sltrib.com - 1/12/2009
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Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff has his game face on. He's upset that the undefeated University of Utah football team was denied the chance to play for a national championship. So he's studying his playbook, scribbling on his legal pads and talking trash. The Bowl Championship Series' ...
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sportingnews.com - 1/12/2009
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Spencer Hall offers a letter-by-letter analysis of the
college football bowl season. A is for Ambiguity, Again,
ARRRRGGGHH. If the BCS is not dead yet, it has been placed on a metal table, strapped down, and placed in the path of a slowly ...
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The Alphabetical: Bowl Edition
sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 1/11/2009
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Dan watched the BCS title game with Erin
Andrews and her sister in a private suite last
night. Not bad.
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Headlinin': Yea, as thine eligibility remains, so shalt Tebow return
Dr. Saturday —
... 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 (not to mention his Twitter feed) -- and the Utah attorney general used the site Saturday to lay out six reasons his legal campaign against the BCS is legitimate, and not a complete waste of precious taxpayer dollars. The Salt Lake Tribune does not exactly agree:
We agree with Shurtleff that the BCS system is bogus; that ...
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The Wiz of Odds —
... 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 published an editorial critical of Shurtleff. ...
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mwcfootball.wordpress.com 1/13/2009 — This all started when Utah Attorney General, Mark Shurtleff , said he would be suing the BCS just a few days after the Utes defeated Alabama 31-17 in the Sugar Bowl.
MAY THE BEST MAN WIN (NOT)
utahag.blogspot.com 1/12/2009 — “In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win.” - Sam Huff, NFL Hall of Fame middle linebacker. As a first team All-American at West Virginia University, Sam Huff played in the Sugar Bowl 55 years ago. I ...
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Musings from 37,000 feet en route to Knoxville.
Having been delayed a day due to weather, I finally made the first leg of my journey home from Wyoming to Knoxville for the next semester. Thanks to a pleasantly welcome 3-hour layover, I ...
Utah's Attorney General, the Latest to Threaten Lawsuit for a Playoff
ncaafootball.fanhouse.com 1/7/2009 — by Chas Rich The whole state of Utah seems to be losing it's mind. They are spamming AP voters . To raise the money to send the Utah band to Washington D.C. for the inauguration, they are requesting that any donations to the Utah band be for $13 or ...
A Detailed Look at the BCS System
bizoffootball.com 1/7/2009 — There is no other system that can stir up a conversation like the BCS, Bowl Championship Series . Does college football need a playoff, or is the BCS the best solution possible? Here's a detailed break down of the BCS system.
ESPN won't push for BCS playoffs, executive says - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com 1/9/2009 — "The format is left to the people who run the sport," Magnus said. ESPN outbid Fox for the next four-year run of the BCS, starting with the 2011 season. BCS officials last spring rejected a modified playoff plan, and most conferences remain adamantly ...
New Year's Days of Old —
Bleacher Report - College Football 1/12/2009
I used to love New Year’s Day. Every college football fan did. That was the day, the only day, when you could watch football morning, afternoon and night.
And back before the BCS, the biggest bowl games were almost always on New ...
What If the NFL Tried the BCS? —
Bleacher Report - College Football 1/13/2009
The greatest sham on Earth is the BCS. The fact that it has survived this long is a testament to just how prevalent greed is in sports, and we're not even talking professional sports here.
This year, if the NFL used the coveted BCS system we ...
