But still: Entering Monday night's Wisconsin-Oregon Rose Bowl, the Big Ten stood 33-51 in bowl games since 2000, 3-5 this season, 1-3 on the sport's showcase bowl day.
Set in a creaking old town house, the 15 rooms possess the original 19th-Century bones to offset their Rose Bowl-sourced and individually furnished interiors, a cosy of velvet settees, fringed lamps and sepia-toned writing paper.
Tahir, who is also now qualified by marriage to play for South Africa, claimed 96 first-class wickets for Hampshire during two seasons at the Rose Bowl - 44 of those coming in just seven matches in 2008 as he helped them avoid relegation.
You don't often put those words with Northwestern - Rose Bowl team.
Native Californians cling to the pageantry of the Rose Bowl--the parade, the silliness, the old stadium (still awaiting a big "pro" renovation if only the taxpayers will lay themselves down before the NFL god) and the often-unpredictable contest itself.
Oregon beat Wisconsin 45-38 in the highest-scoring Rose Bowl ever.
Some believed commentators might even be playing favorites on-air: this January, ESPN reporter Erin Andrews told viewers of the TCU-Wisconsin Rose Bowl game that the TCU players were slipping in their brand new Nike cleats.
The Big Ten also lost the first bowl game of 2011, when Texas Tech beat Northwestern 45-38 in the TicketCity Bowl, and dropped its most meaningful when TCU beat Wisconsin 21-19 in the Rose Bowl.
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The Pac-12 will also get the maximum BCS payout thanks to sending either Stanford or UCLA to the Rose Bowl and having 11-1 Oregon all but guaranteed an at-large berth.
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New South Wales bowler Hazlewood, 19, played for Australia in June's first one-day international against England at the Rose Bowl, taking the wicket of Craig Kieswetter to finish with 1-41 from seven overs.
Strauss played a lone hand with 63 as England's 228-9 at the Rose Bowl was easily overhauled by the tourists.
The Crimson football team won the Rose Bowl in the leather-helmet days and famously tied Yale in 1968, and the Harvard rowers can hold their own against Oxford and Cambridge in the Henley Regatta.
Oregon locked up its spot in the Rose Bowl by winning the Pac-12 title game Friday night.
"I'm delighted the series is over and that it's been success, " said Strauss following England's 121-run victory at the Rose Bowl in the final ODI.
However, Kent's loss was Middlesex's gain as the county with no previous aptitude for Twenty20 stunned the defending champions with a nerve-wracking last-ball victory at the Rose Bowl in July, with Henderson bowling the decisive last over as well as smashing 43 from 33 balls.
The national quarter-finals would occur at the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, and Orange Bowl.
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As every college football fan knows, the Big Ten Conference traditionally sends a representative to play a Pac-12 Conference team in the Rose Bowl.
Last year, the county played their first match on an out-ground since moving to the Rose Bowl in 2001, when they beat Durham at Basingstoke in the County Championship in August.
Klinsmann debuts in a game that is also a rematch of the Gold Cup final in June, when Mexico came back to win a thrilling 4-2 game in front of 90, 000 thousand (mostly pro-Mexican) fans in the Rose Bowl.
Or let the BCS collage of human and computer rankings identify the top 4 teams each year, and then use the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, and Fiesta Bowl on a rotational basis to host the semi-finals and finals.
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Australia begin the five-match one-day series against England at the Rose Bowl on Tuesday.
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It was another polished display, similar to the opening win at the Rose Bowl, and came after talismanic all-rounder Andrew Flintoff (sore knee) and Dimitri Mascarenhas (hand injury) were ruled out.
It thus drove Woody crazy when the 12th-ranked Stanford Indians, consisting of one rifle-armed Jim Plunkett and a supporting cast of California lulus, beat top-ranked Ohio State in the 1971 Rose Bowl.
While the Rose Bowl Game has become one of the most-recognized athletic events, its start was met without much fanfare.
Essex now travel to the Rose Bowl to take on Kent in the first semi-final of Saturday's Twenty20 Cup finals day.
Note: ESPN had previously secured the rights to the Rose, Sugar and Orange Bowl games for the same 12-year period (through January 2026).
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England face Ireland on Tuesday, Sri Lanka in a Twenty20 game on Thursday at the Rose Bowl, before next Saturday's first one-dayer at Lord's.
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The White Ferns have a busy schedule ahead with four matches to go in the Rose Bowl, then three Twenty20 internationals and six 50-over games in England in the space of 18 days.
This uncomplicated philosophy saw Henderson smashing sixes into row Z as well as bowling unplayable yorkers and slower balls disguised better than Carlos the Jackal in Middlesex's four-wicket win over 2007 champions Kent at the Rose Bowl in July.
College football is a historically parochial sport, with the Big Ten and Pac-12 Conferences clinging to the lucrative and beloved Rose Bowl on New Year's Day and the recently dominant SEC pushing for a playoff to showcase more of its powerful teams.
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