While the majority of the sport-watching community is a tizzy over tennis, or soccer, or baseball, I’m counting down the hours until the start of college football season. Nothing against tennis, soccer, or baseball: they are all fine sports. Even the Senate doesn’t know what to do with itself without football: Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) sought a hearing to look at whether Bowl Championship Series is in compliance with federal antitrust laws. Citing the Sherman Antitrust Act, Hatch suggests that the BCS does nothing more than reduce competition, and suggests that the Senate must step in to ensure a change, preferably to a play-off type situation. I am glad that Congress has nothing more pressing to spend time on than college football. It makes me feel like I’m really dedicating my time to something useful and important by blogging about it. Thanks for the ego boost, Senators! Look, this is the second time this year that Congress decided to look into this mess, so I won’t cover it here. They keep looking at it and looking at it and nothing ever changes. (more…)

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