Category: Sport
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Maybe Reggie Bush should have never made a request to wear No. 5 in the NFL. Maybe the New Orleans Saints should have named him their starting QB, thus qualifying him for numbers 1-19. NFL Rule 5, Section 1, Article 4 needs to change. Because aside from all the merchandising money left on the table,…
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USC President Stephen B. Sample sent a letter to the Coliseum Commission regarding their negotiations with the NFL. In it he stressed three things that are important to USC: that seating not drop below 80,000 that the renovation not keep USC out of the Coliseum for more than two years that Coliseum officials not sign…
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Ivan Maisel writes: Now that [Pete] Carroll is at USC, he allows no outside coaches to visit. Not even legends. “I talked to Pete a couple of years ago,” [FSU Coach Bobby] Bowden said. “I said, ‘I sure would like to go out there and talk to Norm Chow. He said, ‘We don’t do that.’”…
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Back-up safety Will Harris will redshirt this season after tearing knee ligaments in a pickup basketball game. Harris originally tore knee ligaments last fall, but was expected to be 100% this fall. Safety Harris out for season [LA Daily News]
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With three departures from USC’s offensive line, Matt Spanos was certainly going to see some playing time, if not a starting spot this season at left guard or right tackle. But even with quitting spring practice early to focus on academics, the official grades were posted last Friday and Matt Spanos has been ruled academically…
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On Friday, Chauncey Washington’s grades were posted officially. The tailback who is part Lightning and part Thunder took the institution of education by storm — posting a GPA well beyond the required 3.0. USC just has to clear him, and the fourth-year junior is ready to play some football. Washington makes grades [OC Register]
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The source of this comes from some undisclosed tabloid, but Jeannette Walls’ of MSNBC writes at the end of her “Scoop” column: Paris Hilton’s new sweetie has been warned to do something that might be difficult: stay out of the spotlight. New Arizona Cardinal quarterback and former USC star Matt Leinart was warned by his…
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From the Longhorn smuggler Ramonce Taylor’s Myspace page (thank you Google caching): Movies: I like Friday,Next friday,Old school, American pie, Bad boyz 1&;2, Boyz in the hood. Television: ESPN Books: I don’t like to read!!!! A man of few words. We like that. Well said, Ramonce. So That Would Be Why He Has So Many…
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Jim Mashek pleads for the NFL to allow Bush to wear a Saints jersey with the No. 5. Previously only receivers have been able to get away with wearing a jersey number outside NFL Rule 5, Section 1, Article 4 because receivers are only allotted 80-89; and when those numbers are all taken, then the…
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas running back Ramonce Taylor, who scored a touchdown in the Longhorns’ Rose Bowl win over Southern California, was arrested early Sunday by Bell County sheriff’s deputies who said they found marijuana in a backpack in his car. According to a news release from Sheriff Dan Smith, deputies also found a live…
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Tragic news this morning — Trojan starting point guard Ryan Francis was killed late last night in a shooting in Louisiana. According to Tim Tessalone, USC’s director of sports information, the 19-year-old Francis was killed about 3:30 a.m. in Baton Rouge, where he was visiting his mother. No additional details are currently available. Our utmost…
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