ESPN's Bowling for Dollars With BCS

ESPN is the rich Uncle Pennybags of sports broadcasting, that dapper old swell from Monopoly who functions as the benign face of rapacious capitalism.

Crisp C-notes bursting from the pockets of its tuxedo jacket, the sports giant snatches up every sports property on which it alights, running the gamut from lowly Baltic Avenue (The Bassmasters) to Boardwalk (Monday Night Football) before the competition so much as passes “Go.”

Perhaps nothing illustrates ESPN’s rapacity quite like the college football bowl season.

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