In its most direct statement yet, the NCAA on Thursday warned North Carolina to repeal House Bill 2 soon or lose championship events through 2022.
"As the state knows, next week our various sports committees will begin making championships site selections for 2018-2022," the NCAA said in a statement. "Once the sites are selected ... those decisions are final." The NCAA plans to announce sites on April 18.
The statement came on HB2's first anniversary. It also came as lawmakers and the governor remain at an impasse over repeal, though legislative leaders said Thursday they're talking about changes in the law.
Last weekend Duke and UNC played their first-round NCAA tournament games in Greenville, S.C., after the games were moved from Greensboro. NCAA officials moved events "because of the cumulative impact HB2 had on local communities' ability to assure a safe, healthy, discrimination free atmosphere," the organization said Thursday.
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Boycott the NCAA until they learn the error of their ways.
ReplyDeleteShove it NCAA your demonic values have no place in civil society.
ReplyDeleteTime to make a stand against this evil rot in our society and tell the NCAA to go pound sand
ReplyDeleteBlackmail
ReplyDeleteI hope they don't. Screw the NCAA. What a totalitarian, liberal thinking organization it has become.
ReplyDeleteAnd Sourh Carolina can thank them for moving the games. They beat Duke handily and one of the reasons was "home field advantage ".
Now they're in the final four. Go gamecocks!
ReplyDeleteFight back, Carolina!
Who in the heck do they think they are?
ReplyDeleteA sports (!) organization demanding changes to law OR THEY THROW A FIT.
What gave them the idea that they get to dictate to ELECTED officials what laws will be changed, enacted, or enforced?
Was their name on a ballot or do they tink they are that powerful?
The hanging list just expanded.
Wow, the NCAA really is stupid. Transparent blackmail - who'd a "thunk" it?
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