Possible Clues:

• Pasadena arena
• Pasadena event
• Big game on January 1
• Female takeover for the flower show
• NCAA's "Granddaddy of them all"
• Big game in college
• *1994 World Cup final site
• Got up to deliver plant in this?
• Receptacle for (English?) flowers
• Cricket ground has slower ball spinning: all out, including duck