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Dates: during 1990-1999
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College football is set for a dramatic finish next weekend, when three games will determine which two teams play in the Fiesta Bowl with the national title on the line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BCS `Solution' a Mystery | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...this: Florida State ends up with one loss, finishes fifth in the polls and winds up with a ticket to Tempe to play for the title in the Fiesta Bowl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seminole Win Clouds Bowl Picture | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

Today, the first BCS standings will be released, The standings, based on a complex formula giving equal weight to the polls, computer ratings, strength-of-schedule and won-loss records, will determine who plays in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 4. The standings will be updated weekly, with the final list set to be released...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seminole Win Clouds Bowl Picture | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...Nebraska (5-0) nearly dropped off the road to the Fiesta Bowl--the Bowl Championship Series' designated title game--but defensive end Mike Rucker stopped Nathan Simmons at the I on the last play of the game and the Cornhuskers beat the Cowboys 24-17 at Arrowhead Stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ohio State Defense Swamps Penn State, 28-9 | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

Along with stories by well known authors like Wolff, Stone and Cynthia Ozick, are the works of emerging talents like newly minted literary wunderkind Junot Diaz. "Fiesta, 1980"--which is also included in Diaz's critically lauded 1996 debut "Drown"--details a Dominican American boy's encounters with his father's Puerto Rican mistress and his experience at a lively family party. Here Diaz once again proves that he is one of the best young writers around not for what Proulx calls his distinct "cultural, ethnic, and class" perspective, but because underneath his deceptively simple, "street vernacular" prose...

Author: By Brandon K. Walston, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Best of the Best | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

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