is that one can get away with stuff one could never get away with on the outside. The side thing is that kids are accepting these high levels of responsibility without even thinking of the freedoms they are giving up.
Blogging Gerund Fun (Score:4, Funny)
Verbing weirds language.