Taylor Branch

January 29, 2013

The college football bowl season is in full swing. None of the players is getting paid to play in the bowl games -- or any other game for that matter. Historian Taylor Branch says we should change that. Tom Hall talks with Branch about the Bowl Championship Series and the state of college sports.

The seemingly endless stream of college football bowl games has been underway for the last few days. Two of the four Bowl Championship Series games, the Rose Bowl and the Orange Bowl, were played yesterday. The Sugar Bowl is tonight. The Fiesta Bowl is tomorrow night, and on Monday night, the BCS National Championship Game will pit undefeated Notre Dame against Alabama.

This conversation originally aired on November 24, 2009.

A long search finds the spot where colonial Maryland shielded Native Americans. Plus, Taylor Branch on the colonialist slant of the NCAA. And how the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts … became MICA.