I love this story:

Courier-Journal sports reporter Brian Bennett had his media pass revoked and was ordered to leave the press box during a college baseball game Sunday because of what the NCAA said was a violation of its policies prohibiting live Internet updates from its championship events. "It's clearly a First Amendment issue," says C-J executive editor Bennie Ivory. "This is part of the evolution of how we present the news to our readers."

As the author of that story noted, what are they going to do next? Stop people from using cell phones and blackberries? Start scanning them for electronics on entry? The NCAA has to get with the program and realize what century they live in, and take note of something even simpler: if someone gets a web update on a game, are they more likely to start watching it, or less? If the answer is less, then they have a problem with the excitement level of the sport, and electronics bans won't solve that.

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