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donations for Citrus Bowl is ludicrous idea  8:23 p.m. EST,
April 21, 2012|Mike Bianchi, SPORTS COMMENTARY  I pledge $50 to
get the Citrus Bowl refurbished.  My buddy Jeff says he'll
match.  How 'bout you?  Are you in?  Because if you're not, it's
looking like our dumpy, dilapidated football stadium will never
be renovated. And that means our premier college football bowl
games and other potential tourism-attracting sporting events
will become as extinct as the duckbilled platypus.  And speaking
of the duckbilled platypus, is this who gave Orange County Mayor
Teresa Jacobs the idea she recently put into a memo; the one
that said if the Citrus Bowl is going to be renovated then it
may require private donations like the ones received by the
Performing Arts Center?  Memo back to Jacobs: 70,000 fans from
Nebraska and Louisiana don't fly in, stay for a week and leave
behind $100 million in economic impact to see Mary Poppins.  But
maybe we shouldn't be so har