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Date: May 15, 2009
ACC ignores NCAA flag ban
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Calling the policy unfair to South Carolina, the ACC decided this year it no longer would mimic the NCAAs ban on predetermined championship events being held in the state, a league official said Thursday.

On Wednesday, the ACC announced Myrtle Beach had been awarded the conferences baseball tournament for three years, beginning in 2011. The league also considered a bid from Greenville among the five finalists.

The NCAAs ban is in place so long as the Confederate flag continues to fly on the grounds of the state capitol. It began in 2001.

Both the ACC and SEC quietly fell in step with college athletics governing body, although the SEC held its womens basketball tournament in Greenville two years ago when Atlanta withdrew as the planned site.

But Davis Whitfield, ACC associate commissioner and director of championships, said the league chose to quit punishing prospective host sites if they could produce a proactive plan for handling the flag controversy should their site be picked.

http://www.thestate.com/local/story/787329.html



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Thames9


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Rebel!

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TigerStripe


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Thames9 wrote:

Rebel!



 It's about time the ACC get with the times.



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