Ronald Hart is a syndicated op-ed humorist, award-wining author and TV/radio commentator. His columns are carried in over forty newspapers and online publications including USA Today, Forbes, The Dally Caller, Orange County Register, Dallas News and Panama City News Herald.

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College football and the feds: You say 'Go Bama!,' I say Obama

Congress found time to have hearings on steroid use in Major League Baseball, and Obama has spent considerable federal time and effort trying to get college football's Bowl Championship Series to do as he wants.

He went so far as to involve the Justice Department, using anti-trust laws to try to pressure the NCAA into "changing" the BCS system. While the president is concentrating on the burning BCS issue, hopefully the NCAA and Major League Baseball can work on the economy, wars, deficit spending and the unemployment rate.

Clearly, college football is much too important in the South to involve the federal government. Like most things that thrive and that people enjoy, there is little-to-no federal government involvement in college football.

The Southeastern Conference has won the national title six years in a row now, and before that the national champion was the University of Texas.This has troubled Obama, spurring him into using the powers of his federal...full column text

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