deseretnews.com - 7/3/2009
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University of Utah President Michael Young is expected to report a robbery to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday — of his university's shot at a national football championship last season. Young is scheduled to be the lead-off witness at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing titled, "The Bowl ...
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
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 - ...
online.wsj.com - 7/7/2009
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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
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... Lee Davidson, Deseret News: Utah president Michael Young is expected to be the leadoff witness at Tuesday's Senate Antitrust Subcommittee hearing titled, "The Bowl Championship Series: Is it Fair and in Compliance with Antitrust Law?" Other scheduled witnesses included Harvey Perlman, chancellor of the University of Nebraska and leader of the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee; antitrust lawyer William Monts III, who has said the BCS does not violate antitrust laws; and antitrust lawyer Barry Brett. ...
BCS Hearings Are Upon Us
Mountain West Connection —
... Shurtleff pretending to care about the BCS, and then most recently an interview with Harvey Perlman who threatens to turn around this car.
The hearings begin tomorrow at 2:30 PM EDT and currently the only place to watch a webcast of the hearings is at the Senate Judiciary website, no word if one of the C-Span channels will carry it.
Now to who will be appearing in this three ring circus; first up will be Utah President Michael Young then Harvey Perlman, chancellor of ...
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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?”
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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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