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 on to—and even echoing—the negative feelings ...
teamspeedkills.com - 7/8/2009
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teamspeedkills.com —
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 ...
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A Recap of the Senate BCS Hearing
online.wsj.com - 7/7/2009
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online.wsj.com —
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, ...
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College Football Goes Down the Hatch
teamspeedkills.com - 7/8/2009
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teamspeedkills.com —
The BCS is going to get vilified in
Congress again today, but the folks in charge of...
it don't want change. There's a litany of reasons why they want to keep the current system, but today I'm going to focus on the economic reason. It's partly ...
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The Economics of Why the BCS Doesn't Want Change
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Headlinin': Meet the Senate's BCS witnesses
Dr. Saturday —
... , as in the latest issue of the noted policy journal, Sports Illustrated. The Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights ...
Fallacies of your ordinary College Playoff politician
NittanyWhiteOut —
... How shocking. The drumbeat for a college football playoff starts again and everyone is once again up in arms. The only difference is the person beating the drum. This time it is the Republican Senator from Utah, Orrin Hatch. ...
The Week in Sports Columns, Vol. XXVI
RCS Sidelines —
... Top Columns of the Week, June 29 to July 5, 2009
1. US Men’s Soccer Hopes They Can Stay Relevant – John Powers, Boston Globe
2. Yao’s Injury Could Be Opportunity For Rockets – Richard Justice, Houston Chronicle
3. The Night That Changed Wimbledon Forever – Ian Chadband, Telegraph
4. For Better or Worse, Joe Dumars Moves Boldly – Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press
5. The Case For Congressional Hearings in The BCS – Sen. Orrin Hatch, Sports Illustrated
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The To-Do List
SI.com - Extra Mustard —
... ) Just catch it from the couch: Five different networks -- NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC and E! -- are planning live coverage starting at 1 p.m. ET. 4. The BCS goes to Washington ... again One week after writing an essay for Sports Illustrated asking whether the BCS violates the Sherman Antitrust Act, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has ...
Talk About Hope And Change In D.C. [Ncaa Football]
Deadspin —
... It's more complicated than that — it must be, since it's gone through 160 pages in drafts, and Kennedy uses the Georgetown library to remain up-to-date with the latest developments — but 15,000 e-mails later, he's still having trouble getting the ear of college presidents and D.C. politicos. (They're busy bemoaning the state of the BCS in a more public setting.) ...
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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.
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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.
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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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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 ...
Evolution of Bowl Money Distrubution
mwcfootball.wordpress.com 7/13/2009 — Richard W. Evans a person much smarter then me happens to be a professor at BYU in economics and has four degrees — including a PhD in economics– put together a very good article. The article is titled NCAA Bowl Finance: Something Changed in 1995 is a must read as I attempt to ...
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 ...
Mountain West: No Playoff, Just Payoff
danshanoff.com 7/10/2009 — And that color is green. My favorite part of the latest BCS Mess news is the delicious irony that the same week the MWC goes crying to Congress about the unfairness of the BCS, they take the check from ESPN to remain in their subordinate state. Way to ...
Senator Hatch Wants BCS Investigated
moondogsports.com 7/14/2009 — Utah senator Orrin Hatch spelled out what he believes are the disparities of the Bowl Championship Series during a subcommittee meeting on July 7, telling members of the committee on antitrust oversight that a Justice Department investigation into ...
