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Blogger Thrown Out Of Baseball Game For Live Blogging The Game

View Comments July 15, 2007 | Everton

Digital Inspiration picked up on a sports story that got my attention. A blogger was thrown out of a NCAA baseball game because he was posting live updates on a website (admittedly a newspaper website). The stadium officials threw the blogger out because because reporting of a ‘game in progress’ violated the broadcasting rights that were sold exclusively to ESPN and CBS.

It’s a shame that the individual thrown out was a journalist, as I wonder if officials could have thrown out an individual posting on their own personal site? I’m guessing that the stadium would have to say that ‘blogging’ wasn’t allowed at the entrance or on tickets, in the same way that you are not allowed to take photos at some concerts now.

It just goes to show how far blogging has come on as a new form of journalism.

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About Everton: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day. View posts.

  • I Totally Agree with nirmal
  • I imagine eventually there will be some formal distinction made as to whether or not blogs should be seen as news outlets. That is a fine line the blogger was treader, but perhaps less fine if they actually got into the game using press credentials. If they got in that way, they shoud have absolutely known better about live broadcast rights.
  • I feel that the guy should have been given a warning before being thrown out. I was wondering what if the guy was updating using mobile phone? Will they throw him out?

  • @Shankar


    First and final warning - please stop trying taking advantage of my Dofollow policy generosity. No site names in comments please

  • Actually companies pay a lot to get the game progress live in their website. That too when they want it in ball by ball. Otherwise in Cricket you can only display results after 5 balls. Which means the website can show results late by 5 balls. In such case usually only few companies get permission to report results on media and redistribute them. However what he has done is an offence by reporting it on website.

  • Interesting. If this guy was a journalist, I don't see how it's any different than turning on the 11 o'clock news and hearing the sports person report on a game in progress.

    ..I wonder if this blogger had real credentials.
  • I think that throwing him out without prior warning was totally uncalled for. He should have been warned the first time.

    As you said, there was no rule prohibiting blogging explicitly
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