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Senate reviewing how college football picks No. 1
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| 3/26/09
| Fred Frommer
Posted on 03/26/2009 6:46:50 AM PDT by pissant
WASHINGTON (AP) Everyone from President Barack Obama on down to fans has criticized how college football determines its top team. Now senators are getting off the sidelines to examine antitrust issues involving the Bowl Champion Series.
The current system "leaves nearly half of all the teams in college football at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to qualifying for the millions of dollars paid out every year," the Senate Judiciary's subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy and consumer rights said in a statement Wednesday announcing the hearings.
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To: Ogie Oglethorpe
Ditto from this corner.
Let Congress work on a playoff system and leave the country alone.
My latest missive to my Congressman, who has said he will not seek reelection, told him that his asinine voting record, for TARP, For confiscatory tax on AIG bonuses ex post facto, For mandatory servitude makes it obvious that an empty chair would serve as a better representative and defender of the Constitution than he.
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posted on
03/26/2009 7:51:48 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
To: pissant
I think I got screwed over in the office basketball pool. Maybe the Senate will hold hearings on that since apparently they have nothing better to do.
Here's a suggestion for the Senate: Stop holding hearings on trivialities and you might actually have the time to read legislation before you vote on it.
In response to another post, the NCAA is a private association. Therefore, I think the Senate needs to butt out and let the private organization deal with its own problems.
To: mnehring
How un-progressive of you. For one thing, debate would mean there is one right side and one wrong side and someone is dissenting against the right side. All that would mean is that the wrong side can't concentrate and a special camp would need to be made to help them learn that. As for battle bots.. you warmonger!!!! I was going to add that the debate teams would have to work out a compromise over a 2 hour period, or be replaced with a blue ribbon commission that would only get 30 minutes. The battle-bot idea fulfills the human need for contact sports.
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posted on
03/26/2009 8:15:33 AM PDT
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; Allerious; ...
In the House, Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, the top Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee, has sponsored legislation that would prevent the NCAA from calling a football game a "national championship" unless the game culminates from a playoff system.
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posted on
03/26/2009 8:22:36 AM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: pissant
Unbelievable, isn’t it?
Anything else this RAT congress wants to meddle in?
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posted on
03/26/2009 8:26:41 AM PDT
by
GOP_Lady
To: bamahead
We need a clean sweep of both the Executive and Legislative branches. Why in HELL are they wasting more taxpayer money to address something they have no business addressing?
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posted on
03/26/2009 8:27:50 AM PDT
by
Born Conservative
(Bohicaville: http://bohicaville.wordpress.com/)
To: all the best
It is none of the governments business. This is insane. Would you rather have Congress focused on this issue or trying to "fix" the economy?
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posted on
03/26/2009 8:27:54 AM PDT
by
Wyatt's Torch
(I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
To: pissant
Oh thank god! I’m glad something may finally be done about this.
Does that need a sarcasm tag?
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posted on
03/26/2009 8:30:07 AM PDT
by
redk
To: GOP_Raider
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posted on
03/26/2009 8:30:20 AM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: all the best
I look at it as a good thing. As long as this congress can occupy their tiem with stuff like this, they will be unable to work on Porkulus II or something which will really damage the country further.
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posted on
03/26/2009 8:30:21 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
To: pissant
Citizens should demand a 90% tax on their freakin’ salaries for wasting our damn money!
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posted on
03/26/2009 8:31:39 AM PDT
by
Hatteras
To: Born Conservative
Because most Americans are either a) apathetic and don’t care (or even realize), or ... b) actually want them to interfere in matters which they have no power - like trying to ram through Ex Post Facto laws such as last week’s fiasco.
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posted on
03/26/2009 8:32:03 AM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: bamahead
Rep. Joe Barton of Texas is a freaking genius to get congress focused on stuff like this! I mean that sincerely. There is no way the Republicans can outvote this stuck-on-stupid congress, so the next best thing is to divert them.
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posted on
03/26/2009 8:34:03 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
To: Wyatt's Torch
trying to "fix" the economy?
I was just thinking this morning that they should apply all their economic-social engineering to professional sports, first, to see how it works out before damaging the country. Salary caps, tax Super Bowl bonuses at 90%, required jobs to go to unskilled laborers, impose racial quotas ... the whole lot. I suppose they could start with college sports ... hadn't thought of that.
Just daydreaming.
To: pissant
We have to do something right now.
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posted on
03/26/2009 8:36:37 AM PDT
by
GSWarrior
(We have to do something right now.)
To: bamahead
Isn't that peculiar!
That's exactly what Zero Hussein is doing with America!
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posted on
03/26/2009 8:40:49 AM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(WHERE'S MY BAILOUT!!!!!)
To: JustSurrounded
As an FYI, I am a HUGE college football fan (Auburn). Do I want Congress meddling in the system,? No because if anyone can screw it up, they can. But I'd rather them screw that up (The BCS is already badly broken) than screw what is left of our republic...
And don't get me started on professional sports and salary caps. I am as big a capitalist as there is (my screen name came from Atlas Shrugged) in the world but look at the one sport who congress has authority over (baseball) and its "capitalist" system is destroying the product. MLB is a horribly run organization. The NFL and NBA with their salary caps are far better run and far more "competitive" and entertaining. JMHO of course...
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posted on
03/26/2009 8:43:09 AM PDT
by
Wyatt's Torch
(I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
To: pissant
The current system “leaves nearly half of all the teams in college football at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to qualifying for the millions of dollars paid out every year,” Isn't this the same issue with every school? Alarmingly, half of all students are “below average.”
These people are crazy.
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posted on
03/26/2009 9:05:06 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Cancel liberal newspaper, magazine & cable TV subscriptions (Free TV-dtv.gov). Stop funding the MSM.)
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posted on
03/26/2009 9:20:43 AM PDT
by
GOP_Raider
(Have you risen above your own public education today?)
To: Vigilanteman
Except they always find the time and energy for even more destruction. It is their nature.
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