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Help the Boy Scouts WIN!!! Scroll to the bottom of the page and vote for the Boy Scout Rose Parade Float. http://www.tournamentofroses.com/roseparade/viewers-choice-award.asp

NOTE: I post this because my nephew and Godson is thinking he might like to attend Cal Tech and will paying it a visit soon. ================================================= THE GREAT ROSE BOWL HOAX THE LONGEST LIST OF THE LONGEST STUFF AT THE LONGEST DOMAIN NAME AT LONG LAST The Great Rose Bowl Hoax The College Prank that Set the Standard Picture it: The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, January 2, 1961. The game is being played on the 2nd day of the New Year due to the 1st falling on a Sunday. The stadium is at capacity for the college championship battle...

Take one part Norman Rockwell, add a dash of glitz and presto ... It's the perfect Beef Bowl recipe. A tradition for 53 years (older than 30 of the 34 actual bowl games), Lawry's hosts each of the Rose Bowl teams on consecutive nights for a pregame feast of prime rib, salad, mashed potatoes, creamed corn and apple pie. Cameras flash and video crews pass around mikes. The last two years, Illinois and Penn State players have come into the legendary Beverly Hills restaurant with their eyes as wide as the giant slabs of meat.

Cindy Sheehan Booed At The Rose Bowl Parade Now that Cindy has turned on the Democrats, she’s not exactly a favorite of the liberals. And the liberals in Pasadena certainly made that much evident with the reception they gave Cindy’s entry in the Rose Bowl Parade Twenty-three people were arrested by Tuesday afternoon, including one protester, Pasadena Police Department Lt. Keith Jones said. Jones said the protester was “arrested for holding up a sign that blocked other patrons view of the parade.” Dozens of anti-war protesters led by “Peace Mom” Cindy Sheehan staked out spots across from television cameras, hoisting...

Cindy Sheehan: Down with BushCo–and screw the evil corporate Rose Bowl parade, too! By Michelle Malkin  •  January 1, 2008 01:44 PM   As promised, St. Cindy stinks up the Rose Bowl parade and delivers an unhinged salvo posted at After Downing Street–complete with BushCo/Hitler epithets, anti-American insults, and Absolute Moral Authority sanctimony: Since the conquest of Poland three hundred thousand Jews have been murdered in this country in the most bestial way … The German people slumber on in their dull, stupid sleep and encourage these fascist criminals … Each man wants to be exonerated of a guilt of this kind,...

Help Us Keep the Trojans in the Coliseum An Open Letter from Mike Garrett to the Trojan Family November 28, 2007 Dear Fellow Trojan: It gives me no pleasure to write a letter of this kind, but there are issues facing our university that you need to understand. The University of Southern California has been negotiating diligently for months, trying to renew USC’s lease with the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and trying to get guarantees that USC’s football team and fans can enjoy home games in a completely renovated and improved stadium. Unfortunately, talks are at an impasse, and right...

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...

USC freshman Stephanie Graves plays in a sea of mellophones during a rehearsal. Band director Arthur C. Bartner says he learned from the late assistant football coach Marv Goux how to run the marching band: “like a football team.” Evan Kuite, second chair of the horn section of the University of Michigan Marching Band, leads his group in an indoor rehearsal in chilly Ann Arbor. Out stepped the USC Trojan Marching Band onto Cromwell Field, a flood of musicians wearing their trademark sunglasses and short sleeves under the Southern California sun. Standouts in Trojan cardinal and gold, they swung trombones...

The largest outdoor celebration of the Rosary in Southern California in nearly 50 years will take place at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, on May 19, 2007, Holy Cross Family Ministries announced this week. "A World at Prayer Is a World at Peace: A Rosary Celebration, The Rosary Bowl" will take place between 6-9 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Holy Cross Family Ministries, Easton, Mass., and its Hollywood-based member ministry, Family Theater Productions, are presenting the event in collaboration with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Auxiliary Bishop Oscar Solis, archdiocesan Vicar for Ethnic (Multi-Cultural) Ministry, is the...

Some of the "Fighting Tigers" are fighting mad at Governor Blanco. As noted in the press, there are unofficial reports that LSU Tigers are going to the Rose bowl. After this was announced, Governor Blanco began making phone calls that haven't exactly impressed LSU fans. Several fans have approached THE DEAD PELICAN expressing a mixture of outrage and ridicule, claiming that Blanco is trying to take credit for something that isn't her doing. Other LSU fans haven't forgotten about Blanco's tail gate party for ULL, at the same time that university was playing the LSU tigers. According to a statement...

NEW YORK — Replay officials at last season's Rose Bowl were unable to properly review a Texas touchdown that should have been overturned because the wrong television feed was plugged into a monitor. Big Ten and national coordinator of officials David Parry told The Associated Press that he went to the replay booth during January's Rose Bowl between USC and Texas to ask about Selvin Young's 12-yard touchdown run in the second quarter. It appeared on replays that Young received a pitch from Texas' Vince Young after the quarterback's knee touched the ground. Parry said replay officials told him one...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Titans promised they wanted Vince Young, the third pick overall and the first quarterback taken in the draft, under contract before they opened training camp. They avoided any lengthy holdouts Thursday, agreeing to terms with both Young and LenDale White a day before the first practice Friday afternoon. Young, the No. 3 overall pick out of Texas, agreed to a five-year deal, with an option for a sixth, with $25.7 million guaranteed and an overall value that could reach $58 million with option and roster bonuses and salary. The contract includes a $12.3 million option...

"The blacker you are, the worse it is for you. If you're mixed, you've got a shot. If you cater to what white America wants you to do and how they want you to look, you can survive. But if you want to be yourself, and try to do things that fit you, and your skin, nobody cares about that. At the end of the day, white America dominates and rules. And it's racist." Thus said successful (and dark-skinned) victicrat/singer Mary J. Blige. Guess Ms. Blige didn't catch the Rose Bowl. The thrilling game, won by Texas, 41-38, says a...

Last week, on the eve of Penn State's Orange Bowl game against Florida State, Paterno said something really dumb. He was asked about Seminoles linebacker A.J. Nicholson, who had been accused of sexual assault, and he said this: "There are so many people gravitating to these kids. Maybe he didn't know what he was getting into, Nicholson. Somebody will knock on the door. A cute girl knocks on the door. What do you do? "Thank God, they don't knock on my door. I'd refer them to a couple of other rooms. "But that's too bad. You hate to see that,...

A down-to-the-wire finish in the most-anticipated college football championship games in years produced huge ratings for ABC on Wednesday night, expected to rank as the sports highest-rated game in 19 years. The University of Texas' 41-38 victory over USC in the Rose Bowl Game averaged a 12.0 rating/29 share in adults 18-49 and 34 million viewers overall on ABC affiliates from 8 to 11, but the nationals ratings for the game will come in higher. This is expected to be the highest-rated championship game since the Penn State-Miami contest in 1987, and it is easily the top primetime draw of...

1/5/2006 - LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFPN) -- A B-1B Lancer kicked off the national college football title game Jan. 4 with a flyover of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. Gen. Ronald Keys, commander of Air Combat Command and Lt. Gen. Michael Hamel, commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center here, represented the Air Force at several Tournament of Roses week events leading up to the game between the University of Texas and the University of Southern California. Events included Fan Fest Expo Village, a family festival where the 369th Air Force Recruiting Squadron, Los Angeles,...

It's over. I don't have to watch sports anymore. I've seen the best college football game in the history of the sport and the best performance by an athlete in any sports event -- ever. In the wake of Texas' entertaining win over USC in the Rose Bowl on Wednesday, about 173 analysts, blowhards, pinheads, gasbags and otherwise sane people have lost their minds, and their credibility. Vince Young was very good, even great against the Trojans. Yes, it lived up to the grotesque hype. The best college football game ever? The greatest performance in any sport, ever? People actually...

President Bush, an early-to-bed kind of guy, stayed with the Rose Bowl until halftime Wednesday night before going to sleep. But spokesman Scott McClellan said something stirred the president out of his slumber and back to the TV later in the evening as the Texas Longhorns staged a comeback win over Southern California to win the national collegiate football title. He watched till halftime and then he actually woke up late and managed to see the end of the game," McClellan said. "It was an amazing game and he caught the end of it." Bush this morning publicly acknowledged the...

LOS ANGELES — Knock off Texas tonight in one of college football's most anticipated games, and top-ranked Southern Cal can lay claim to something even more elusive than three consecutive national titles. Immortality."If USC wins this game, I think you have to put them up there with the greatest teams of all time," longtime ABC broadcaster Keith Jackson said. "I always thought the 1972 USC team was the best I ever saw. Then came Nebraska in 1995. If the Trojans win, they are right there."Others will go a step further. A win over Texas (12-0) in the Rose Bowl would...

Here we go! This should be a great game. I don't know and kinda doubt it will top last night's game or even the games from 2 nights ago, but this will be a much better game than last year's BCS title game.