sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 7/1/2009
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate plans to hold a hearing next week looking into antitrust issues surrounding college football's Bowl Championship Series.
sportingnews.com - 7/2/2009
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Harvey Perlman, chairman of the BCS Presidential Oversight
Committee, must be a masterful bureaucrat. Not only does...
he have a baffling title, he also has a straw man in his pocket, and isn't afraid to pull it out and shake it at you until you get ...
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BCS Chair Threatens to Bring 1988 Back
vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 7/3/2009
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Complaints about the college football Bowl Championship Series
are nothing new. Indeed, it seems every year an...
obviously deserving team is left out of the BCS due to its arcane and, to put it bluntly, biased nature. Leaders in Washington are catching ...
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The case for congressional hearings into the BCS - ...
judiciary.senate.gov - 7/6/2009
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The Bowl Championship Series: Is it Fair and
In Compliance with Antitrust Law? June 30, 2009 NOTICE...
OF SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING The Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights will hold a hearing ...
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Hatch Calls for BCS Hearings
Block U —
... other important issues on the table. He says there are "serious questions" surrounding the legality of the system.
"The Sherman Anti Trust Act prohibits contracts, combinations or conspiracies designed to reduce competition," Hatch wrote. "I don't think a more accurate description of what the BCS does exists."
Hatch also goes on to criticize the way teams are awarded money for being a part of the BCS.
Hearings are set for July 7th. See Sports Illustrated story for more details. ...
Varsity Numbers: The Perfect Playoff
Football Outsiders —
... Maintaining an "I'm okay either way -- I just want to watch college football" middle ground on the topic has become impossible because the subject just will not die. Not only do most college football analysts either directly or passive-aggressively mention it at every opportunity over the last two months of a given football season, but now Congress has gotten involved. Because one all-posture, no-resolution hearing wasn't enough, Utah Senator Orrin Hatch is getting ready to hold a second Senate BCS hearing next week, asserting that the BCS violates the ...
... And We're Back
The Redshirt Señior —
... and the Senate has decided to further waste tax payers' dollars on a BCS hearing that could give everyone the change they've been feening for -- and could set Orrin Hatch up as the People's Choice for Republican candidate for the 2012 Presidential race. Hey, don't laugh, having a pro-playoff stance helped endure Barack Obama to a legion of voters. ...
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A Recap of the Senate BCS Hearing
teamspeedkills.com 7/8/2009 — You can watch today's Senate BCS hearing online (skip ahead to about the 17 minute mark), but it's mostly just five people treading old ground.
Anyway, it was far less of a waste of time than the House hearing earlier this year because it wasn't ...
It’s time to be honest about the BCS
blogs.ajc.com 7/7/2009 —
Today at 2:30 p.m. a Senate Judiciary subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled: “The Bowl Championship Series: Is it Fair and in Compliance with Antitrust Law?”
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), you’ll be shocked to hear, believes that the ...
TWTWCFB: The BCS Hearings
spartyandfriends.com 7/9/2009 — “The Bowl Championship Series: Is It Fair And In Compliance With Antitrust Law?” was the Senate Committee’s title for rehashing the same freaking arguments we’ve heard since 1997.
THE BCS IS UNFAIR!
WE NEED A PLAYOFF!!
THE BCS KILLS PUPPIES!
That’s right, I ...
Breaking Down the Facts of the BCS
mwcfootball.wordpress.com 7/9/2009 — This is similar to the write up with Harve Perlman , but this time it is with Atlanta Journal Constitution writer Tony Barnhart . Now before we get into Barnhart’s credentials — which will be exposed — lets get into mine and show where I am coming from.
First off this is a ...
Making the Rounds: All this BCS is Making My Head Hurt
mwcfootball.wordpress.com 7/9/2009 — No more promise are to be made of this being the ‘last’ or ‘next to last’ article on the BCS. There is just too much content to ignore the issue. Now I could just write a huge piece filled with thousands of words about the hearings.
This BCS talk has some legs still ...
College Football Goes Down the Hatch
online.wsj.com 7/7/2009 — You can't blame Nancy Pelosi for this one. Today the Senate antitrust subcommittee will hold hearings on perhaps the only American institution less popular than Congress itself: the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). Like an earlier hearing in the House, ...
Varsity Numbers: The Perfect Playoff
footballoutsiders.com 7/2/2009 — Make no mistake: a college football playoff is going to happen someday. In the latest Varsity Numbers, Bill Connelly suggests the best possible playoff option.
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BCS Threatens Us With the Old System
mwcfootball.wordpress.com 7/3/2009 — Found an interview with Harvey Perlman who is the new chairman in the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This interview is chalk full of amazing answers, so I will interject my own commentary within Perlman’s answers and you have been warned this ...
