Dudley worked hard to bring best teams to Liberty Bowl : Football : Memphis Commercial Appeal

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 Dudley worked hard to bring best teams to Liberty Bowl :  Football : Memphis Commercial Appeal
For the longest time, when college football didn't rely on conference tie-ins to provide bowl matchups, the bowl business was the Wild Wild West with backroom, under-the-table deals commonplace between schools and bowls. And year in and year out, when some of the most storied programs in college football history, such Alabama, Nebraska, Notre Dame and Penn State, ended up in the Liberty Bowl, ... [link]

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Published 6/18/2008 by dawizofodds (noreply@blogger.com) at The Wizard of Odds
... Ron Higgins, Memphis Commercial Appeal: Liberty Bowl founder A.F. "Bud" Dudley died at the age of 88 after an extended illness. ...

CURIOUS INDEX, 6/18/08
Published 6/18/2008 by Orson Swindle at EDSBS
... The founder of the Liberty Bowl, A.F. “Bud” Dudley, is dead. Pay tribute to the AutoZone founder today by taking a dead battery to a local auto parts store, and then claim that it came that way, and you’d like a new one of an entirely different size and voltage. ...

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