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Chris Rickert: Hint of hypocrisy in Rose Bowl ‘gifts’

If you haven?t heard, players and coaches were recently ushered into a suite stocked with 27 tony gifts and allowed to select up to $500 worth of leather recliners, digital cameras, headphones, camcorders, mountain bikes and the like ? all on Rose Bowl sponsors? dime. It came as a surprise to me to learn that this is standard practice in NCAA Division I college football, whose 69 other bowl-bound teams are getting a similar perk.