The University of Louisville’s deep run in this year’s College World Series has found the Cardinals playing in plenty of memorable games, and Brian Bennett, a reporter with The Courier-Journal of Louisville, has documented the team’s progress on his blog — until last Sunday, that is, when officials with the National Collegiate Athletic Association decided that the blog violated NCAA broadcasting restrictions.
Since the incident attracted public attention, journalists and pundits have debated the wisdom — and the legality — of the NCAA’s decision. In fact, the NCAA was probably within its rights to revoke Mr. Bennett’s press privileges, according to Wendy Seltzer, a fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. But the affair raises plenty of interesting legal questions, Ms. Seltzer says, and she catalogs those issues on her blog, Legal Tags.
Among them: Can Louisville, a public institution, “ban speech or allow others to do so on its space based on claimed disruption to a business deal?” Since live blogs covering sporting events are growing much more popular, it’s a question that campus officials might want to mull over. —Brock Read
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