
Making the morning rounds.
• Meet your new Secretary of ‘Process.’ Alabama will be making the championship pilgrimage to the White House next week, where the team will tour the capital and meet with President Obama, who coach Nick Saban reportedly invited to participate in the coaching staff’s lunchtime basketball games in the spring. Not that Don Nicky has time for anything as trivial as partisan politics, of course, but note that he couldn’t even be bothered for dinner with President Bush during Miami Dolphins training camp four years ago. The only question next week: How deep will Obama bow? [Associated Press]
• While I was in town, I thought I’d stop by … Elsewhere in capital news, Utah attorney general and noted BCS hater Mark Shurtleff took advantage of a weekend visit to D.C. to lobby U.S. attorney general Eric Holder to initiate an antitrust investigation or lawsuit against the BCS. Shurtleff said his federal counterpart was “very interested” in the idea: “This could be a multi-hundred million lawsuit,” he told the Web site Legal Newsline. “Ultimately the goal is not to get money but to get them to change the system to be more competitive.” Holder should be familiar with Shurtleff’s arguments, as his department is already formally investigating the Series for possible action. [Legal Newsline]
• This just in: Speculative fantasy. The top sports story in the world on Tuesday afternoon, according to ESPN.com? Tebow Photoshop!

The WWL put together a team-by-team analysis of where Tebow might land (as Tebow-obsessed blogger Dan Shanoff notes, apparently no team has better than a “medium” chance of drafting the much-scrutinized quarterback, including the Jaguars, who have a “low” chance despite a fan movement to keep Tebow at home), a heck of a nod to a guy who figures to fall to the second round as the fourth or fifth QB off the board. [Tim Teblog]
Quickly … More on the Taylor Mays 40 discrepancy. … The Miami Herald looks at the Hurricanes’ crowded receiver rotation. … And Terrelle Pryor talks about his surgically repaired knee, which was worse than he expected before doctors went in last month.