I’d heard about this but forgotten it. Three weeks ago the much-reviled-with-good-reason Bowl Championship Series hired Ari Fleischer to flack for it. Presumably the sports plutocrats hope he’ll be able to stonewall the cries for a college football playoff system as well as he did the Washington press corps when working for George Bush.
“Up is down-ism” probably won’t work as well with nasty sports reporters as it did with access-hungry political ones, I’m guessing.