Bowls: The good From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: December 28, 2000| Author: DALE HOFMANN | Copyright 2000 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Dale Hofmann

Bowls: The good, the bad, the ugly

By DALE HOFMANN

of the Journal Sentinel staff

Thursday, December 28, 2000

Further proof that you can fool some of the people all of the time comes to us from Las Vegas, where the Big Ten Conference has had its face lifted like a 50-something starlet.

The nation's most overrated conference in September becomes its most oversubscribed in December, putting six teams in bowl games and having five of them favo...

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