As if by design, the rain started swirling through Candlestick Park as it became clear that more than 60 minutes would be needed to find a proper opponent for the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl.
Football
This time around, the New England Patriots are not perfect, and their opponent is far from it. But quarterback Tom Brady’s return to the Super Bowl, in a rematch against the New York Giants, sets up an ideal matchup for Las Vegas sports books.
Let’s see, there are those crop circles, Stonehenge, the Mayan Prophecy, Bigfoot, the Bermuda Triangle, Julia Roberts’ marriage to Lyle Lovett and Arizona State never seeming to win in the sports that count.
You can imagine Kellen Moore’s delight if his NFL career leads to a Super Bowl, where his team will have earned the right through a tournament format to play for a championship.
HOW THEY SCORED
No. 8 Boise State (12-1) beat Arizona State (6-7) in front of about 35,000 tonight at the MAACO Bowl Las Vegas at Sam Boyd Stadium.
Bowl results often come down to which is the more motivated team: the side that sees the game as a reward, compared with the one that wishes it was playing somewhere and someone else
It was a few seconds past 5 p.m. Monday in the Rush Tower lobby of the Golden Nugget downtown. Boise State football coach Chris Petersen and his Arizona State counterpart, the soon-to-be-unemployed Dennis Erickson, were smiling for the traditional photo one always sees before bowl games, the one with the team helmets and the trophy in the foreground. At least this time, the showgirls stayed home.
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