Category: Sport
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With the NCAA Track and Field West Regionals this weekend, here’s a photo of an often overlooked figure at USC: Track coach Dean Cromwell (with Greta Garbo of course). Cromwell won 12 NCAA titles, including nine straight from 1935-43. He also coached the football team for five years for those of you who think only…
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Somewhat related since Thom is a USC alum. The high school across the street from SC on the corner of Exposition/Figueroa and the CalTrans building in Downtown are some of his works nearby campus. He won the Pritzker Prize in 2005. Pretty interesting to hear about the influences to some of his projects.
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Nick impresses during workouts: This wasn’t Young’s best shooting day from what we were told, even though from our perspective the 3-ball still went in for him at a pretty nice rate. In the 79 3-pointers (NBA and college) that we charted him on, he hit 56, which is a very solid 71% clip. His…
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The team’s proposed three-day trip to Mexico would be during Labor Day Weekend the first week of September, if Floyd can get approval from the university. He’s hoping to use the 10 practice days and three games against international competition to get USC’s key imcoming freshmen acquainted. “We probably lost more scoring than anyone in…
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Gabe Pruitt, who recently hired an agent to make it impossible for him to return to USC basketball, did so after finding out he was academically ineligible based on his spring semester grades, according to coach Tim Floyd. Floyd said that Pruitt could have applied for reinstatement and likely used summer school to regain his…
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In the wake of the unusual buddy relationship of Russell Crowe and Lloyd Carr, this week’s list is best celeb fans. I’m capping this to exclude actual former athletes who shill for their own programs …
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Point guard Brandon Jennings, one of the top prospects in the nation from the Class of 2008, committed to Arizona today. Jennings originally committed to USC last fall. As recently as mid-March, Jennings remained firmly committed to USC. But as we understand it from high-school basketball sources, a third party entered the picture around that…
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The USC basketball team might travel to Mexico this fall to play several exhibition games. The NCAA allows teams to travel abroad every four years and this year makes sense because the Trojans lost their top three scorers and need to blend freshmen into key positions. More important than the three games down in Mexico,…
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Our friends at UCLA have a lot of explaining to do. The picture above shows that jackass from “American Idol” fame, Sanjaya, shooting a spot Friday on Venice Beach. Now why is this assclown disgracing the Wizard of Odds? He is dressed in a Bruin jersey and said to be dancing with UCLA cheerleaders. If…
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Quarterback Mitch Mustain, who started eight games as a freshman last season for Arkansas, has officially enrolled at USC, Trojans Coach Pete Carroll said today.
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