Orange Bowl

PASSINGS: Greg Willard, Ronnie Ray Smith, Chuck Fairbanks

2013-04-03 00:00:00

Greg Willard Longtime NBA referee worked more than 1,600 games Greg Willard, 54, a longtime NBA referee who worked more than 1,600 games before he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, died Monday at his home in Huntington Beach, according to NBA...

Memories of 1973 Sugar Bowl remain sweet and sour

2013-01-05 19:30:00

People to this day buy Robin Weber bar drinks. "It's been good for beer," he joked in a recent phone interview. On New Year's Eve, 1973, a year after the scoop-for-score that made Franco Harris famous, Notre Dame executed its own "Immaculate...

Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'My Week With Marilyn' on TMC

2012-12-31 20:05:00

Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 30, 2012 - Jan. 5, 2012 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � -------------------- SERIES Great Performances: The arts series presents the back-to-back new offerings "From Vienna: The New Year's...

Is Northern Illinois' bowl bid a strength or weakness of the BCS?

2012-12-03 13:32:00

Northern Illinois will become the first team from the Mid-American Conference to play in a BCS bowl when it faces Florida State in the Orange Bowl next month. Writers from around the Tribune Co. discuss whether the Huskies getting a BCS bowl berth is a...

Northern Illinois in Orange Bowl? Eat Huskies' dust, Herbstreit!

2012-12-03 17:44:00

WE RULE! All together now: Come on you Huskies, Fight you Huskies And win for NIU Or, as fellow Northern Illinois University alumnus Ned Colletti put it Monday morning, "Long overdue." The Huskies didn't need to change uniform numbers to...

Only major bowl question: Can Northern Illinois steal a BCS bid?

2012-12-02 11:00:00

Aren't you going to miss the Bowl Championship Series? (Don't email answer that). The college football selection system for bowl games that has been ordered to the junk heap after next season might have a couple of surprises left in it. Nebraska's...

No surprise: Notre Dame vs. Alabama in BCS title game

2012-12-02 18:50:00

The final Bowl Championship Series standings on Sunday produced a lot of expected news and one big surprise. Notre Dame and Alabama, in what everyone knew was just a formality, finished first and second in the final standings and will meet Jan. 7 in...

As usual, SEC claims ownership of BCS

2012-12-02 20:50:00

ATLANTA -- No one down here in Southeastern Conference country was surprised Sunday when the final Bowl Championship Series standings confirmed Alabama would be playing Jan. 7 for the national title. The surprise is why the SEC isn't playing the SEC...

Reports: Northern Illinois earns BCS berth to Orange Bowl

2012-12-02 15:52:00

Well, sometimes the little guys do win. Northern Illinois has earned a Bowl Championship Series bowl bid, according to several media reports. The champions of the Mid-American Conference will play Florida State in the Orange Bowl. It will be the MAC's...

It's a title wave as Alabama pummels Notre Dame in BCS rout

2013-01-07 23:17:00

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The only quarterback in the stadium Monday night who knew how to defeat Alabama wasn't allowed to take a snap. Johnny Manziel, the Heisman Trophy winner, watched from the stands, perhaps reminiscing about his team's upset win...

Chris Dufresne's top 10 college football moments for 2012 season

2013-01-08 18:45:00

The end of this season means there's only a year left of the snaggle-toothed Bowl Championship Series, a cartel dreamed up by Satan that has been infuriating college football fans since 1998. We can't wait for the new four-team playoff starting in 2014...

Alabama-Georgia game looks like BCS title-game tuneup

2012-12-01 00:00:00

ATLANTA --�Alabama and Georgia haven't played in football since 2008 but won't be completely startled when they bump into each other at the Georgia Dome on Saturday. At stake is the Southeastern Conference championship — otherwise known as the...

Cypress Bay football coach Marc Guandolo recieves the Orange Bowl Amateur Sports Leadership Award from Judge Michael Chaview, the second Vice Chair of the Orange Bowl Committee, during the annual Orange Bowl Impact and Excellence (O.B.I.E.

2013-05-17 00:00:00

A mascot for the Northern Illinois Huskies is seen on the field against the Florida State Seminoles during the Discover Orange Bowl at Sun Life Stadium on January 1, 2013 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Photo by Chris Trotman/Getty Images)

2013-03-10 12:04:00

Florida State quarterback EJ Manuel celebrates his touchdown against Northern Illinois during the second half of the Discover Orange Bowl. Manuel was one of 333 players invited to the NFL Comine in Indianapolis. (Jim Rassol/Sun Sentinel/MCT)

2013-02-07 08:16:00