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• Air attack the wild card for Tide, Irish

  January 7, 2013 in Sports on Page B1 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Enough of the talk. Sometime around 9 tonight, a champion will be crowned at Sun Life Stadium. It’ll end the weeks of hype, debate and discussion …

• N.D. has its charms

  January 7, 2013 in Sports on Page B4 MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – The images will be vivid, history will be haunting, ghosts will be everywhere. This is Knute Rockne versus Bear Bryant, Touchdown Jesus versus Dreamland Bar-B-Que, Four … 1

• BCS Championship: Alabama vs. Notre Dame

  January 7, 2013 in Sports on Page B4 WHAT’S AT STAKE Alabama is going for its third national championship in four years and trying to become the first school to win back-to-back BCS titles. Notre Dame is seeking …

• Notre Dame players say Irish, Tide defenses are alike

  January 5, 2013 in Sports on Page C8 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – When No. 1 Notre Dame lines up on offense Monday night in the BCS championship, the team on the other side of the ball will look …

• Alabama crushes LSU for BCS title

  January 10, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 NEW ORLEANS – The Rematch of the Century, it wasn’t. For Alabama, it was good enough for No. 1, if not a lot of style points. The Crimson Tide romped …

• Blanchette: Two games isn’t enough to decide title

  January 9, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 Someone out there in the mediaverse had a great analogy the other day as to why anybody humbugging the rematch of LSU and Alabama tonight has it all wrong, and …

• BCS might as well play best-of-seven

  January 8, 2012 in Sports In trying to determine a national football champion we’ve gone from the Stone Age of arguing over the legitimacy of polling writers and coaches to The Now of arguing over …

• Nation’s top two offenses square off in BCS championship game

    January 10, 2011 in Sports on Page B1 GLENDALE, Ariz. – Oregon has the fastest car. Auburn has the best driver. The college football season is a race to the finish. Don’t blink Monday night during the BCS …

• Gators, Sooners eye prize

  January 8, 2009 in Sports on Page C1 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Bob Stoops posed next to the crystal football and played along with a wave of photographers. They asked him to look to the left, he did. …

• Pity the loser who will have no valid case

  January 8, 2009 in Sports on Page C2 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The winners will not need our compassion tonight at the BCS Championship game. The winners will be fine, once they shake the confetti out of their …