Comments on: Blogger removed from NCAA baseball game for blogging

A news blogger is told to leave a college baseball playoff game for posting during the game.

[Pete Bardo]

Blog this!

This isn't about blogging, it's about the money. There's a lot of money in exclusive rights to broadcast these games. It could be argued that live blogging infringes on those rights.

[cnhbradley]

get over it....

It is just a baseball game with broadcast rights. I had to register at cnet just to reply. Why couldn't I just reply anon.

So, Danny, in the famous words of the Eagles "Get Over It!"

[apearson3290]

First Amendment?

Doesn't the 1st Amendment prohibit the GOVERNMENT from restricting speach? NCAA should be able to do what they want. Is this really a first amendment issue as stated by the executive editor???

[jitgos]

Amen!

Exactly! I was going to make that exact point. People just do not understand the constitution anymore.

[wylbur]

wylbur

if the NCAA has sold live broadcast rights, they may have
entered into a contract that forces them to prevent others from
reporting live from the game. One would have a hard time
selling broadcast rights if just anybody could blog from a
game... and they do have to draw the line before others start
video blogging. Far from being backwards and old fashioned,
they are forward thinking and understand that they have to draw
the line if they are going to be able to sell broadcast rights.

As far as constitutional rights go, the government can't stop
people from blogging. However, if you want press credentials
from a sports league, you have to abide by their rules even if
they change them and you don't like it.

[iggy74]

Perhaps the NCAA official was an OSU alum

and did n't want the word to get out on tme cowboy massacre!

[devbost]

Why do sports orgs hate their fans?

First it was the MLB Extra Innings debacle, then baseball made another PR blunder with its antagonism toward Slingbox.

Now the NCAA is getting in on the act.

You can go to ESPN.com or any number of other web sites and see a near real-time box score for these games. Functionally, that isn't appreciably different from having someone live blog the game. But it's "against NCAA rules"? Please.

What gets me is that these people don't seem to realize that the PR hit that they take from idiocy like this far outweighs the benefit of keeping their product so far behind lock and key that somebody writing about the game in near real-time presents a perceived threat.

[DormRoomDude]

Sounds pretty disappointing. <a href="http://www.collegepad.com">college gear</a>

[ncrdbl1]

No big deal here the NCAA owns the rights to the game. The press has no constitutional right to be there unless the NCAA says they can be there or they buy a ticket. If you want to play in the NCAA playground then you play by their rules. Unfortunately the press has become self absorbed to the point where they think they are God almighty himself. Of the bill of rights every one applies to individual rights except one. That is the freedom of the press. Unfortunanately this is the only one that hasn't been stripped away. The press has taken the right to print the news freely and some how changed it to they have the right to do anything they want.