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NCAA Ending Restriction On Alcohol Sales At D-I Championships

Pilot programs the past two years allowed alcohol sales at the College World Series in Omaha Getty Images

The NCAA this week voted to eliminate the "restriction on the sale of alcohol at Division I championships," according to Blair Kerkhoff of the K.C. STAR. The decision comes two years after pilot programs "allowed alcohol sales during the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., and Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City, and expanded last year to include" the FCS title game and championships in wrestling and men's lacrosse in all three divisions and men's ice hockey and women's volleyball. Although the decision affects "only NCAA-operated events such as the Final Four and NCAA Tournament, the number of universities that have allowed beer and wine sales at sporting events has grown over the years" (K.C. STAR, 4/19). The council action "isn't considered final until the board meeting closes on April 25." Alcohol sales are "already permitted" at the CFP and other New Year's Six bowls, which are "not administered by the NCAA" (USA TODAY, 4/19).

MONEY TO BE MADE: A TUSCALOOSA NEWS editorial stated the SEC "still has a ban on stadium-wide alcohol sales," but there is a "push by some SEC schools to overturn that ban." Anyone who has attended a football game at Alabama "knows booze and beer flow ... through town on game day." Allowing it to be sold inside the stadium is "not likely to result in more drunks." If anything, it "might cut down on the binge drinking that happens before kickoff." If cold beer is available it also "might cut down on harder liquor that was snuck in with mini bottles and flasks." There is "more money to be made." If the change "doesn't happen this year, it will soon" (TUSCALOOSA NEWS, 4/18).

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