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Not just any game, the 'Big Game'

By Ted Miller
ESPN.com

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Everyone loves the Big Game between Stanford and California. Everyone. Why? Because without the Big Game, you wouldn't have "the most amazing, sensational, dramatic, heartrending, exciting, thrilling finish in the history of college football." That, of course, is longtime Bears announcer Joe Starkey's lovably befuddled call of "The Play," the miraculous five-lateral kickoff return in 1982 that concluded with Cal's Kevin Moen weaving through the Stanford band, which had prematurely taken the ...

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