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...usual, there is a full deck of crappy bowls. Littering your TV during various parts of the vacation will be the Las Vegas Bowl, Motor City Bowl, Aloha and Oahu Bowls, Insight.Com Bowl, Music City Bowl and Micron PC Bowl. There's also one called the Humanitarian Bowl. If its name were true, they wouldn't play it. Idaho vs. Southern Mississippi? Pass the leftovers...
...college bowl system. The Bowl Championship Series is supposed to match the two best teams in the country. On Jan. 4, No. 1 Tennessee will play No. 2 Florida State in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl...
Meanwhile, No. 4 Kansas State, which lost one game, in double overtime, no less, didn't even get a BCS spot and is playing in the Alamo Bowl. For a team that went into the last week of the season ranked No. 1, this is worse than kissing your sister or whatever else those kinky Yalies have come up with...
Those a bit closer to the game had another opinion of Rozelle: as a shrewd promoter of his sport. He invented the Super Bowl, for example, and sold the rights to the first game to two networks (NBC and CBS), which forced them to compete for viewers. He invented (with ABC Sports chief Roone Arledge) Monday Night Football, which is the second longest running prime-time show on American television, after 60 Minutes. He exhibited a taste for kitsch and spectacle unrivaled in professional sports. He loved floats and glitter and marching bands. His idea of beauty was a balloon...
...better personified the vitality of the American Dream in the second half of the 20th century than Sam Walton. A scrappy, sharp-eyed bantam rooster of a boy, Walton grew up in the Depression dust bowl of Oklahoma and Missouri, where he showed early signs of powerful ambition: Eagle Scout at an improbably young age and quarterback of the Missouri state-champion high school football team. He earned money to help his struggling family by throwing newspapers and selling milk from the cow. After graduating from the University of Missouri, he served in the Army during World War II. Then...