Category: Sport
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In lieu of fresh content from us (it’s coming, promise), Everday Should Be Saturday shares Two or Three Things They Know About Notre Dame: Ushers at Notre Dame, you may suck our ass. The red-stater in us, the free-wheeling libertarian who wants you off our land right now, stranger, the bottle-wielding redneck in us wanted…
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Not quite as much fun as HBO’s Rome — but nice to see the money from all those wedding, funeral, birthday gigs bought the Trojan Marching Band a nice vacation. Just seems a little cruel to make them march all the way thru Europe. USC Marching Trojans at Colloseum [YouTube – Thanks, Freerdo]
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We should probably be directing this question to Matt Millen, Rod Marinelli & Co. — but seriously, what the hell happened? MIA: One-time Amazing USC Receiver Mike Williams [The Big Lead]
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Or, as the burnt orange-wearing conspiracy theorists aptly asked this morning: does somebody at ABC hate Texas so much that they played the Wolfpack-Spartans game over Texas-Nebraska this morning? Also, to the people who run the ESPN Gameplan/ABC feeds, and make the call on when to shut off the ESPN Gameplan feed without notice (like,…
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Just barely sneaking in before the start of action today, here’s your Week 8 Action News Power Rankings: T-Wire/Action News Pac-10 Power Rankings – Week 8 1.) USC Ron’s latest accomplishment — most maligned 6-0 performance in modern history. 2.) Cal Cal’s student paper is already counting a W for the Bears’ November 18th matchup…
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(Photo by Jill Greenberg for Los Angeles Magazine) Why yes. Yes they do. “Trojans Rule!” and other Absurd Utterances [LAist]
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Your Pac-10 Coaches (South Park style) [U-Dub Dish]
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Offensive tackle, Winston Justice (pictured on the right there behind Brodrick Bunkley), could get his first NFL start. With William Thomas still ailing from back spasms, Justice yesterday continued to take snaps with the first-team offense. He could earn not only his first action, but his first start, on Sunday. Facing the Tampa Bay Bucs…
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From Wednesday’s L.A. Times: Dwayne Polee Jr., a 6-foot-6 freshman guard, said Tuesday he has made a commitment to USC, even though he has yet to play in a high school basketball game and is only 14 years old. Polee’s father was a standout at Los Angeles Manual Arts and Pepperdine; he’s been working out…
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A little of the ol’ “Did You Know” from Scott Wolf: USC coach Pete Carroll had a cameo role in the 1973 Disney movie, ”The World’s Greatest Athlete.” Jan-Michael Vincent starred in the movie about a Tarzan-type athlete discovered by a coach played by Tim Conway . . . well, you get the idea. Carroll,…
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From David Leon Moore, USA TODAY: No. 2 in the country. No. 3 in the Pacific-10 Conference? That’s the perception some people have this week of Southern California, whose three-year run at or near the top of the polls continues despite a series of squeaker-type wins against supposed mediocre, middle-of-the-pack Pac-10 teams. PERCEPTION: Close games…
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We took last week off — sometimes you just have to indulge in a week away from the Punditry. So much Ballot Burn. But we’re back, with Maxwell Pundit Vote Number Seven. Rawk: 1.) Adrian Peterson (Oklahoma) Yes, we know — he’s done for the season, his career as a Sooner virtually certain to have…
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