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Country music, even in the depths, is essentially Christian: it sees a happy ending, if not in this life, then in eternity. Death is a "sweet bluebonnet spring" ("When we die we say we'll catch some blackbird's wings/ And we will fly away to heaven") in the gorgeous remake of her Gulf Coast Highway, a duet with Hootie's Darius Rucker. His gruff baritone and Griffith's twangy soprano soar apart, then join in double rapture. The instrumentation--string quintet, Floyd Cramerish rolling piano, electric slide guitar--makes the song a pretty little anthology of pop's fine...
...East-West Shrine Bowl and the Blue-Gray Classic, all all-star games. There are the four major Bowls--Sugar, Orange, Rose and Cotton--the four next-to-major bowls--Peach, Gator, Sun and Fiesta--and a smattering of junk bowls, foremost among them the Liberty, Tangerine and Bluebonnet...
...Bluebonnet Bowl, December 31, at Houston. A disillusioned and slumping Texas squad (7-4) tries to defend Lone Star honor against North Carolina (10-1), the class of the ACC. A close one, but look for an N.C. upset...
...BLUEBONNET BOWL: Purdue (9-2) vs. Tennessee (7-4)--Sorry, Wilson Schlichter, McDonald et al., but Purdue's Mark Herrmann is the best quarterback in the country. The Vols are a strong 7-4, but any 9-2 Big Ten team can whip a 7-4 SEC team, Johny Majors notwithstanding. Purdue 31, Tennessee...
...procession of the high priests of collegiate golf filed into Houston over the weekend for the first annual Bluebonnet Bowl Golf Invitational. Making the Christmas pilgrimmage were Harvard co-captains Spence Fitzgibbons and Jim Dales, who were outshone by the heavenly host of big name golfers from powers like Houston, Texas Tech, and New Mexico State...