RCS
In 1997, when the Arizona-based Copper Bowl was rechristened the “Insight.com Bowl”—and billed as “the first bowl game to be sponsored by an electronic commerce Web site”—it touched a nerve. Sports columnists called the tech suffix “ridiculous.” To echo one cantankerous newspaper writer: “What next? A flag game matching sororities, sponsored by AirTouch?”
Be careful what you wish for. More than a decade later, the Peach Bowl and the Citrus Bowl have been replaced by the Chick-fil-A Bowl and the Capital One Bowl (COF), respectively. The Humanitarian Bowl is no more—it’s now the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. Teams from the Big East and Conference USA conferences duke it out in the Beef...
If it's the third week of December, it must be time for the 16-team FBS playoffs. The selection committee has made its at-large selections, now it's just a matter of putting together the matchups of the eight first-round... more »
Northern Illinois earned a BCS bowl berth. The outrage! There was so much piling on during the ESPN show unveiling the BCS bowl selections that it could've easily been mistaken for a post-election program dissecting the... more »
Bear with me while I overuse the Cinderella analogy to describe how Northern Illinois is heading to the Orange Bowl. As I watched the No. 21 Huskies defeat No. 17 Kent State in a double-OT, MAC Championship Game last Friday that... more »
HAHAHAHAHAHA! AHHHH-HAHAHAHAHA! Northern Illinois? Hee-hee hee-hee heeeee…Northern Illinois vs. Florida State in the Orange Bowl? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Understand Huskies, I’m not laughing at you. I’m laughing at... more »
During his 32 years in college athletics, Jim Livengood has hired and fired coaches, endured an NCAA investigation and served as chairman of the NCAA men's basketball selection committee. On Nov. 26, Sports Illustrated... more »
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