Tommy Bain still vividly remembers his first Cotton Bowl, watching alongside his father as TCU faced Jim Brown and Syracuse in 1957.

Brad Ecklund, who snapped the ball and blocked for Norm Van Brocklin on the Oregon football team that played in the 1949 Cotton Bowl, died Saturday in Pennsylvania of congestive heart failure at age 87.

If Frisco, Tex., is able to wrest the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) game away from Chattanooga, the current planned date would need to be changed because the Cotton Bowl is being held at the same time there, ESPNDallas.com said.

Who’s the real Abu Jindal aka Zabiuddin Ansari? This is one of the most disturbing questions that the residents of Beed and Gevrai towns, in the dusty cotton bowl of Beed district in Maharashtra, are trying to come to terms with ever since news broke out that intelligence agencies have identified one of the handlers from Pakistan, who spoke to the 26/11 terrorists at the Chabad House, as Syed …

THE BIGGEST SPORTS event in America, the Super Bowl, will be played in the neighborhood next year.

SUNDAY NIGHT LEAGUE January 31, 2010 W L A T Refrigeration 19 5 Have N Fun 171?2 61?2 Gene’s Team 16 8 Pin Snatchers 16 8 Cotton Bowl Lanes 151?2 81?2 Silver Bullet 14 10 Art’s Radiator Works 14 10 Mesa Tops 14 10 Misfits 8 16 Strike Force 6 18 Fearsome Four 4 20 Week’s High Games Men – Dave Schmitz 244, Jeff Egnew 232, Andrew Hilt 229

A pair of highly-touted football prospects from Skyline will find themselves on opposing sidelines when the Red River Rivalry kicks off at the Cotton Bowl this fall.

SUNDAY NIGHT LEAGUE January 24, 2010 W L Have N Fun 15 5 A T Refrigeration 15 5 Cotton Bowl Lanes 14 6 Gene’s Team 13 7 Art’s Radiator Works 12 8 Pin Snatchers 12 8 Mesa Tops 10 10 Silver Bullet 9 11 Misfits 6 14 Strike Force 6 14 Fearsome Four 4 16 Week’s High Games Men – Richard Stone 279, Dan Rodman 265, Bill Nowry 245

When Oklahoma State and Ole Miss met in the Cotton Bowl Classic this month, coaches raved about the perks of playing in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area — one of the most fertile recruiting …

MOBILE, Ala. – Five players turning heads in Mobile, Ala., impressing watchful NFL eyes during this week’s Senior Bowl practices: Dexter McCluster is impressing scouts with his speed, toughness and versatility. Riley Cooper, WR, Florida