Category: Sport
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Coming off an up-and-down sophomore season and turbulent off-season, Nebraska tailback isn’t looking past the next game, against No. 1 USC. LINCOLN, Neb. — The subject of Saturday’s game between USC and Nebraska — and the hyperbole sparked by two nationally ranked teams drenched in football tradition — does not get very far with Marlon…
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<!–start image–><!– end image–>Welcome to the second installment of USCFootball.com’s new interactive feature, Ask a Trojan. We gathered your input, chose some of your best questions and took them to redshirt freshman fullback Stanley Havili. On Wednesday he gave his thoughts on 10 of the questions sent in by USCFootball.com member
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Pete Carroll said either Charles Brown or Drew Radovich will start at right tackle. Chauncey Washington will play in first quarter but C.J. Gable starts.
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Freshman Joe McKnight is supposed to start returning some punts against Nebraska.
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You knew it wasn’t going to be pretty with Michigan and Notre Dame both coming into the game at 0-2. Folks are having a field day out there. The guys at Respect the Cocks (yes, it’s a CFB site) ask, Is it too late for ABC to back out?… And MZone reader Killing My Liver…
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USC tailback Chauncey Washington was supposed to start the season opener against Idaho, but he suffered a shoulder sprain in the Trojans’ final training camp scrimmage.
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Mark Saxon, OC Register As an NCAA investigation into the Reggie Bush matter drags toward its two-year anniversary, officials in the USC athletic department are increasingly confident little will come of it. In his first public comments on the matter, Athletic Director Mike Garrett said he is not worried about forthcoming sanctions. Neither Garrett or…
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Samuel McKewon, Nebraska StatePaper.com Well, look who stood up for The Good Life. Apparently Pete Carroll’s been to Nebraska once before and it wasn’t for a football game. When a reporter Tuesday asked Carroll why he would go to Nebraska for something else, the Southern California coach had an answer fit for a travel agency.…
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LA Times columnist TJ Simers rode the welcome wagon tractor in Nebraska, accepting some Midwest hospitality in response to a column written ahead of his trip to watch USC take on the Cornhuskers. He was very, well, TJ Simers. Dana Parsons cracked yesterday that Simers is the paper’s “chief diplomatic correspondent.” We figured he could…
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<!–start image–><!– end image–>Sedrick Ellis and Kristofer O’Dowd never figured to have much to do with each other. But after a preseason of relentless taunting from the senior to the true freshman, and an injury that vaulted O’Dowd to the top of the depth chart, Ellis and O’Dowd have found themselves pitted against each other…
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***Bonus Hotline post that will appear as my weekly column in Thursday’s Mercury News. So it appears that Les Miles got it half right. One team in the projected national championship showdown has an easier road than the other: Louisiana State. USC’s road? Brutal. The Pac-10? Best… Continue reading…
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To commemorate the 1960 Washington Huskies, who beat No. 1 Minnesota in the Rose Bowl, the university wanted to market throwback jerseys with the number 60 on them this season. Northwest retailers, however, balked at 60. The retailers’ message: “Put No. 10 on it, and we’ll buy them.” They did and they’re selling as fast…
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