A.G. Gancarski

Ladies and gentlemen, Auburn is your BCS National Champion. (more)

In light of new reports alleging that the TSA is creating a watch list of individuals who criticized the agency as a form of collective punishment, it’s revealing to note that CNN journalist Drew Griffin was also put on a TSA watch list immediately after he filed reports critical of the organization back in 2008. (more)

The Federal Reserve, under orders from Congress, today named the counterparties of about 21,000 transactions from $3.3 trillion in aid provided to stem the worst financial panic since the Great Depression. (more)

One of my favorite journalistic features at the moment is a series on the sports website Deadspin.com.  The site currently is compiling writing samples from various "student-athletes," in order to determine who is "America's Dumbest Student Athlete."  To be sure, there is no shortage of competition for that title.  From all over the country, entries to this prestigious contest have poured in like submissions to the Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstakes. (more)

As I type this, I am watching former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee on "The Wendy Williams Show" talking about his impending talk show on Fox and am reminded, not for the first time, that quite a few presidential candidates function as if they never expected or even wanted to be president in the first place. They ran to gain a media platform. But few have done so as brazenly as Huckabee, who typically ended his homespun stump homilies with pedestrian pluckings of his bass guitar. (more)

A couple of weeks ago, the state of Florida became home to the biggest free agent signing in the history of pro sports. LeBron James. LeBron James promises no less than seven NBA titles for the Sunshine State. Can it be accomplished? Probably not. Still, it’s refreshing to see ambition poured forth onto such an outsized canvas. (more)

Inarguably, there are parallels between Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley—the two highest-profile pop star deaths of the post-Vietnam era. At the times of their respective deaths, both men’s careers were in terminal decline. Elvis hadn’t had a great single since “In The Ghetto” almost a decade before. And Michael Jackson, the self-proclaimed and trademarked King of Pop? Dan Quayle was a presidential prospect the last time his music was truly relevant. (more)