One year ago this month, I opined about taxpayers footing the bill for several college football bowl games. Today, I decided to revisit the college football bowl scene and find out who’s sponsoring this year’s post-season gridiron clashes. [Note: I brought this back to the front page of this blog after it was cross-posted Christmas [...]
Bowl Game Sponsorships Receive Second Look Amidst Year of Bank Bailouts and TARP Loans
December 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
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‘Irritable Bowl Syndrome’ Under Control in 2009
December 7th, 2009 · No Comments
“Irritable Bowl Syndrome,” the affliction first identified among fans of the Texas Longhorns football team in December 2008, seems to be under control in 2009. They are, after all, set to take on the top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide in the BCS National Championship Game Jan. 7 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. You might recall [...]
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Trojans Win Rose, Hokies Win Orange, Fans Bored
January 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
Though college football fans were treated to a back-to-back pair of dull bowl games, I was able to add one more win and one more loss to my predictions record for the bowl game season. In the first game, played in Pasadena, Calif., the #5 USC Trojans defeated the #8 Penn State Nittany Lions, 38-24, [...]
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Kansas Defeats Minnesota in Insight Bowl — Yawn
January 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment
The Big 12 North’s Kansas Jayhawks defeated the Big Ten’s Minnesota Golden Gophers, 42-21, late yesterday afternoon in the Insight Bowl in Tempe, Ariz. Because the game was aired on NFL Network, I didn’t watch it and will not give spend much time writing about the efforts of these two unranked teams. I will, however, [...]
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Taxpayers Foot Bill for College Football Bowls
December 30th, 2008 · No Comments
It appears writer Eric Crawford was ahead of the journalistic pack with his article that appeared in the Louisville Courier-Journal on Black Friday — the one after Thanksgiving, not Christmas. In Bailout Bowl, Presented By You and Me, he highlighted the many instances in which taxpayers — hence, “You and Me” in his headline — [...]
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College Football Bowl Game Predictions Offered
December 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Due to the fact that there are seven — count ‘em, seven — Big 12 Conference teams involved in college football bowl games between Dec. 29 and Jan. 8, I decided to include all of their games as well as all of the BCS bowl games in my predictions this year which appear below: Monday, [...]
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USC Trojans Defeat Fighting Illini, 49-17
January 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
The USC Trojans rolled over the Illinois Fighting Illini in the Rose Bowl tonight, 49-17, leading me to conclude that I probably overestimated the weaknesses of Ron Zook’s squad when I picked them to lose by 35 in my bowl game predictions post yesterday. Certainly, the prospect of playing Pete Carroll’s squad in Pasadena must [...]
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