I attended the Tournament of Roses Parade, then the Rose Bowl Game. ...

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21. My interest in the Rose Bowl died when Fox Sports killed the Pac 10/12. So much tradition lost.

For those who are unaware, Fox Sports engineered the collapse of the largest college sports conference west of the Mississippi by financially enticing UCLA and USC to surreptitiously jump ship from the Pac 12 conference to the Midwest's largest college sports conference (the Big 10). Once this was accomplished, the rest of the Pac 12 quickly collapsed, taking with it 100 years of West Coast sports tradition. The move was so despicable that the University of California Board of Regents very nearly blocked UCLA's move to the Big 10. In the end, UCLA was tagged with a $30 million fine, payable to U.C. Berkeley, for damages done to that school's sports program. The damages will not come close to compensating Cal for their loss. Meanwhile, Berkeley and Stanford were both left with no better option than to join the Atlantic Coast Conference, an arrangement that will force student athletes at both universities to make numerous annual 5,000+ mile road trips to play ACC opponents on the East Coast. Money did this. Fox did this.