NCAA Puts Severe Limits On Sport Event Blogging 185
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."
How do they expect to detect this ? (Score:3, Interesting)
Who needs press credentials? (Score:5, Interesting)
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=
Yet again, the NCAA does it (Score:2, Interesting)
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.)
"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
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]
Re:Bullshit (Score:1, Interesting)
Exactly. Who the fuck are these lunatics who are so infatuated with extravagantly overpaid adults playing children's games that they have to be hooked to their electronic tits while pissing away time watching this crap?
Get fucking real -- instead of sitting on your fat ass, spend the $100 you pay for a ticket on something real, like feeding a family who has no idea where their next meal is coming from.
Self-indulgent bastards -- players, owners and spectators alike -- fuck them all.
Destroy the sports establishment. All these shits have to offer is teaching kids to drug up and cheat to get ahead in life. Put all these assholes to work building society, not tearing it down for their own self-aggrandizement.
Re:Who needs press credentials? (Score:3, Interesting)
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 somehow overcame their stuck-in-a-rut attitudes and progress into the current year then they are going to be overrun sooner or later by a business model that can adapt to the times.
I've used the following quote before, but it seems appropriate again here:
In this case, the NCAA wants to master all communications about the game. In some ways, this is their right since they own the "copyright" on the game in question. On the other hand, live blogging adds a new dimension to what has become a rote exercise (TV coverage, radio coverage, and print media coverage) and gives new life to sports coverage - imho. Still, I believe that money and greed is behind this move. Send in the bloodhounds and start sniffing...
Re:How do they expect to detect this ? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:What are these "sports" you speak of? (Score:3, Interesting)
- Greg