USA Today and the Star-Advertiser report that Hawai‘i Attorney General David Louie might be interested in joining Utah in a lawsuit challenging the legality of the college football Bowl Championship Series.
Utah AG Mark Shurtleff argues the BCS violates antitrust law by depriving equal access to top bowl bids to schools like the University of Hawai‘i that don’t belong to BCS conferences.
It was a pet issue of Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s when he was in Congress, but I’m not seeing where Hawai‘i has enough of a beef for it to be worth the time and expense of getting involved in the lawsuit when we have more pressing concerns.
The only year UH played well enough to be worthy of a BCS appearance, in the undefeated season of 2007-2008, the Warriors received an invitation to the BCS Sugar Bowl. We didn’t exactly prove we belonged in the 41-10 loss to Georgia.
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A couple of court cases yesterday:
• Honolulu prosecutors threw the book at former beauty queen Susan Shaw in a $200,000 identity theft and credit card fraud case, refusing to negotiate the charges, and she was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
• Retired University of Hawaii math professor David Stegenga got a plea deal of five years probation with no jail time for sexually assaulting a neighbor girl from 1999 to 2005, when she was between the ages of 7 and 13, in a crime that often causes major long-term trauma for the victim.
How is this right? What are our values?
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