Politician out to quash BCS

The push to rid ourselves of the joke known as the Bowl Championship Series continues to pick up steam.

Rep. Edolphus Towns, the new chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, told USA Today this week he will hold hearings and plans to call everyone from presidents to players.

"Nobody questions the Super Bowl," he told the newspaper. "The team that wins is the best team that year. I think we can do the same thing at the college level where once it's over there is no question about who is No. 1 and who is No. 2."

His committee can't create a playoff, but it can apply pressure on college football by investigating whether the BCS violates antitrust laws.

The BCS at least violates the sense of fairness that cost a school like Utah any realistic hope for a national title despite solid credentials.

• FALLING HARD -- The American Football Coaches Association meetings in Nashville, Tenn., must have been dull, so two assistants tried to liven them up by wrestling too close to the window on the hotel's fourth floor. They fell through the window and landed on the concrete sidewalk.

Scott Coy, co-offensive coordinator at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pa., was in critical but stable condition with a broken pelvis and leg. Darren DeMeio, Westminster's running backs coach, had a broken vertebra.

Here's hoping they will be OK and that this is a hard-earned lesson for both that they are supposed to be leaders of young men.

• GOOD RIDDANCE -- Southern California coach Pete Carroll admitted he tried to talk Mark Sanchez out of going pro early and apparently isn't happy with the quarterback's decision.

He refused to sit with Sanchez at the table during the news conference and "stormed out of the room," according to the Los Angeles Daily News.

"I'm getting the feeling Mark Sanchez will not be honored at any functions in the near future," the Daily News' Scott Wolf wrote in a blog.

• LOOKS GOOD ON A RESUME -- Andrew Hatch probably will realize several years from now when he's making a six- or seven-figure salary the wise decision he just made.

After the Cimarron-Memorial High School graduate began his college football career at Harvard, he then went on a two-year Mormon mission before deciding to play quarterback at Louisiana State.

Now after failing to keep the starting job after winning it in preseason, Hatch is heading back to Harvard. He never will be an NFL quarterback, but a degree from perhaps the world's greatest university one day could make him a captain of industry.

• ANOTHER REASON TO PREFER FOOTBALL -- Walk into any arena or gym in the country, and the home basketball fans think their team is getting jobbed. Happened at Wednesday's UNLV-Colorado State women's game, when during the first half a fan yelled the officials weren't making enough calls on the Rams.

At the time, Colorado State had nine fouls to UNLV's three.

COMPILED BY MARK ANDERSON LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL