Jilted Sports Writer’s Federal Claim Against the NCAA Fails

The civil rights claim of a sports writer, who sued the NCAA and the College World Series of Omaha, Inc. after they revoked his press credential, was dismissed after the court reaffirmed that the NCAA “does not act under color of state law for purposes of § 1983.”   Plaintiff Ben Salazar, who is of Mexican-American ethnicity, publishes Nuestro Mundo, a bilingual newspaper in Omaha, Nebraska. Because of the newspaper’s location, the plaintiff and his staff usually receive CWS press cr