NFL owners have awarded the 2015 Super Bowl to the Phoenix area.
With whoops and hollers from players, the Arizona Cardinals have wrapped up their final training camp workout and headed south to the desert.
At the cost of a $1 million fine, the Fiesta Bowl will keep its place in the Bowl Championship Series.
These aren't your parents' colleges. There are typically no sprawling campuses, no fraternities or sororities, no students reading books under trees and no sports teams.
Nine of the 11 members of an NCAA panel that will help decide the Fiesta Bowl's fate attended a bowl-sponsored retreat that included free meals, resort rooms and golf outings.
The head of the BCS put the Fiesta Bowl on notice Wednesday: "Follow the letter of the law" or lose its place in college football's lucrative championship system.
Keeping Cam Newton contained, keeping pace with the hurry-up Ducks and keeping the scoreboard from blowing a fuse.
The Bowl Championship Series is facing a threat that's greater than any lawmaker or political action committee pushing for a playoff.
The television cameras were out to shoot the early part of an Oregon practice as the second-ranked Ducks prepared for the BCS championship game against No. 1 Auburn.
