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The 2006 Boise State football season and 2007 Fiesta Bowl win was a moment Bronco fans will be talking about for generations. For many it is still fresh and it has fans saying -- "Why not a repeat performance for the 2008 Broncos?" They are off to a 6-0 start, and combined with the first BCS ranking that were released Sunday, it has Bronco nation excited about another trip to a BCS bowl game. The Broncos debuted at number 12 in the BCS, but even before the rankings were released, a representative from the Orange Bowl was in town to...

FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allied military and the family members of the above. Honoring those who have served before. FOOTBALL FACTS Thanks for joining us once again as we look at some football facts. This time we’ll look at "From a regional to a National sport. From 1930-1958" In the early 1930s, the college game continued to grow, particularly in the south, bolstered by fierce rivalries such as the "Third Saturday in October"—a rivalry between Alabama and Tennessee. While prior to the mid-1920s most national powers came from...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) - The Orange Bowl hosted a dozen games that decided college football's national championship, five Super Bowls and a speech by John F. Kennedy. Miami football called it home for seven decades — but after this year, no more. The Hurricanes will play at Dolphin Stadium starting in 2008, leaving the historic but decaying Orange Bowl in what university president Donna Shalala called "a painful and sad decision." University trustees voted to make the move Tuesday, despite the offer of $206 million by city officials to renovate one of Miami's best-known landmarks. With the Hurricanes set...

LIFE AFTER FIDEL CASTRO When Castro dies, the party's on. The city of Miami plans to respond to Fidel Castro's death -- whenever that may be -- with a celebration at the Orange Bowl.One day, very possibly one day soon, ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro will die -- and a nascent committee sponsored by the city of Miami wants to be ready. So it's planning a party. The event, still in the very early planning stage, would be held in Little Havana's Orange Bowl stadium -- and might include commemorative T-shirts, a catchy slogan and bands that will make your...

Miami Plans Castro Death Party in Orange Bowl Monday , January 29, 2007 AP MIAMI — With Fidel Castro seriously ill, the city of Miami is making plans to throw a party at the Orange Bowl when the Cuban president dies. The city commission earlier this month appointed a committee — whose official job is to "Discuss an event at the Orange Bowl in case expected events occur in Cuba" — to plan the party. Such a gathering has long been part of the city's Castro death plan, but firming up the specifics has become more urgent since Castro became...

The city of Miami is planning an official celebration at the Orange Bowl whenever Cuban president Fidel Castro dies. Discussions by a committee appointed earlier this month by the city commission to plan the event have even covered issues such as a theme to be printed on T-shirts, what musicians would perform, the cost and how long the celebration would last. Such a gathering has long been part of the city's plan for Castro's death, but firming up the specifics has been more urgent since Castro became ill last summer and turned over power to his brother, Raul. City Commissioner...

Molly Ivins, whose biting columns mixed liberal populism with an irreverent Texas wit, died at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at her home in Austin after an up-and-down battle with breast cancer she had waged for seven years. She was 62. Ms. Ivins, the Star-Telegram’s political columnist for nine years ending in 2001, had written for the New York Times, the Dallas Times-Herald and Time magazine and had long been a sought-after pundit on the television talk-show circuit to provide a Texas slant on issues ranging from President Bush’s pedigree to the culture wars rooted in the 1960s. "She was magical in...

Disabled trumpeter, dad steal the show A member of the Louisville Cardinals marching band -- who is blind and in a wheelchair -- never fails to inspire when he takes the field with the help of his father. BY MICHELLE KAUFMAN The most inspirational team in the Orange Bowl this year, the one that best exemplifies courage and willpower, is not Louisville or Wake Forest. It is the team of Patrick Henry Hughes and his father, Patrick John Hughes, who will perform a feat more remarkable than anything displayed by the extraordinary athletes on the Dolphin Stadium field. Patrick Henry...

Here is the day we have all been waiting for. The "New Year's Day" bowl games are on the day after, but there are some great matchups today. Look at at least 2 upsets....

Great game. Anybody watching?

THe selection show is on at 6 PM. Pretty much the picks have been decided. There is only some doubt whether ND or Oregon gets the final at-large berth. 2005-2006 Bowl Matchups Past Bowl Projections: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11Means accepted bid WYNDHAM NEW ORLEANS BOWL - Lafayette, Louisiana December 20, 2005  ESPN Cajun Field, 30,000 Sun Belt No. 1 vs. C-USA CFN Projection: Arkansas State vs. Southern Missalso considered: Memphis, Houston POINSETTIA BOWL -...

In this case, if Ashlee Simpson had flashed a breast, the FCC probably would have let it go. After all, agencies of the federal government are there to protect the citizenry from any sort of injury or harm. Ashlee’s performance at halftime of Tuesday night’s Orange Bowl in Miami was about as close as a singer gets to committing aggravated assault. If she had only taken a lesson from Janet Jackson, the world would be talking today about the exposure of a boob rather than a fraud. --SNIP-- I happened to look out the window and noticed that some of...

Halftime of the Orange Bowl featured a number of musical acts. Last on stage was Ashlee Simpson, famous for her hilarious lip-synching disaster on Saturday Night Live. Well, everything went according to plan this time, but the entire Orange Bowl jeered when she was introduced, and jeered when she was done singing. If it hadn't been so funny, it might have been sad...

MIAMI (AP) _ To O.J. Simpson, the lure of seeing his alma mater play so close to home in this Orange Bowl was impossible to turn down. ``I'll be in the stands cheering as loud as anybody for USC,'' Simpson told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Monday. ``I can't wait. I always follow SC _ always have, always will,'' he said. Simpson said he hasn't seen the Trojans play in person for about 10 years, though he has watched most of their games on television during that time. But he lives only 30 miles or so southwest of...

O.J. Simpson plans to root like crazy at the Orange Bowl. His attorney, Yale Galanter, monitored the telephone call and wouldn't allow Simpson to say where he'll be sitting inside the stadium.

NEW YORK (AP) - The Bowl Championship Series is ready to move on without The Associated Press college football poll. "I wasn't surprised by the AP's decision," Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese said. "I don't think it's a negative issue. We're just going to have to put our heads together and come up with an alternative way of picking the teams for the 1-2 game." The Associated Press told the BCS on Tuesday to stop using its poll to determine which teams play for a national title. BCS coordinator and Big 12 commissioner Kevin Weiberg has said the BCS hopes...

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LOS ANGELES -- Southern California believes it should be in the BCS. "I hope everyone was paying attention and saw the score," said Trojans quarterback Carson Palmer after his team's 44-13 demolition of Notre Dame on Saturday. "They need to know that we're for real now. We are definitely worthy of being a BCS team." Stop the stumping, for now. The Trojans are a BCS bowl team. Locked in, as a matter of fact, unless Miami loses its season finale to Virginia Tech. The new BCS ratings Monday will most likely show the Trojans have moved up to No. 4....