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"Instead, the NCAA has now instituted special "live-blogging rules" for anyone credentialed to cover NCAA events. The rules change per sport, but they limit how many times you can blog during the course of a game. For baseball: once per inning (not even once per half-inning!). For basketball, it's five times per half, once during half-time, and twice in overtime. Football is three times per quarter and once at half-time. It even covers the more obscure sports: you can only blog 10 times per day at a swimming match, for example. You can see all the details here (pdf). "

more here: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071220/010939.shtml

i could see this going in multiple different forums. but it seems most appropriate for here.

this seems pretty arbitrary and stupid to me. for one thing: what defines a "blog entry" in the first place?

[Edited on December 20, 2007 at 4:30 PM. Reason : .]

12/20/2007 4:29:11 PM

i thought they did this a long time ago

12/20/2007 4:38:40 PM

they kicked a guy out of a baseball game a long time ago for live-blogging. but i think these policies are new.

12/20/2007 4:40:41 PM

explain to me why this matters

12/20/2007 9:12:54 PM

not sure why the NCAA really gives a fuck since ESPN has gamecast.

12/20/2007 9:44:29 PM

they are gonna shut down TWW Sports Talk

12/20/2007 9:54:58 PM

i think the Rugby world cup instituted similar rules a few months ago. They included restrictions of how many pictures of a single match you could put up on a website, restricting it to something like one picture for every 15 minutes of play. They actually used the excuse that they didn't want people re-creating the video from still images.
Simply put, the NCAA, NFL, MLB, NBA etc are so incredibly out of touch with reality and their fan bases, power hungry and greedy it boggles the mind....

12/20/2007 10:21:59 PM

Anyone know what it takes to get media credentials for ACC games?

12/21/2007 1:28:38 PM

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"they are gonna shut down TWW Sports Talk "

Only if you consider this live blogging.

Poster A: Costner is such a lazy ass, where was he on that blockout
Poster B: FUCK@!!!!! We always get raped by the refs.
Poster C: That's some NCState shit right there.

12/21/2007 1:34:16 PM

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"explain to me why this matters not sure why the NCAA really gives a fuck since ESPN has gamecast."

12/21/2007 3:41:29 PM