Governor of Penn to Sue NCAA

[ponyboy]

And so, what if the NCAA infractions committee didn't dream up a senario where an athletic representative was raping little boys in locker rooms when they wrote their rules?

Kind of analogous to the U.S. Constitution, isn't it? Having clearly defined rules never stopped activist judges from reading completely unintended meaning into those words.

[Water Pony]

NY Times Article

Old Case Suggests Hard Road for a Governor’s Suit

"Amid the turmoil, David R. McCormack, an alumnus and a lawyer, sued the N.C.A.A. in federal court on behalf of Southern Methodist’s graduates, its students, and several players and cheerleaders, accusing the N.C.A.A. of breaking federal antitrust laws. The class-action suit charged the N.C.A.A. with, among other things, imposing penalties unequally and without due process. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/04/sport ... .html?_r=0

[Stallion]

For the New York Times to completely miss the point of the SMU case in its headline is pretty sorry. Alumni and fans clearly have no standing-the Govenor of a state almost surely does

[dbone]

For the New York Times to completely miss the point of the SMU case in its headline is pretty sorry. Alumni and fans clearly have no standing-the Govenor of a state almost surely does

They did miss the point. I argued for 20 minutes that that case was a non-event. Kept trying to put words in my mouth. NY Times really really wanted to use that case to argue a conclusion they already had about PSU case.

[dbone]

For the New York Times to completely miss the point of the SMU case in its headline is pretty sorry. Alumni and fans clearly have no standing-the Govenor of a state almost surely does

They did miss the point. I argued for 20 minutes that that case was a non-event. Kept trying to put words in my mouth. NY Times really really wanted to use that case to argue a conclusion they already had about PSU case.