Fiesta foes miss the biggest party
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Welcome to the BCS consolation bracket, otherwise known as the Fiesta Bowl. Third-ranked Oklahoma thought it deserved a shot at the Bowl Championship Series title after a series of late-season upsets shook up the BCS standings. But the Sooners finished behind another twice-beaten team, LSU.
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SOMETIMES home-team fans become so caught up in the crisis of the week that they lose track of the big picture of a game or season.
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BUNOL, Spain  - Tons of flying tomatoes streaked  the streets of Bunol red and left 20,000 visitors wallowing in  a pond of pulped fruit as the tiny Spanish town celebrated the  world's largest food fight Wednesday.
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Poor San Antonio. While the New Orleans Saints and NFL get ready for the biggest welcome-home bash ever, San Antonio is on the sidelines again, the gawky one left behind after the cool kids pick their teams.
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A small but potent group of voters is feeling slighted after getting no-shows from the top candidates at a major conference
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MADRID, Feb 8 (Reuters Life!) - A Spanish court on Thursday canceled Carnival celebrations in the Canary Islands city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife -- one of the biggest in the world -- because they are too noisy.
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With the nationâs media raining heavy criticism down upon him, Spain coach Luis Aragones chose to pin a galling nil-nil UEFA World Cup qualifying result with Lithuania on the large playing surface.
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A celebration to honor the new words, considered too mild by many, was canceled.
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A small but potent group of voters is feeling slighted after no-shows from the top candidates at a major conference
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CROMWELL, Conn. -- They couldn't get the big names to play in this year's Buick Championship and for the better part of yesterday's final round at TPC River Highlands, they couldn't get any of the lesser ones to win the darn thing, either.
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Not with players dragging off the field, their bodies drained by yet another anticlimactic loss. Not with their fired leader standing before reporters, struggling to hold back the tears once more.
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One day after several tournament favorites fell nationwide, top teams returned to form with a few notable exceptions.
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As expected, Auburn is the odd team out of the BCS national championship game, and Texas has bumped Cal out of the Rose Bowl. In addition to the Longhorns&#39; last-minute jump, there was another shocker: Texas
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The Fiesta Bowl gladly invited BCS-buster Utah on Sunday and had no choice but to accept Big East champion Pittsburgh as the unbeaten Utes' opponent.
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Sometimes games are too big to just be games. Welcome to Southern Cal against Notre Dame, which will be the post-Thanksgiving treat served up at the Coliseum tonight.
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But instead of climactic celebration of what was a wonderful event, the party and fireworks were cancelled out of respect for the seven children killed when their bus crashed on the way to the Games on Monday.
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Late-inning longballs had fans in San Diego and Colorado celebrating Wednesday night, while the Brewers and Phillies saw their hopes dashed in extra frames.