Fiesta Bowl

News
December 15, 2011
College Football's Fleecing of American Universities
How insiders use the bowl system to loot the colleges that support it.
Blogs
April 15, 2011
Whitt's End: 4.15.11
Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *If the Mavericks lose in the first round to the Trail Blazers, Rick Carlisle should be fired. The window propped open by 33-year-old Dirk Nowitzki is closing, and 50-something wins without a ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2011
Bad News for Fiesta Good News For Cotton?
Following yesterday's release of that damning, mammoth report about all flavor of fiscal shenanigans at the Fiesta Bowl, the question immediately became: Well, what about the Cotton Bowl taking its place in the BCS rotation? But Dennis Dodd at CBS Sports explained, initially, Not so fast:If there ... More >>
News
December 9, 2010
Undefeated TCU, with the best college football program in Texas, doesn't get a chance to win a national championship. Now why is that again?
Blogs
May 17, 2010
Carlos Quintanilla's Found a New Delicious Target For Protest: Plano-Based Frito-Lay
Now might be a good time to go back and read Megan Feldman's '06 profile of Carlos QuintanillaOooh, just got a press release about an "informational protest" scheduled from 4-6 afternoon at a 7-Eleven close to my house -- the one at Marsh and Forest Lanes, to be precise, as it's apparently "the l ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2010
BCS Playoffs: Quarterfinals/Semifinals
See, that's the problem with the current bowl system. Even though they're 12-0 and good enough to beat any team in the nation, a TCU team playing for nothing but a bag of Tostitos shows up unmotivated and loses, 17-10, in the Fiesta Bowl. If last night's game was a BCS quarterfinal, mind you ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2010
I Rang in 2010 Positively Positive. You?
Ready for a happy weird year? Well, c'mon!My New Year's resolution? To be more positive. More optimistic. More don't-look-now-but-holy-hell-my-glass-is-half-full. Bear with me, this is gonna be tougher than going without a crumb of food for 10 days. Ready? Here goes. I'm open to the idea o ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2010
Great Sergios Throughout History: Mendes, Leone and, Now, UT's Kindle
Sergio KindleTCU-Boise State -- so far, quite the sloppy, defensive time-kill till Thursday night's Big Game. Speaking of which, here's a warm-up from tomorrow's New York Times: a profile of University of Texas linebacker Sergio Kindle, who grew up in South Oak Cliff and shoulda gone to SOC but i ... More >>
News
November 19, 2009
TCU's Football Team Demands National Recognition While SMU Takes Relatively Quiet Steps