Word: ncaaã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...coast-to-coast coverage in 1952, which first responded to member schools’ complaints by implementing a game of the week policy which banned all other contests from the airwaves. Schools were limited to one appearance per year, but might be kept off the air altogether at the NCAA??€™s discretion, as Harvard was in 1952 when the DuMont network’s efforts to air The Game in New York were rejected by the NCAA, since NBC had placed the winning bid for the year’s exclusive broadcast rights...
Though both Harvard and Yale made no overtures to independently arrange a network broadcast arrangement, Pennsylvania almost immediately entered into such negotiations, while Princeton privately voted against the NCAA??€™s national blackout...
Officially, talk centered on the legality of the NCAA??€™s measures. The National Football League had pursued a comparable slate for its televised games, only to find itself the subject of a Justice Department anti-trust probe. Similar questions surrounded the NCAA??€™s monopoly status, and it was those concerns which were cited as the principle underlying the Ivies rejection of the television deal...
...Crimson had clinched an NCAA berth 10 days before, when the squad claimed at least a share of the Ivy title—the crown might have been shared with Brown at the time, but Harvard had defeated the Bears and thus would earned the NCAA?...
...most important thing is how we finish. Take the hockey team. For a while it was rocky, but they played well at the end and had a lot of heart and fight. For the baseball team we want to get our way into the NCAA??€™s and see what we can do when we get there...