Politics Reason Writers Around Town: Radley Balko on Keeping Politicians Out of Sports for ESPN Reason Staff | 1.8.2009 9:20 AM Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on RedditShare by emailPrint friendly versionCopy page URLMedia Contact & Reprint Requests Over at ESPNtheMag.com, Radley Balko argues that politicians are the last people we should be asking to fix college football's Bowl Championship Series—or, for that matter, whatever other problems might be afflicting the sports world.