Category: Sport
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Virginia Tech drops to 17th in coaches’ poll after blowout loss
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Jamie Rodriguez, USCFootball.com While the Trojans technically had the week off, Pete Carroll and his staff were still hard at work on the practice field. Preparation for next Saturday’s showdown with undefeated Nebraska won’t officially begin until Monday, but the focus for the Huskers begun the moment USC went 1-0… continue
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Rich Hammond, LA Daily News There’s more to playing center than snapping the football. So while USC freshman Kristofer O’Dowd earned positive reviews last week for his flawless exchanges with quarterback John David Booty, coach Pete Carroll looked deeper and saw room for improvement. Specifically, Carroll said O’Dowd needs to improve his blocking calls at…
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Chris Dufresne, Los Angeles Times In other games USC fans should have been monitoring closely: No. 2 Louisiana State routed No. 9 Virginia Tech in a game that proved LSU is good and the Atlantic Coast Conference isn’t. ESPN’s Lee Corso said at halftime of the LSU game that the Tigers, not USC, deserved to be…
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Mark Saxon, OC Register What began as an upper-case, exclamation-point worry for the USC football team became a small-letters concern after three weeks of fall camp. After one game, it’s in fine print. Replacing the most productive wide receiver combination in school history suddenly doesn’t look so impossible as the Trojans head into next Saturday’s game…
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All summer when people asked about a tough road game on USC’s schedule, I kept mentioning Washington. After two games, it looks like an extremely formidable game, as Ty Willingham seems to have turned the program around (just as Charlie Weis implodes without Willingham’s players anymore). The same goes for Oregon, although more people expect…
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Great article from Andy Katz of ESPN.com on the real O.J. Mayo: Yet, with all of this, there is no question that Mayo was polite, cordial and respectful during his two days in Mexico. It’s easy to paint Mayo in a negative light. He has been hyped since the eighth grade. He was accused of…
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Freshman Marcus Barnett caught a touchdown pass and recovered a blocked punt in the end zone, helping Cincinnati turn Oregon State’s mistakes into a 3…
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Marc Tyler’s second practice including the punishment of being forced to roll on the grass because he was late to a weightlifting session.
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John David Booty and Kris O’Dowd spent this week and next working on the shotgun for the first time. But don’t expect a big influx of shotgun plays. It remains a specific-purpose feature and is not something the coaches seem to like on a frequent basis. If USC starts using, it probably means the offense…
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Our colleagues over at EDSBS had an article today about the Kansas St. Wildcats pre-game video. I must say that it is by far, the worst pre-game video in the history of college sports. Students taking an Intro to Film class could piece together something better than this dogshit video. The clip features the K.…
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