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Mitch Dorger to resign as Rose Bowl CEO at end of season

By Chris Dufresne
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Mitch Dorger, who will turn 63 in September, said today he will step down as the Rose Bowl’s chief executive officer after the bowl hosts this season’s Bowl Championship Series national title game on Jan. 7, 2010.

‘It seems like a good time to do it,’ Dorger said.

The Rose Bowl will host its traditional game on Jan.1 this season and then the BCS title game a week later. Dorger said a search committee has been retained to find his successor.

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Dorger has spent a decade as the game’s CEO and helped usher the Rose Bowl through the complicated and controversial era of the BCS, which began in 1998.

‘I’ve always been a believer of changing out people to keep the energy of the organization fresh,’ Dorger said. ‘I think it will be good for the organization.’

-- Chris Dufresne

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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