College bowl schedule

Congratulations to all the teams in teh bowl games. Below is the schedule and who is playing.

2008-09 College Football Bowl Schedule
BOWL LOCATION DATE/TIME NETWORK

EagleBank Bowl
Wake Forest vs. Navy Washington, D.C.
RFK Stadium Dec. 20, 11 a.m. ESPN

New Mexico
Colorado State vs. Fresno State Albuquerque
University Stadium Dec. 20, 2:30 p.m. ESPN

magicJack St. Petersburg
Memphis vs. South Florida St. Petersburg. Fla.
Tropicana Field Dec. 20, 4:30 p.m. ESPN2

Pioneer Las Vegas
BYU vs. Arizona Las Vegas
Sam Boyd Stadium Dec. 20, 8 p.m. ESPN

R+L Carriers New Orleans
Southern Miss vs. Troy New Orleans
Superdome Dec. 21, 8:15 p.m. ESPN

San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia
Boise State vs. TCU San Diego
Qualcomm Stadium Dec. 23, 8 p.m. ESPN

Sheraton Hawaii
Hawaii vs. Notre Dame Honolulu
Aloha Stadium Dec. 24, 8 p.m. ESPN

Motor City
Florida Atlantic vs. Central Michigan Detroit
Ford Field Dec. 26, 8 p.m. ESPN

Meineke Car Care
West Virginia vs. North Carolina Charlotte, N.C.
Bank of America Stadium Dec. 27, 1 p.m. ESPN

Champs Sports
Wisconsin vs. Florida State Orlando, Fla.
Florida Citrus Bowl Dec. 27, 4:30 p.m. ESPN

Emerald
Miami (Fla.) vs. California San Francisco
AT&T Park Dec. 27, 8 p.m. ESPN

Independence
Northern Illinois vs. Louisiana Tech Shreveport, La.
Independence Stadium Dec. 28, 8:15 p.m. ESPN

Papajohns.com
NC State vs. Rutgers Birmingham, Ala.
Legion Field Dec. 29, 3 p.m. ESPN

Valero Alamo
Missouri vs. Northwestern San Antonio
Alamodome Dec. 29, 8 p.m. ESPN

Roady's Humanitarian
Maryland vs. Nevada Boise, Idaho
Bronco Stadium Dec. 30, 4:30 p.m. ESPN

Texas
Rice vs. Western Michigan Houston
Reliant Stadium Dec. 30, 8 p.m. NFL Network

Pacific Life Holiday
Oklahoma State vs. Oregon San Diego
Qualcomm Stadium Dec. 30, 8 p.m. ESPN

Bell Helicopter Armed Forces
Houston vs. Air Force Fort Worth, Texas
Amon G. Carter Stadium Dec. 31, Noon ESPN

Brut Sun
Oregon State vs. Pittsburgh El Paso, Texas
Sun Bowl Dec. 31, 2 p.m. CBS

Gaylord Hotels Music City
Boston College vs. Vanderbilt Nashville, Tenn.
LP Field Dec. 31, 3:30 p.m. ESPN

Insight
Kansas vs. Minnesota Tempe, Ariz.
Sun Devil Stadium Dec. 31, 5:30 p.m. NFL Network

Chick-fil-A
LSU vs. Georgia Tech Atlanta
Georgia Dome Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m. ESPN

Outback
South Carolina vs. Iowa Tampa, Fla.
Raymond James Stadium Jan. 1, 2009, 11 a.m. ESPN

Capital One
Georgia vs. Michigan State Orlando, Fla.
Florida Citrus Bowl Jan. 1, 2009, 1 p.m. ABC

Konica Minolta Gator
Clemson vs. Nebraska Jacksonville, Fla.
Jacksonville Municipal Stadium Jan. 1, 2009, 1 p.m. CBS

Rose Bowl Game Presented by Citi
Penn State vs. USC Pasadena, Calif.
Rose Bowl Jan. 1, 2009, 4:30 p.m. ABC

FedEx Orange
Cincinnati vs. Virginia Tech Miami
Dolphin Stadium Jan. 1, 2009, 8:30 p.m. FOX

AT&T Cotton
Ole Miss vs. Texas Tech Dallas
Cotton Bowl Jan. 2, 2009, 2 p.m. FOX

AutoZone Liberty
Kentucky vs. East Carolina Memphis, Tenn.
Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium Jan. 2, 2009, 5 p.m. ESPN

Allstate Sugar
Utah vs. Alabama New Orleans
Superdome Jan. 2, 2009, 8 p.m. FOX

International
Buffalo vs. Connecticut Toronto
Rogers Centre Jan. 3, 2009, Noon ESPN2

Tostitos Fiesta
Ohio State vs. Texas Glendale, Ariz.
University of Phoenix Stadium Jan. 5, 2009, 8 p.m. FOX

GMAC
Tulsa vs. Ball State Mobile, Ala.
Ladd-Peebles Stadium Jan. 6, 2009, 8 p.m. ESPN

FedEx BCS National Championship Game
Florida vs. Oklahoma Miami
Dolphin Stadium Jan. 8, 2009, 8 p.m. FOX

USA Today kind of likes us...

Just thought we would share with our friends, family and fans...Collegiateliving.com recieved a nice mention in USA Today's Blog section under Mary Beth Marklein's page.

A few gift ideas with a collegiate theme
Posted 12/2/2008 5:15 PM EST

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Mary Beth has been covering higher education for USA TODAY since 1997. She also covers college admissions, college graduation and pretty much everything in between. Here is a link that you can find her articles and blogs. I highly recommend checking out.

Happy Holiday's Everyone,

--C.K.
Owner CollegiateLiving.com

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Happy Holidays to our family and friends. We are entering another holiday season with collegiate Living and wanted to pass along the good news to everyone!

With another successful month of November under our belts, we have been able to expand our products to now include diploma frames, inflatable field goals, BBQ gear; and tailgating supplies that include chairs and back pack coolers!

As always, we strive to bring you the products you are looking for. We are going to be attending the Atlanta Gift Show in January 2009 in search of more cool, fun items that you are looking for. As always, please let us know if you are seeking certain products that you can not find anywhere! We will find them for you. Shoot us an email or drop us a VM and let us know what that special item is that you are seeking.

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1 Year Anniversary

To all of my friends, family and co-workers who have supported Collegiate Living’s launch almost a year ago, I wanted to thank each and every one of you for your support! It has been an interesting journey thus far as we approach our 1 year anniversary on October 31st!

What started out as a hobby has turned into a thriving business that allows me to take my passion for web marketing to another level. A year ago, we were excited about having 1 category of lamps and maybe sell an item or two. Now, we have over 700 products, and have expanded into not just college licensed merchandise but into the realm of the NFL also.

We have expanded into lamps and lighting, home décor, diploma frames, and fun tailgating gear as well. Also, I have been given the chance to travel around the U.S. to seek out new and exciting products that hopefully I can bring to the customers and give them unique and fun products that they seek.

If you have not had a chance, please check out the new Collegiate Living at www.collegiateliving.com. As always, I’d love to hear from you and let me know what you think about our products, the site, and anything else you would like to share.

From the Dorm Room to the Board Room--you never REALLY graduate!

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Summer Lovin

As the summer heats up, both families and frats pile into their cars, jam the highways, and head off to the solace of summer, the beach.
Ah the beach. Or for those in New Jersey… the shore, but who cares about them?
The days of getting a beach house with your friends for a week or two, filling up the fridge with nothing but beer and hangover cures, and trying to pack in as many wild nights as possible into a couple of hedonistic weeks seemed like the best times of your life. Those are the days to live for.
Or, in many a person’s case, were the days…
For many other tamed and maintained post-collegiates, the days of skinny dipping hot tubs and beer bongs are over. Instead of applying sun tan to a recently acquainted babe, you’re applying SPF 50 to your baby…
But now the beach has become something else entirely. Now it is a place to decompress and really enjoy the things that you work so hard for. Teaching your son how to fish on a pier. Bike rides with the family on the boardwalk. Taking a walk on the beach with that special someone.
Its funny how your perspectives and wants can change and how fast they do change. Once you were carefree and jubilant, and now you are careful, but still jubilant. The times you spent with your college friends were great, but in comparison, how do they stack up to your beach trips now? Would you trade a week of bachelordom at San Padre or Cabo San Lucas for a week with your family at Ocean City or the Outer Banks?
And for those lucky few that live on or near the beach, how has the beach changed for you? Many friends of mine were lucky to live by the sea, and seeing them grow, as have I, it’s interesting to see how the ocean environs have changed in meaning. Once a secluded inlet used to throw summer parties are now prime fishing spots for the family.
So for those of you in the throes of a decadent summer, hats off. These will be the times you won’t forget. Well, some of the moments you remember, but that’s because you downed too many PBRs. Others you’ll want to forget.
And those of you who are taking a week off from work to spend time with family, enjoy. These times are also memory making, but it’s more about the company your with than the company your trying to meet.

-Boomer

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Play Ball

Play Ball…
As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, college baseball, the red-headed stepchild of college sports, is heating up as the College World Series is underway. While the tournament does not receive the same fervor of devotion from most of the country as basketball in March and football in the fall ending in the grand Bowl weeks during the holidays, the College World Series has the fast action of college sports, and the hunger that only a student athlete can posses.

The double elimination tournament started on Saturday, and will continue for the next two weeks, ending with a three game tournament to crown the best team in college baseball.

This year we see the south dominating the tournament much like in years past. Three ACC teams, Florida State
(4) and North Carolina(2) and number one ranked Miami, are both in the competition while the SEC has LSU(7) and Georgia(8) dogging it out for the title. The Rice Owls (6) are the only team from Texas and it is representing Conference USA in the series, something the school is accustom to the series, appearing in the past 7 out of 12 College World Series.

Florida isn’t the only state with two teams competing for the title. California is being represented by two schools, Fresno Stateand Stanford. Fresno Stateis making its first appearance since 1991 in the CWS while Stanfordhas two back-to-back CWS titles (1987 and 1988), and has been in the series six times in the past 10 years.

So far in the Series, Stanfordbeat Florida State16 to 5 with a record breaking 11 runs being scored by Stanfordin the 9th. Georgiapulled off a win against Miami7 to 4, Fresno Statedominated Rice 16 to 5, and North Carolinapulled off a hard win against LSU, winning 8 to 4. Miamiand Florida Statewill play on June 16 (Game 5), as the cross state rivals will bat it out with similar ferocity as the nationally known football rivalry has. Also on the 16, Stanfordwill slug it out with Georgia(Game 6), with the loser playing the winner of the Florida State/Miamimatchup in Game 9. Rice will face LSUon June 17 (Game 7), and the winner will face the loser of the day’s other match between UNC and Fresno State(Game 8) in Game 10.

The winners of Games 6 and 8 will face off against the winners of Game 9 and 10, meaning that the winners of the second round may play against a team they already beat in Games 11 and 12.

All this is a build-up to the Championship Series in Omaha, which is host to the best of college baseball slugging it out for the title.

So crack open a beer, sit back, and watch the underappreciated sport of college baseball on ESPN and ESPN 2 for the next two weeks. Watch the balls fly and the aluminum ping as the college boys of summer duke it out for the top spot and bragging rights for the next year.

--Boomer

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College Majors We Wish We Could Have Been

Remember the days when you would be cutting across the freshly mowed grass of the campus quad, racing with books in hand to a class that started ten minutes ago? As you sprint across the lawn, you almost Birkenstock a casual friend in the face as they lay on the grass with nothing but time to kill.
Remember those days, and remember those people? Those nodding buddies, cats that you would see regularly on your way to class and occasionally at a kegger or packed bar, who seemed to never go to class but always be on campus.
As you’re trying to remember those lackadaisical loungers you should also be trying to figure out what were their majors and why didn’t you major in co-ed anatomy?
Each college has them. While some of them appear to be filled with fluff and lounging time, most off-the-beaten-path majors are rigorous and challenging, further pushing those plucky individuals into a highly specialized and technical field.
At
Clemson, you can major in Turfgrass… That’s right, Turfgrass. The Undergrad major bills itself as “for students interested in careers in the rapidly growing turfgrass industry, with courses in turfgrass management, pathology, agricultural mechanization, personnel management, soil fertility, soil microbiology, weed control, and park and recreation management.” And wait, there’s more, you can be a get a masters in Turfgrass also.
At the University of Florida you can major in Landscape Design. This five year program not only gets you accreditation as a Landscape Architect, you also have to go on at least three field trips and it is highly recommended that you spend a semester abroad. For those of you who were stirred up by the last posting, this was the major you should have taken.
Iowa State has a host of interesting majors, mainly focusing on various elements of agriculture. At Iowa State, you can spend four years studying and learning the many applications of soybeans and soybean oil if you were inclined to major in agronomy. Iowa State's College of Design is host to the Solar Decathlon team, which competes with other environmentally focused architects and design schools to design the future eco-houses today.
At the University of Connecticut you can get a major in Irish Literature, while at Bingham Young University you can major in paleontology and actually spend most of your time rooting around hunting for dinosaurs.
With all the different schools, majors and focuses, it’s somewhat amazing that many of us chose a mainstream path and major in practical fields, only to find out that years later in the professional world that our CEO graduated with a degree in comparative literature.

--Boomer

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Summer Job

Finals are over, empty kegs line the front porches , commercial size trash bags sit outside the dorms—the campus is a veritable ghost town. With the exception of grad students and the football team, most students have left for the summer. Many depart for Europe to enjoy the history, culture, and, more beer, of course , while others have entrained for the beach, picking up where they left off at the last kegger. Most, however, face the gloomy prospect of finding a summer job in their hometown.
There’s nothing like the shell-shocked feeling of that first day home, when your old man—wasting no time—barks, “So, boy, what are you going to do for a job this summer?” What am I going to do? Hmm . . . haven’t really thought about it.
As you languish on the couch watching Springer, delaying the inevitable, you know full well that whatever job you get will be drudgery of the lowest kind. If you’re lucky, you’ll land a sweet gig as lifeguard at the community pool, or, perhaps, driving a Mr. Frosty truck. But those jobs are few and far between and have a long waiting list.
You more than likely will get to earn your stripes as one of the following : manure shoveler and spreader (landscaper); tar hauler and layer (roofer); deep fryer master and mop specialist (fast food employee); nuclear family dinner interrupter (telemarketer); pack-mule imitator (bar back); or masochistic food deliverer (Waiter).
The upshot of all this is, we, who now make six figures a year as lawyers, doctors, accounts, etc., all cut are teeth as manual laborers in some form or another. Some of us are now the diabolical task master that you curse at under your breath. So, remember that this is temporary and that you’ll look back one day and laugh.
With that in mind, it’s time turn off Springer, ease your aching bed sores, and find that dream job. When you’re knee deep in manure and it’s 100 degrees out, remember, collegians, it builds character.

B.B.
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Collegiate Boys of Summer

Collegiate boys of summer
Summer’s here, that means summer jobs for some, skipping out of work every chance you can of others, long days, and of course, baseball.

While a major league game seems to always be on the tube, college baseball games are hardly ever televised and regular reports are scarce. In order to get regular updates on ESPN, you have to navigate through the general college sports section. The national pastime is competing for webspace with lacrosse, soccer, and softball.

This is in stark contrast to college sports big two, football and basketball, who share the stage with their professional counterparts, have their own sections in most sports sections, and in the case of college basketball, virtually shut down the month of March.

But why is college baseball often overlooked?

There is no lack of legacies, as teams like UNC, Clemson, Stanford, University of Kentucky, and University of Texas regularly are batting it out for the number 1 spot in June. And there is no shortage of college talent either, with schools like UCLA routinely putting out talent that goes into the majors.

Many have pointed the lack of interest in college baseball at the farm league system of baseball, which is often where college players go if they eventually want to make it in the majors. This system of farm teams helps separate the chaff from the wheat when it comes to talent, and diplomas do not necessarily mean better athletes and rarely do you ever see a college player drafted directly to the majors.

What this ultimately does is lessen the role of college baseball in the majors, making it harder for fans to watch a player move from college to professional like in football or basketball. Careers like those of Jordan or Johnson are hard to find, where fans were able to see them work their way through the tourney and then have fruitful careers in the NBA.

Also adding to the competition is the role of foreign leagues as pools for talent. Major League Baseball pools from not only the US, but from Latin America and Japan. In some of these cases, baseball talent is tapping players as young as fifteen, making college a hard sell.

But all is not lost for college baseball. As June rolls around the College World Series heats up and college baseball starts competing with the MLB for ESPN airtime. This is where you can watch many of the future prospects for the majors start to learn the finesse of batting under pressure and maybe, one day, see the 19-year-old stepping up to the plate transform into a major league slugger.

--Boomer


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Finals and finality

As the weather warms and the days get longer, finals are upon us. Once again will college students resume the tradition of late night cramming, accelerated paper writing, and living on a healthy diet of caffeine, no-doze, cigarettes, and fingernails?

There are students out there that throughout the semester planned for finals, took detailed notes, and linked class topics together to create a grand narrative to which they will expound in their blue books. But unfortunately, most of us aren’t them.

Across the nation students will be piling into libraries, be it Pattee Library at Penn State , Draughon Library at Auburn , or College Library at UCLA , and feverishly cramming as much information about the 30 Years War, thermoclines, and French literature into their heads as possible. Once the last paper is turned in, the last Scantron penciled-in, and the last blue book filled with facts, students may utter a sigh of relief and look back at the past couple weeks with a sense of accomplishment.

For those of us who are lucky enough to have survived this period, we may have forgotten the challenges of finals because we’ve been inundated time and time again with our jobs and lives. But remember, while in life seems to be much more intense than anything College had to offer, it is a slow burn of responsibilities, not a downpour of fleeting knowledge.

And for what is this rite of passage that finals are for? The finality of university study, a cap and gown, commencement speeches the movers and shakers of the world, and an expensive piece of paper that tells the world that you made it!

But graduation is a solemn time for many, a sign that after years of hard study and harder dedication, they have risen to the challenge and now face an even greater challenge, the unstructured joy of self determination. For now the real challenge of life begins, where your learning is not based on the whim of a professor or course advisor, and you can determine the path you want to take.

College is an interesting incubation period, halfway between the supervised days under your parents’ roof and the responsibility laden time that waits after college. It lets us develop into rounded individuals, who at the time may scoff at the idea that knowing German will ever come in handy until they find themselves lost in the back alleys of Dusseldorf, with a sense of accomplishment.

-Boomer

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Traditions

Traditions...

As the students of Arizona State University strip down to their underwear and ran through their campus, they were starting what many hope will be a yearly charity event, and even more importantly, a tradition. ASU is not the first school to have an Undie Run, UCLA has been having nearly-naked runs since 2002, and the run has become something of a tradition to the Bruins. Penn State
is witness to an annual bare-ass event during finals, where mostly male students streak down Mifflin Road, trying to avoid getting arrested for public lewdness.

But what makes a onetime event such as the ASU Undie Run catch on and become a tradition? Every school has several, be it to support the football team or to break the stress of finals. Yale has the ball hop in December, a roving semi-formal that moves from one college residence hall to another throughout the night.
Texas A&M has the Midnight Yell practice, where yell leaders lead the crowd of Aggiesthrough fight songs, old army yells, and chants the night before the first football game as a way to pump up the Twelfth Man, the Aggie faithful.
UNC has the Old Well, where freshman line-up to drink from the well before their first class, because tradition holds that if a student drinks from the well before their first class they will graduate with a 4.0. While campaigns to stop grade inflation have made getting a 4.0 a bit harder than drinking from an old fountain, the tradition still lives.

But what makes a tradition last? Most seem to start out as informal events, the brainchild of a group of students who will probably drift back into obscurity but whose actions will resonate throughout the ages.

It often starts as something simple, like at Boston College’s
Superfans, who were trying to make the Eagles games more exciting, creating a “Gold Rush Game.” The Superfans managed to turn the entire student section gold with “Superfan” t-shirts during a televised game against Virginia Tech, and now no game, be it basketball or volleyball, is without a few specs of gold scattered throughout the crowd.

These events, myths, and anomalies help unify the student body, and those that participate seem to develop a vested interested in not only their GPA and classes, but the culture and social aspect of the school. It adds much more to the classes, the games, and the parties. Having traditions not only helped us get through the finals, but they also are something we hold onto well after we graduate. They help us reconnect to our glory days, returning that gleam of idealism and youth that has lost its luster after the years away from our hollowed days at college.

--Boomer


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2008 Graduation Sale--15% off plus FREE S&H

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