A question only a lawyer would think to ask
By Are televised college sports news programs or commercial events?
The NCAA’s legal theory, as put forth at the summary judgment hearing in the O’Bannon class action suit today, is that college football and basketball games are news events, rather than commercial events. Commercial events, NCAA lead counsel Lionel Hutz argued, charge people for admission, and license their exclusive broadcast rights to individual television networks, while news events . . .