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This may be the dumbest thing that I’ve ever heard from the world of sports journalism: a few weeks ago the National Collegiate Athletic Association implemented new rules for live blogging at NCAA-sponsored sporting events. The whole thing got started when a sports writer was thrown out of a college baseball game for providing an online chronicle of the action as it happened. The NCAA screamed about “infringing” on the rights of the broadcast partners.

In the wake of the uproar, last month the NCAA established some… strange… regulations for live blogging by professional sports reporters at college athletic events:

Football
– Three posts per quarter and one post at halftime

Baseball
– One post per inning, including extra innings

Basketball
– Five posts per half, two posts in halftime, two posts per each overtime

Not only that, but each blog must display the NCAA logo (what the… %@#&?!?!?) and ...

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I just got back from Burlington a little while ago. On the return trip I decided to stop by Sandy’s Subs, located near the campus of my alma mater Elon University, to get a sandwich to take home.

I had totally forgotten about how Elon is playing Appalachian State today in football. Bear in mind that a few weeks ago Appalachian State pulled off an amazing victory against Michigan, one of the top-ranked teams in the nation. And then factor in that this is Family Weekend at Elon.

When Lisa and I were dating, she was a student at University of Georgia. Whenever I visited her on Saturdays in the fall, if Georgia had a home game going on the whole place was pandemonium. I’d never seen people go so positively bonkers for football as I did whenever it was a game day at Sanford Stadium.

What I saw today, ...

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Tonight at 7 p.m. Alaska Time (that’s 11 p.m. for us folks here on the East Coast) the Barrow Whalers will open their 2007 football season against the Seward Seahawks.

It will be the first-ever live broadcast over the Internet of a sporting event from north of the Arctic Circle! The game will be played 300 miles above the circle in Barrow, Alaska: the northernmost point on the North American continent.

Click here to enjoy the game on the Black Diamond Sports Network when it starts streaming live. The pre-game show starts 20 minutes before kickoff....

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Sports Illustrated has a feature on its website showing athletes who have been on The Simpsons and comparing their cartoon caricatures with their real-life photos. Among those from the world of sports who have made their way to Springfield at some point are Tony Hawk, LeBron James and Wade Boggs (pictured above from the legendary 1992 episode “Homer at the Bat”).

Thanks to Chad “Ironman” Austin for passing along the link!...

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