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03/18/2008

NCAA Blogging Policy

With the NCAA Basketball Championship upon us, the association has released its policy on blogging [Download PDF]:

"The following is the NCAA’s policy for the number of blog posts allowed during a men’s and women’s basketball championship competition or session (i.e., where more than one contest takes place under the same admission ticket): Five times per half, once at halftime and two times per overtime period."

13 posts in a game that goes one OT. They're clearly trying to prevent someone "live blogging" every bucket. And the policy is easily enforceable if you are a credentialed reporter. Violate the policy, lose your credentials. A very big deal. But if I'm sitting in the stands with my iPhone, posting to my Twitter page... how do you stop that? And why is that less of a threat to the NCAA?

If anyone comes across examples of the this, let me know.

DISCLOSURE: The company I work for, Learfield Communications, has the marketing rights for a bunch of teams playing in the NCAA championship series.

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