AllThingsD: The NCAA Blows the Whistle on Twitter’s “March Tweetness”
Saturday, 4 April 2009, 09:06
"{Federated Media] has taken down [March Tweetness] at the request of the National Collegiate Athletic Association … The college sports group, which keeps a tight grip on any and all trademarks related to its teams, games and tournaments, says the site infringed on its copyrights."
Wednesday, 2 January 2008, 16:48
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"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)
Tuesday, 26 June 2007, 18:56
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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.
Sunday, 17 June 2007, 14:01
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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."
Thursday, 14 June 2007, 17:53
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The Louisville Courier-Journal may sue the NCAA for barring its blogging reporter from a college baseball game.
Tuesday, 12 June 2007, 09:38
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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."
Monday, 11 June 2007, 22:25
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"A blogger from the Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky., was expelled from a college [baseball] playoff game for live-blogging."
