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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Officials began working Sunday to modify the pregame schedule for Monday night's Bowl Championship Series title game, incorporating time to remember victims of the mass shooting in Tucson, a city just two hours to the southeast.
Plans are for something more than a moment of silence, said Duane Woods, chairman of the overseeing Fiesta Bowl board of directors. "We're going to go back through the schedule and try to carve out the time we need so we can do something significant," he said.
"People understand there's life and there's a game. We all do. I think this is a moment of self-reflection on what's really important."
Fiesta, BCS, ESPN and other officials were to conduct a timed game-day walkthrough Sunday at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale.
Six people were killed and 14, including Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, injured in the shooting at a Tucson strip mall Saturday morning. Woods knows the congresswoman but not well, he said. Other Fiesta board members are more closely acquainted with her, he said.
Security for the No. 1-vs.-2 showdown between Auburn and Oregon, already heightened, will not need further tightening, Woods said. Bowl officials held a previously scheduled meeting Saturday -- after the shootings -- with law enforcement representatives of the FBI, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms and other agencies.
-- Steve Wieberg
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