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Daily Huddle 4-14-12

Top links, stories and photos from around the web.

A cool vintage logo to get us started today.

A vintage Texas Tech logo

The best story today is about Trent Richardson and how he is taking a leukemia patient to her senior prom.

Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyCBS) breaks more college football news than anyone. Our friend Allen Kenney (@BlatantHomerism) from Crystal Ball Run got a chance to sit down and do a podcast with him.

The Florida Citrus Bowl, home of the Champs Sports Bowl and the Capital One Bowls are played, badly needs upgraded, as I have covered before. Unfortunately, red tape continues to get in the way, delaying the $175 million renovation project.

Is it possible that Syracuse will wear white pants this year?

Defensive End Aaron Lynch is leaving Notre Dame.

The Belk Bowl is hiring two interns.

Jessica Dorrell has been placed on administrative leave. Of course, here is an SI story on how Arkansas cheated the system just to hire Dorrell.

A blindside type story on USC wide receiver Marqise Lee.

[photo via @TechAthletics]

Trip Update: Finishing Day Four

I woke up at 2am to make the trip to Atlanta but decided that I wasn’t going to be able to safely drive so I went back to bed till around 7am. This meant that I had to skip the Georgia basketball game, but I’m doing this for fun, not to injure myself or someone else.

 

I made it to Atlanta and picked up my credential with 10 minutes to spare. The bowl gift was a wireless Chick-fil-A Bowl branded mouse, which was handy because when I made it to my room, I found the batteries on my mouse dead.

 

Getting checked into the hotel was an ordeal as I am not familiar with standard procedure at these types of hotels. To be honest, every other hotel I stayed in on this trip cost less than $37 so the bellmen and the valet parking was quite the shock.

 

Once I got everything up to my room I settled in for about 30 minutes and got the Champs Sports Bowl videos uploaded and posted. Then I got ready for the Atlanta Hawks game and went over to the media party.

 

The food was excellent and I tried some sort of beer called Sweet Water. It was alright but not something I could drink a six-pack of.

 

I’m not a huge fan of basketball and didn’t watch the game real intently. I spend most of the second half of the game talking to one of the bowl workers, Patrick, about the bowl, it’s history and how it is run.

 

I learned a lot of information, including the fact that the Chick-fil-A Bowl only has 11 full time employees. They have over 250 volunteers who meet twice a month beginning in September to prepare for the game.

 

That is quite different from the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl who told me last year that they operate with just three full time employees and only have one, two hour volunteer meeting the week prior to the game.

 

Overall it was a good day and I got to experience my first ever NBA game.

Trip Update: Beginning Day Four

I got up at 2:30am and decided there was no way I was awake enough to drive another 11 hours today, so I slept a few more hours and did some work.

 

Now leaving for Atlanta to pick up my credential, check into my hotel and then attend the Atlanta Hawks game.

 

Post game interviews are edited and will be uploaded when I get to Atlanta, along with my photos from the Champs Sports Bowl.