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Blogger Removed From NCAA Game for Blogging

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the in-soviet-america dept.

CNet is reporting that a blogger from the Courier-Journal of Louisville, KY was recently ejected from an NCAA game for live-blogging. "According to the Courier-Journal, staff blogger Brian Bennett was approached by NCAA officials in the fifth inning of a game between the University of Lousville and Oklahoma State, told that blogging 'from an NCAA championship event "is against NCAA policies (and) we're revoking the (press) credential and need to ask you to leave the stadium."'"

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  1. ObParis by michaelmalak · · Score: 4, Funny

    Heck, we got more live updates from the Paris Hilton court hearing on tmz.com than we can get on an NCAA game.

  2. Sigh by evil+agent · · Score: 4, Funny

    And here I was hoping that the Great Blogger Purge had begun.

    A man can dream, though. A man can dream...

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    1. Re:Sigh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I felt a great disturbance in the Blogosphere, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly sent to Siberia.

  3. In other news: by IthnkImParanoid · · Score: 4, Funny
    A website funded mostly by advertisements that is therefore immune to the temptation to sensationalize stories is reporting that a sports talk show host from WSHT was recently ejected from a meaningless sports event for calling the game with a HAM radio.

    According to WSHT, host Johnson Jones was approached by NCAA officials right before they stop selling beer and all the fun is gone in a game between the University of Lousville and Oklahoma State, and was told that calling the game 'from an NCAA championship event "is against NCAA policies (and) we're revoking the (press) credential and need to ask you to leave the stadium, before we employ more (parenthesis) and 'nested "quo't'es" at you in a "vicious"' (manner)."'
    Clearly, this is a sign our democratic meritocracy has finally collapsed under the weight of the jack booted thugs from college sporting events. The arguments from the N[azi]CAA that they have a right to revoke the press pass they gave him because he's competing with their services are obviously thinly veiled lies. The end of the world will follow shortly.
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  4. Re:"In Soviet America"? Please. by Chibi+Merrow · · Score: 4, Funny

    there is stll the debate about whether or not scuttlemonkey is incompetent for posting such a pointless and easily-refuted article.


    Is that really debatable?
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  5. Re:"In Soviet America"? Please. by Mononoke · · Score: 2, Funny
    What happens when there's 10,000 fans trying to blog from their phones.
    Cell towers going off like roman candles.
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  6. Re:"In Soviet America"? Please. by Junta · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think we can debate on whether or not that is debatable, I'm sure there are reasons it would be debatable and maybe reasons it wouldn't be debatable.

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  7. Re:"In Soviet America"? Please. by master_p · · Score: 2, Funny

    Extending the question: what would happen if we discover how we can manipulate time and space as we see fit? if reality can be shaped up as we wish?