For Decades, the NCAA Restricted the Number of College Football

question 256

Multiple Choice

For decades, the NCAA restricted the number of college football and basketball games that could be televised, and in 1982 the University of Georgia and the University of Oklahoma sued the NCAA under the federal antitrust laws.In 1984, the Supreme Court decided the case

• A)for the NCAA, citing the fact that belonging to the NCAA was voluntary.
• B)against the NCAA, citing that the NCAA did not control what television networks put on the air.
• C)against the NCAA, citing anticompetitive practice.
• D)against the NCAA, citing explicit collusion among the larger colleges.

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