Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Court Rules Coach’s Violations Are Not a Form of Free Speech

“The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the claim by a high school football powerhouse in Tennessee that its coach’s recruiting violations were a form of free speech that could not be penalized by the state athletic association,” reports The New York Times. According to the report, “The 9-to-0 opinion removed a cloud over the ability of school sports associations to impose recruiting rules on their member schools and to punish violators.”