UPDATE  The Fresno State Alumni Association's Red Wave Tailgate sold out Wednesday afternoon at 2,700 to make the biggest Fresno State Alumni Association tailgate ever, home or away. In addition to the Bulldog Marching Band, Fresno State Cheerleaders and Timeout, a tailgate rally will include President John D. Welty and Athletics Director Thomas Boeh, pending their arrival schedule. The Bulldog Shop will have a booth at the Red Wave Tailgate for your last minute needs today.

Friday night’s reception, with about 100 RSVPs received, will be held in one of Southern California’s most popular spots, Moose McGillycuddy’s -- the cornerstone of the party scene in Old Pasadena (119 E. Colorado Blvd). It features a sports bar, restaurant and dancing.

Dress code and age requirements are in effect after 8 p.m.  For example, Bulldog football jerseys are acceptable prior to 8 p.m. but not after. You’ll have to change in to your Bulldog shirt or sweater.

Links:

www.fresnostatenews.com/2005/10/1027tailgate.htm 

www.moosespasadena.com/

www.pasadena.com/AdView.asp?ad_id=204

 

 UPDATE  ESPN Radio 1430 to broadcast from Red Wave Tailgate
Fresno-based ESPN 1430 AM radio will broadcast live from the Red Wave Tailgate sponsored by the Fresno State Alumni Association on Saturday in Jesse Brewer Park prior to the USC game. Paul Swearingen will be on the air from 4 to 7p.m with his pre-game show using the set that ESPN displays in teh Red Lot at home games. After the game, he will do his one-hour post game show.


Bulldog Marching Band stops in Bakersfield Friday enroute to USC
The Bulldog Marching Band will sound out an action-packed weekend for the USC game Saturday. On Friday, the 240-member band departs the campus at noon for Southern California and will make a special stop in Bakersfield to perform at Centennial High School (8601 Hageman).

More than 50 schools in the south Valley have been invited to watch the band as it rehearses for an exhibition performance it will do on Saturday morning at the Western Band Association Prelims in Long Beach.

The Bakersfield exhibition, from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m., is partly a recruitment effort for the band.

Saturday morning, the band will perform a 15-minute exhibition at the WBA Prelims – Gangsta Jazz Show. At 5:15 p.m. the entire band will perform in full uniform at the Red Wave Tailgate at Jesse Brewer Park across from the Los Angeles Coliseum.

After the tailgate Saturday afternoon, the band will send a 60-member USC game squad in full uniform into the Coliseum for the Bulldogs contest against the Trojans. Following the game, the band will return to Fresno.

For those wanting to complete the Saturday Red Wave invasion of Los Angeles, the band is also selling its 2004 CD. It is available for a $10 donation at the Bulldog Shoppe, the Farm Market and the Marching Band office. Proceeds underwrite production costs for the annual CD which is used for recruiting.

Information: 278- 278-5086. Samples of the band’s music can be heard at its web site: http://www.csufresno.edu/marchingband/ 

 

USC Game -- Chicano Alumni Tailgate

On Saturday, Fresno State’s Chicano Alumni chapter of the Alumni Association will be hosted by the USC Mexican-American Alumni Association at a private pre-game tailgate before the football game. Chicano Alumni President Manuel Olgin will present a gift of Fresno State Wines to USC MAAA President Raul Vargas.  The USC alumni will decorate the tailgate with balloons in both colleges’ colors. The Fresno State Chicano Alumni Bus departs at 10:00 a.m. from the Ramada Inn Parking lot. Countrywide Home Loans is the tailgate sponsor. More information: Manuel Olgin (559) 871-8463. 

Links: www.chicanoalumni.com/

www.usc.edu/student-affairs/MAAA-Web/scholarship.htm

 

Divided Loyalties

For twelve Fresno State professors, Saturday’s game brings on mixed emotions as they have at least one of their degrees from USC. Six of them hold degrees from both universities. For interviews, contact Tom Uribes.

 

The Red Wave Bus Invasion

The Fresno State Athletic Department partnered with FAN-tastic Sports for several football travel packages. David Hauser reports that they sold out at 200 seat packages.  About five buses will leave from Fresno State at the Blue Lot on the south side of Bulldog Stadium in the morning and drop them off at the Westin Bonaventure hotel to check-in and rest before the heading for tailgates.  After the game, the buses will drive them back to the hotel for the night before departing the next morning for the trip back to Fresno.  Media contact: 480.283.4509.

Another bus venture headed by longtime booster Tim Schiller will have 17 buses rambling down Hwy 99 over the Grapevine to do their part in the big game. Schiller has 850 fans booked with four buses as overnighters.  About 600 of these have bought tickets for the Alumni Assn. tailgate. Schiller ‘s buses depart from Lot Q (Barstow Ave. just east of Cedar) around 9 or 10 a.m. and arrive at Coliseum around 4 p.m. for tailgating. Some of his buses stop in Visalia and Bakersfield to pick South Valley Red Wavers. Media contact: 225-3164. 

Wild weekend: from Trojans to Rolling Stones

Why stay in Los Angeles after the game when you can come back for some world class entertainment right here in Fresno on Sunday (Nov. 20) when the Rolling Stones perform at the Save Mart Center. But like the Trojan-Bulldogs game, the Rolling Stones concert is sold out. For those with tickets to both, will it be the perfect capper to a momentous weekend?

Link: www.savemartcenter.com/events/?eventID=61

 UPDATE  Fresno weekend includes USC and the Rolling Stones...The Fresno Bee - Nov. 17

Bakersfield rally; Bulldog Band performs public exhibition at Centennial High Friday
Bakersfield Bulldog fans will join USC fans for a tailgate rally at Stockdale Country Club at 7 p.m. today (Nov. 17) to celebrate Saturday’s showdown between the teams in Los Angeles.

Tickets are $25. The event is open to all USC and Fresno State alumni and fans and will feature a hosted bar, a tailgate style buffet and a raffle for some Bulldogs souvenirs.

Gena Strang, assistant director of development for Athletics at Fresno State, will attend the rally as well as meet with some Bakersfield area boosters Friday morning to discuss establishing a Quarterback Club chapter in the south Valley.

On Saturday, five Bakersfield boosters’ buses depart for the game at about 1 p.m. and arrive at the Coliseum at about 4 p.m.

For more information, contact Sheri McKeighan at 661.837.8258.

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