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Ron Franklin, ESPN Announcer, Yanked From Broadcast for Sexist Remarks

Ron Franklin, one of ESPN's best known college sports announcers, reportedly was taken off the company's radio broadcast of the Fiesta Bowl after he allegedly referred to a female colleague as "sweetcakes," and then with a vulgarity during a production meeting. Sports by Brooks reported Sunday that Franklin, who does...

Oklahoma Wins Fiesta Bowl With an Offensive Performance

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The Tostitos Fiesta Bowl turned out to be a tale of two offenses: one team's was overpowering and unstoppable; the other's, virtually nonexistent. The Oklahoma Sooners moved the ball at will, and piled up 524 yards of offense on the way to a 48-20 victory over the Connecticut Huskies. While Sooners...

Landry Jones Passes Oklahoma Past Connecticut in Fiesta Bowl

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The Oklahoma Sooners capped their Big 12 championship season with their first BCS bowl game victory in eight years, beating the Connecticut Huskies 48-20 in the 40th annual Tostitos Fiesta Bowl on Saturday. Sooners quarterback Landry Jones finished with a school bowl-record 426 yards passing, going 33...

Oklahoma vs. Connecticut: Fiesta Bowl

The 2011 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl features the No. 9 Oklahoma Sooners (11-2) against the No. 25 Connecticut Huskies (8-4) at 8:30 p.m. ET on Jan. 1, 2011. It couldn't pit more polar opposite programs. UConn wasn't even in Division I (now FBS) until 1997 and just joined the Big East in 2004. This is the Huskies' first...

Connecticut's Jordan Todman Ready for Big Stage of Fiesta Bowl

One of the first things a recruit would likely notice on a visit to the Connecticut football facility is a trophy case dedicated to running back Donald Brown's career. Despite a short history in the FBS, UConn is developing an impressive reputation for producing talented running backs. Jordan Todman is the latest in that...

Fiesta Bowl News From the Web

05/23/12 Fiesta's role a question mark Source: The Arizona Republic - Phoenix AZ One of the nation's most prestigious college athletic conferences, the Big 12, just ended its contract with you.
04/29/12 New Fiesta Bowl chief wows BCS executives Source: The Arizona Republic - Phoenix AZ All it took was an address by Robert Shelton to convince college football's decision-makers at their annual meetings here that the once scandal-wracked Fiesta Bowl was charting a different course under new leadership.
04/27/12 BCS Meetings: Removal of Automatic Qualifications... Source: Bleacher Report While everyone is stuck in the discussion about the four-team playoff, and how teams get in or where the games are played, another major decision has been made on the college football front.
04/26/12 Fiesta bowl should matter in 'playoffs' Source: The Arizona Republic - Phoenix AZ The die is cast for big changes in the Bowl Championship Series, the long-reviled system for finding a college-football champion.
04/26/12 Fiesta Bowl wants to stay in championship mix Source: USA Today College football's power brokers spent much of Wednesday dissecting the idea of a four-team playoff to determine a national champion, offering the clearest signal yet that the current Bowl Championship Series is about end.

Background on Fiesta Bowl

The Fiesta Bowl, now sponsored by Frito-Lay and named with their Tostitos brand, is a United States college football bowl game played annually at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

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