"The NCAA issued new rules this week that will allow credentialed press to blog live NCAA championship sporting events. The rules, however, limit the number of times reporters can post live blogs depending on the sport they cover." (via Guardian/PDA)

Aussie rules, college baseball, cricket, rugby, football — lots of major sports are trying to contol journalists’ access to protect the exclusive rights they sell to broadcasters. This issue is not going to go away soon.

Doug Fisher: "Now comes a complaint from the Oregonian’s editor that the NCAA threatened to yank that papers credentials for the College World Series because editors watching the Oregon super-regional on TV were filing updates to the paper’s Web site."

The Louisville Courier-Journal may sue the NCAA for barring its blogging reporter from a college baseball game.

NCAA response: "Live coverage is considered a protected right that has been granted to CBS as part of a bundled rights agreement. As part of that agreement, ESPN has shared exclusivity on internet rights for the 22 championships it broadcasts."

"A blogger from the Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky., was expelled from a college [baseball] playoff game for live-blogging."