Blogger Removed From NCAA Game for Blogging

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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[michaelmalak]

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

Sigh

[evil agent]

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

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

In other news:

[IthnkImParanoid]

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.

Re:"In Soviet America"? Please.

[Chibi Merrow]

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?

Re:"In Soviet America"? Please.

[Mononoke]

What happens when there's 10,000 fans trying to blog from their phones.

Cell towers going off like roman candles.

Re:"In Soviet America"? Please.

[Anonymous Coward]

And he does it again, slam dunk!

Have you ever noticed that whenever a story is mildly critical of a corporation or the government, daveschroeder is among the first to post in their defense?

One might wonder: what drives this man? What makes him tick? Is he even human? Why does he invariably and irresistably rush to the aid of the powerful, the elite, dismissing with a little tortured rhetoric any concerns for the rest of civilization?

Well, people, wonder no more.

I have learned the secret of daveschroeder's identity.

FLASHBACK TO 30 YEARS AGO:

[A covert subterranean LABORATORY for human genetic experimentation, buried in the MOUNTAINS of NEVADA. DR. STANWICK is holding a TEST TUBE, and his COLLEAGUES stand around him.]

Dr. Stanwick: This is it, gentlemen! Our efforts have finally paid off! No more shall the human race suffer! No longer shall the gullible be lead in frenzies against reason! The contents of this vial shall immunize all of humankind against the depredations of propaganda, rendering every man, woman, and child free of the lies that plague society.

Colleague #1: Who would have thought it possible?!

Colleague #2: Truly, how incredible! That we could extract all the lies, deception, and manipulative extortion from the world in liquid form, leaving only the essence of truth! Truth, and honesty, and the ability to discern it. All held in Dr. Stanwick's steady hand!

Colleague #1: Please, Dr. Stanwick, do the honors.

[Dr. Stanwick walks to the RACK OF EMBRYOS, and uses a PIPETTE to place drops from his test tube into the containers holding the embryos.]

Dr. Stanwick: These embryos mark a new age for humanity. When they are born, they will possess an utter disregard for propaganda, deceptive marketing, and lies in all their forms. They will possess an incredible ability to discern truth and reality.

Dr. Stanwick: The first embryo I will christen "Dave Schroeder," in honor of my great-grandfather Herman Stanwick. Herman always wished for a son named "Dave Schroeder." Even on his deathbed, he expressed regret at his failure in that regard. The second embryo ...

[Dr. Stanwick is interrupted as a TECHNICIAN runs into the laboratory.]

Technician: Stop, good Doctor! Am I too late? Have you already applied the extract?

[Technician holds up a SECOND TEST TUBE.]

Technician: I didn't know you planned to perform the experiment so soon. This morning, I removed the Truth extract from the laboratory freezer for testing, and, as my hands were full, I placed the dregs of the refining process in its former place.

Colleague #1: Are you saying that Dr. Stanwick has applied the remainders, after extraction of all truth, to the embryos on this workbench?

[There is a PREGNANT SILENCE in the room. All scientists look woefully at the floor.]

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[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:"In Soviet America"? Please.

[Junta]

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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[stonedcat]

Imagine all the free bandwidth in Siberia, you could corner the market and blog at like 10,000KB/sec.

Re:"In Soviet America"? Please.

[Anonymous Coward]

>What happens when there's 10,000 fans trying to blog from their phones.

Uzis?

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[master_p]

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?