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Fans Get Ugly, Irrational Over Missed Kicks

PHOENIX – As of Friday afternoon, there were seven new Facebook pages devoted to Alex Zendejas, and depending on which side of the divide you straddle, the University of Arizona kicker is either the latest sympathetic figure to be caught in a frightening cultural undertow, or Lucifer incarnate. Death threats,...

When Nevada Beat Boise St., the WAC Lost Money ... a Lot of It

When Kyle Brotzman honked a 26-yard field goal last Friday it set off a chain of events that would lead to Nevada defeating Boise State. The implications were enormous, not only for the BCS race, but also for financial reasons. With a win, Boise State could have looked forward to a $17 million payout from the Rose...

Best of BCS Busters Will Get Tested Early

It remains the final grass ceiling, if you will, in college football: the prospect of a non-BCS conference school playing in the BCS Championship Game. Of Boise State becoming Butler. Six times in the past six seasons, a non-BCS school, a.k.a. "BCS Buster," has qualified to participate in a BCS bowl. Utah and the Broncos...

Fiesta Bowl Live Blog: Real Question is Can Boise Hold TCU's Offense?

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- So much of the focus during tonight's Tostitos Fiesta Bowl will be on the No.1-ranked TCU defense against Boise State's No.1 scoring offense: The classic strength-on-strength matchup. But what about the matchup of the third-ranked Horned Frogs' offense against the sixth-ranked Boise State defense? That...

TCU, Boise Make History, but Progress?

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- As far TCU coach Gary Patterson is concerned, the landscape of college football was changed forever the day the TCU-Boise State Tostitos Fiesta Bowl was announced last month. Not one, but two programs from non-automatic BCS qualifying conferences meeting on the grand stage of the BCS on Monday night...