Headlinin': Yea, as thine eligibility remains, so shalt Tebow return
Dr. Saturday —
... undercurrent in the Boston papers and blogs suggests Spaziani could be announced any day now: It's only logical.
Whoever assumes the role can count on the defense for another year, at least: ACC Defensive Player of the Year Mark Herzlich (right) will be back for his senior season to "complete his college experience." Translation: Welcome to campus, freshman coeds. Was your high school boyfriend fifth in Butkus Award voting?
• Mark Shurtleff has a blog. It's on blogspot -- UtahAG.blogspot.com ...
Reporters Notebooks
The Wiz of Odds —
... Mark Shurtleff: The Utah attorney general is using his personal blog to answer criticism that he's wasting state resources by investigating whether the Bowl Championship Series violates federal antitrust laws. This comes after the Salt Lake Tribune ...
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what your country can do to crown a true national champion.
Dr. Saturday —
... of political grandstanding and at least one very earnest blog entry against the Series since Thanksgiving. Towns doesn't even bother with the Constitutional cover: He just wants to know who's No. 1, dammit. ...
Recurring offseason themes, part one: If they push it, a playoff will come
Dr. Saturday —
... the "Plus One" tag and Florida State's president publicly declaring a playoff "inevitable" over the summer. Since the start of the last season, six different high profile coaches -- including four with a BCS championship on their resumé, along with the winningest coach in the sport's history -- publicly supported a playoff.
Coaches are one thing; coaches are on the payroll. Grandstanding politicans, antitrust lawsuits, Congressional committees and bills in the House of ...
Spinning counterclockwise with Jack Swarbrick
Dr. Saturday —
... directors' answers, the highest percentage anyone said was 15 percent."
"Zero" is very precise, so some research must be informing that number. Based on that research, what percentage of presidents were interested in a playoff five years ago, before Bernie Machen, Michael Adams and T.K. Weatherall publicly vouched and/or openly advocated for the idea? How many commanders in chief, grandstanding congressmen and attorneys general were using the power of their office to stump for a playoff when the ...
Update: What's up with those anti-BCS bills in Congress?
Dr. Saturday —
... to the Utes on the Senate floor Friday, and suggested the Justice Department could investigate the BCS as an illegal trust, but he didn't reference either bill in the House. They're certainly ...
Welcome aboard the playoff bandwagon, Mountain West
Dr. Saturday —
... will be instantly, emphatically crushed by BCS tanks, lest the other serfs get ideas. As long as Jim Delany breathes, counterrevolutions must not be tolerated.
The MWC's push will fail, probably in spectacular, one-sided fashion. Since November, though, this puts the official pro-playoff count at more than a half-dozen of the nation's most prominent coaches, at least as many grandstanding Congressmen, two bills in the House of Representatives, one high-minded attorney general, the university president of the defending national ...
