Bowls score big [Derived headline]

From: The Intelligencer | Date: January 8, 2008 | Copyright information

Bowls score big

Here's to the bowls!

Here's to three weeks of non-stop college football, three weeks of Ray Rice, Pat White, John David Booty, Chad Henne, Matt Ryan, Chris Long, Pete Carroll, Dan Connor, Les Miles, Darren McFadden, Todd Reesing, Matthew Stafford, and Joe Paterno, three weeks of fun and festivity from Tucson to Toronto, three weeks of a couch potato's delight.

It all ended Monday night in New Orleans with the BCS championship game, which determined that LS...

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