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The LA Bowl, once sponsored by Kimmel and hosted by Gronk, is shutting down after just 5 editions

By The Associated Press

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — The LA Bowl is shutting down after five years of play.

The organization announced the long-expected decision on social media Thursday.

The bowl game was established in 2020 as another national showcase for the multibillion-dollar arena complex built by Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke.

After its debut was delayed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the LA Bowl began play in 2021 with comedian Jimmy Kimmel as its title sponsor.

The game cycled through several naming-rights sponsors during its brief existence, and the past three editions were “hosted” by former Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski.

The Mountain West champion played in four of the five games, matched against West Coast schools with Pac-12 roots.

Washington won the final edition of the LA Bowl, routing Boise State 38-10 on Dec. 13.

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Ex-Nebraska AD Bill Moos writes in memoir Kelly, not Frost, was his first choice for football coach

By The Associated Press
Former Nebraska athletic director Bill Moos wrote in a book released this week that Scott Frost was not his first choice to be the Cornhuskers' coach in 2017, that he was ordered to undergo an evaluation for alcoholism and that he looked into the possibility of Nebraska leaving the Big Ten and returning to the Big 12. Moos was at Nebraska from October 2017 until June 2021, when he announced his retirement. In his memoir, “Crab Creek Chronicles: From the Wheat Fields to the Ball Fields and Beyond,” Moos wrote that he sensed top administrators wanted him out long before he left. Moos was widely hailed for hiring Frost and men's basketball coach Fred Hoiberg, but he acknowledged his initial focuses in his searches were on Chip Kelly and Dana Altman. Late in the 2017 season, Moos flew to New Hampshire to meet with Kelly, whom he had known since Kelly was offensive coordinator at Oregon. Kelly went on to go 46-7 in four years as head coach and then spent four years in the NFL. He was out of coaching in 2017, and Moos left their four-hour meeting excited about the prospect of hiring Kelly.
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