As reported a few weeks ago, Playoff PAC has challenged the tax-exempt status of the BCS.

Now, four congressmen have joined the mix, urging the Internal Revenue Service to indeed review the tax status for the BCS. The four are, Joe Barton (R-TX), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Gene Green (D-TX), and Jason Chaffetz (R-UT).

Barton has sponsored a bill in Congress to force a change to a playoff system to determine the national champion. Lummis is the co-sponsor of that bill. Green has asked for an investigation into the BCS system by the justice department. Chaffetz is a former BYU kicker.

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Investigators with the North Carolina Secretary of State's office recently interviewed NFL agent Gary Wichard into the state's ongoing investigation of the University of North Carolina's football program.

The interview lasted about two hours, though no details have emerged in regard to the interview. Wichard has been a person of interest due to his longtime friendship with former UNC assistant coach John Blake.

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Mark Emmert, chosen to be the successor to Myles Brand as NCAA president, completed his first day at headquarters. Brand passed away in September 2009 and the NCAA was under the direction of Jim Isch in the interm.

"It's been a long transition, but we in academia don't ever do things quickly," Emmert joked. "I want to see what the opportunities are to expand the interaction of what the organization can do beyond the sports world." 

"The first order of business is to meet everyone in the office and to get out there and start listening to the constituents and hearing what their concerns and ideas are," Emmert told the Associated Press. "I've talked a great deal about the need to stay focused on the student-athlete, the academic progress of the student-athlete."

- Fred Sakai