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  • Auburn wins Sugar Bowl, joins Utah as co-faux-national champs

    01/03/2005 8:44:12 PM PST · by Diddle E. Squat · 198 replies · 2,124+ views
    ABC TV and the Bogus Championship System | 1/3/05 | French figure skating judge
    Auburn beats VA Tech in the Sugar Bowl, 16-13, to finish the season undefeated. 2 days ago Utah whipped Pitt in the Fiesta Bowl to also complete an undefeated season. USC and Oklahoma play tomorrow night in the bogus national championship game, but in truth, once again no one will know who was the best team this season.
  • NYT: The Heisman Trophy -- An Award That Still Fuels a National Debate

    12/11/2004 7:11:49 AM PST · by OESY · 11 replies · 1,247+ views
    New York Times ^ | December 11, 2004 | BILL PENNINGTON
    John W. Heisman, for whom the most famous trophy in American sports is named, never wanted his name associated with the award. Heisman was one of the most accomplished college football coaches of the early 20th century and he abhorred the notion of an individual award in what he considered the ultimate team game. "Is it not meant to exemplify the grandeur of a thousand men?" Heisman told members of the Downtown Athletic Club when they approached him about the award in early 1935. It was a rhetorical question, but Heisman, who spent summers as a Shakespearean actor, knew how...
  • USC sheds conservative image (CNN biased barf piece)

    12/26/2003 1:37:10 PM PST · by Moose4 · 20 replies · 144+ views
    CNN.com ^ | 26 December 2003 | Gina Goodhill
    <p>Editor's note: Campus Vibe is a feature that provides student perspectives on the 2004 election from selected colleges across the United States. This week's contributor is Gina Goodhill, student reporter at the Daily Trojan, the University of Southern California student newspaper. The views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of CNN, its affiliates or the University of Southern California.</p>