Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights
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Category : Antitrust law
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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The Bowl Championship Series
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights
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Category : Antitrust law
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Category : Antitrust law
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Antitrust & The Bowl Championship Series
Author: Nathaniel Grow
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Languages : en
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This Article analyzes the potential antitrust liability of the Bowl Championship Series (“BCS”), college football's current system for selecting the participants of both the national championship game as well as other highly desirable post-season bowl games. The BCS has recently been attacked by various politicians and law enforcement officials, who allege that the system constitutes an illegal restraint of trade due to its preferential treatment of universities from certain traditionally stronger conferences, at the expense of teams from historically less competitive conferences. Meanwhile, the academic literature considering the antitrust status of the BCS is mixed, with most recent commentaries concluding that the BCS alleviated any antitrust concerns by revising its selection procedures in 2004. Contrary to these recent scholarly analyses, this Article argues that the BCS remains vulnerable to antitrust attack on two primary grounds. First, the BCS continues to be susceptible to an illicit group boycott claim, insofar as it distributes revenue unequally and without justification to the detriment of universities from the disfavored conferences. Second, the BCS can be attacked as an illegal price fixing scheme, both by enabling formerly independent, competing conferences and bowl games to collectively determine the amount of revenue to be distributed to BCS participants, as well as by eliminating any competition between certain BCS bowls for the sale of their broadcast rights to television networks. However, the BCS appears less susceptible to a claim of illegal tying, despite its collective marketing of the television broadcast rights for the BCS bowl games, because television networks are not actually coerced into purchasing the broadcast rights to an unwanted bowl game. Therefore, although the outcome of any antitrust trial is notoriously difficult to predict, this Article concludes that the BCS remains quite vulnerable to antitrust attack.
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This Article analyzes the potential antitrust liability of the Bowl Championship Series (“BCS”), college football's current system for selecting the participants of both the national championship game as well as other highly desirable post-season bowl games. The BCS has recently been attacked by various politicians and law enforcement officials, who allege that the system constitutes an illegal restraint of trade due to its preferential treatment of universities from certain traditionally stronger conferences, at the expense of teams from historically less competitive conferences. Meanwhile, the academic literature considering the antitrust status of the BCS is mixed, with most recent commentaries concluding that the BCS alleviated any antitrust concerns by revising its selection procedures in 2004. Contrary to these recent scholarly analyses, this Article argues that the BCS remains vulnerable to antitrust attack on two primary grounds. First, the BCS continues to be susceptible to an illicit group boycott claim, insofar as it distributes revenue unequally and without justification to the detriment of universities from the disfavored conferences. Second, the BCS can be attacked as an illegal price fixing scheme, both by enabling formerly independent, competing conferences and bowl games to collectively determine the amount of revenue to be distributed to BCS participants, as well as by eliminating any competition between certain BCS bowls for the sale of their broadcast rights to television networks. However, the BCS appears less susceptible to a claim of illegal tying, despite its collective marketing of the television broadcast rights for the BCS bowl games, because television networks are not actually coerced into purchasing the broadcast rights to an unwanted bowl game. Therefore, although the outcome of any antitrust trial is notoriously difficult to predict, this Article concludes that the BCS remains quite vulnerable to antitrust attack.
The Bowl Championship Series
Author: United States Congress
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781978181540
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Languages : en
Pages : 248
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The Bowl Championship Series: is it fair and in compliance with antitrust law? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, July 7, 2009.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781978181540
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Languages : en
Pages : 248
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The Bowl Championship Series: is it fair and in compliance with antitrust law? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, July 7, 2009.
Competition in College Athletic Conferences and Antitrust Aspects of the Bowl Championship Series
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Antitrust Impliatications of the Bowl Championship Series Under Section 1 of the Serman Act
Author: Cody R. Noble
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Category : Antitrust law
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Category : Antitrust law
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Is There Still a "C" in BCS?
Author: Richard Scow
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Category : Antitrust law
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Category : Antitrust law
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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The Bowl Championship Series: Is It Fair and In Compliance With Antitrust Law? S. Hrg. 111-352, July 7, 2009, 111-1 Hearing, *
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Languages : en
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Antitrust Implications of the College Bowl Alliance
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and Competition
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Competition in College Athletic Conferences and Antitrust Aspects of the Bowl Championship Series : Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress
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BCS Or Bust
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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