Mark Emmert Does Something Right: The NCAA Takes A Stand

I still don't think the NCAA has any right to administer college sports as long as Pedophile State is around.

That said, I have to play fair.

The NCAA, today, removed all championship events for the 2016-17 school year out of the state of North Carolina for the transphobic HB2 law.

This includes a pair of "pods" for the men's basketball tournament in March of 2017.

The seven championship events are:

• Division I Women's soccer Final Four and Grand Final
• The Grand Final for both men's and women's Division III soccer.
• Two pods of March Madness out of Greensboro
• A regional of Division I women's golf
• the Division III tennis championships
• the Division I women's lacrosse Final Four and Grand Final
• and the Division II baseball national tournament.

I hope you transphobic fuckers are happy, as you're racking up a nice track record of heading your state toward apartheid levels in sports!

Fuck you.

Interesting point:  It seems that, every year or close, Duke and/or North Carolina are playing in a March Madness "pod" or regional in North Carolina.  So I decided to look...

With the advent of moving the Final Four and Grand Final to large stadiums, the last time a Final Four was put in North Carolina was Charlotte in 1994.

If HB2 is not repealed within one year, the NCAA will pull another pair of pods from North Carolina, as Charlotte is scheduled to host in March of 2018.

Between Raleigh, Winston-Salem, Charlotte, and Greensboro, the state of North Carolina has been a host of some round of the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament five of the last seven years and thirteen of the last seventeen.  (Wikipedia)  (Not hosted in 2002, 2003, 2010, and 2013.)