Orange Bowl News

Legislators who received freebies from the Fiesta Bowl unfit to lead
Ahwatukee Foothills News
Any of our Arizona legislators, be they Democrats or Republicans, conservatives or liberals, men or women, or members of the coffee or tea parties, who aren't smart enough to know that the Fiesta Bowl and/or lobbyists are giving them freebies to curry ...

Bleacher Report
Oklahoma Sooners Football: Could Tragedies Halt the Sooner Schooner?
Bleacher Report
The University of Oklahoma football team has had it's ups and downs since the Sooners defeated the UConn Huskies in the Fiesta Bowl in January. The highpoints all came early with announcements by wide receiver Ryan Broyles and linebacker Travis Lewis ...

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Wake Forest University News Center
Those Sacking Fiesta Bowl Reps Could Themselves Be Sacked
SB Nation (blog)
NCAA president Mark Emmert is throwing resources at the NCAA's bowl licensing subcommittee, we remind you, in the form of a Task Force (capitalized and everything!) mandated to investigate the process. ...
LOCAL BRIEFS: NIU's Peters named to NCAA's bowl task forceDekalb Daily Chronicle

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Boise State University The Arbiter Online
Boise State leads pack for Non-AQ Schools heading into 2011
Boise State University The Arbiter Online
Since 2005, five non-AQ schools have made it as far as a BCS bowl game, with Hawaii's 41-10 loss to Georgia in the 2008 Sugar Bowl being the only blemish (and TCU's loss to BSU in the 2010 Fiesta Bowl). These sub-conference teams have found a knack to ...
Ann Arbor, MIDeseret News

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Input sought on legislators' finance reports
Arizona Republic
In the wake of the Fiesta Bowl controversy, which prompted lawmakers past and present to amend financial-disclosure forms to reflect trips and tickets to college football games, the new House leader is exploring legislation that would sharpen the ...

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Sen. Kyl won't return campaign cash to Fiesta Bowl
BusinessWeek
Politicians who received letters from the Fiesta Bowl requesting that they return tainted campaign contributions are responding, and none appear too happy to be tarred with the same brush as the bowl's ousted CEO. US Sen. ...
Kyl, McCain won't return Fiesta Bowl contributionsVerde Independent

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Fiesta scandal shouldn't tarnish all bowl games
Las Vegas Review - Journal
If the bowl game survives another decade, it follows that there will be another logo, with three X's. If John Junker, the disgraced former CEO of the Fiesta Bowl, survives another decade, this is when I predict MAACO Bowl Las Vegas executive director ...

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Boston Globe
Sen. Kyl won't return campaign cash to Fiesta Bowl
The Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) — Politicians who received letters from the Fiesta Bowl requesting that they return tainted campaign contributions are responding, and none appear too happy to be tarred with the same brush as the bowl's ousted CEO. US Sen. ...
BC-FBC--Fiesta Troubles, 1st Ld,89WLOS
Sen. Kyl won't return campaign cash to Fiesta BowlNewsday (subscription)
Sen. Kyl won't return campaign cash to Fiesta BowlForbes

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APNewsBreak: Fiesta Bowl wants campaign cash back
The Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) — The Fiesta Bowl is seeking the return of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions made to US Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl and other Arizona politicians, according to documents obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. ...
Fiesta Bowl allowed to keep its licenseLos Angeles Times
Fiesta Bowl asks 26 politicians, PACs to return donationsTucson Citizen
Tuesday's Sports In BriefWashington Post
AZ Central.com (blog)
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BCS drops the ball on Fiesta Bowl
Orlando Sentinel
Plagued by accusations of corruption and mismanagement, the future of the Fiesta Bowl hung perilously in the hands of the BCS and its task force. Worst case scenario, the Fiesta Bowl would be dropped from the Bowl Championship Series rotation, ...
BCS has trust problem that carries to computersThe Birmingham News - al.com
Wanna be a man of action? Assign a committeePennLive.com (blog)

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CBSSports.com
Memo to Orange, Sugar Bowls: Note mistakes by Fiesta
CBSSports.com
Now that the Fiesta Bowl has been dissected, fined, sent to time-out and pretty much skewered in the court of public opinion, the focus of the BCS bashers will now turn to the Orange and Sugar. Fiesta Bowl board chairman Duane Woods talks to reporters ...
Fiesta trauma is far from overArizona Republic
BCS prefers new Fiesta Bowl CEO have college experienceBizjournals.com (blog)
Wait, Russell Pearce Might Have Lied About the Fiesta Bowl Scandal?Tucson Weekly
Deseret News -CollegeFootballTalk - NBC Sports (blog) -Rivals.com (subscription)
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Fox News
Question of the day: Should the Fiesta Bowl have been allowed to stay in the ...
Los Angeles Times
It shouldn't be a surprise the Fiesta Bowl was able to maintain its position within the Bowl Championship Series after a scandal within the group uncovered illegal campaign contributions from staff and lavish spending by former CEO John Junker on ...
Fiesta Bowl fined $1 million, stays part of BCSSan Francisco Chronicle
It's party time for the Fiesta BowlFOXSports.com
Release: 'Six other reforms' necessary for FiestaCBSSports.com (blog)
ESPN (blog) -Washington Post -Salt Lake Tribune
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