You don't often put those words with Northwestern - Rose Bowl team.
Or have an 8-team playoff where the Rose, Sugar, Orange, and Fiesta Bowls are annual quarterfinal sites, and then use Qualcomm, Cowboy Stadium, and the Cotton Bowl as warm weather venues to contest the semis and finals.
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"They're a different team without Derrick Rose obviously, but this is a blue collar team, a hard-working team and they rely really on their defense, " Johnson said.
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.
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.
Ill-feeling between Egypt and Algeria rose in the aftermath of the Algerian football team's victory in a qualification match for next year's World Cup.
During his tenure with the Devils, Parise rose to become the team's captain and one of the NHL's best all-around forwards, collecting eight goals and 15 points during this year's postseason as New Jersey won its first Eastern Conference championship since 2003.
As the balloon rose, the team was able to map its progress using Google Earth via the craft's on-board radio receiver.
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But first, the fourth-seeded Nets will have to go through a tough Chicago team that has been without star Derrick Rose, who tore his ACL in Game 1 of their first round series against Philadelphia last April.
That proved costly as in the dying moments of the first-half Forssell poached his team's second goal, prodding in from two yards out after Jerome rose clear at the near post to flick on Larsson's left-wing corner.
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