From the article:

HOUSTON — Calling the Bowl Championship Series “deeply flawed,” the chairman of a congressional committee has called a hearing on the controversial system used to determine college football’s national champion.

A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee, charged with regulating America’s sports industry, announced Friday it will conduct a hearing on the BCS next week, after this season’s bowl matchups are determined.

“College football is not just an exhilarating sport, but a billion-dollar business that Congress cannot ignore,” said committee Chairman Joe Barton, a Texas Republican. Barton’s panel is separate from the House Government Reform panel that tackled steroids in baseball.

You might remember Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) as the same House Chairman who decided to intimidate the scientists behind a peer-reviewed global warming study released by the UN IPCC because he didn’t like the conclusions.

You’d think we had nothing important going on right now worth debate or investigation. Between the steroid hearings (useless), Sen. Specter advocating for T.O. (Congress intervening for the labor rights of millionaires, woo hoo!), and this, clearly things must be super-rosy right now that entertainment is the top issue of the day.

GRRR.

(Found via Atrios, though he linked to the article at CNN/SI (boo!))