ANALYSIS/OPINION:
There was a time when a corruption scandal like the one now involving the FBI and wiretaps and illegal payoffs involving players at many of the top schools in the country — including Michigan State, Alabama, Duke and others, including Maryland, according to reports — would have been a fatal blow.
This is not that time.
CBS and Turner Broadcasting are about to begin broadcasting their Super Bowl: March Madness, the NCAA tournament that consumes much of the country for three weeks — programming that the networks paid $10.8 billion for, starting in 2011 and running through 2024.