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McKay, quarterback Haden’s favorite receiver when they played for the Trojans in the 1970s, now is new athletic director Haden’s point man overseeing a troubled football program. The dynamic hasn’t changed much, and their close friendship has only grown stronger.J.K. McKay says he is not George Orwell, this is not 1984, and he is not…
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Making the morning rounds. • Unhappy trails. To no one’s surprise, Damon Evans appears to be officially out as Georgia athletic director following his tear-filled, panty-wielding DUI arrest with a younger woman in the passenger seat last Wednesday, minutes before the start of a new, $550,000-per-year contract. Evans reportedly met with university lawyers over the…
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Junior-college defensive end Marquis Jackson, who had USC on his short list in February but never signed, told a Houston television station that he has signed with Texas Southern. Jackson, the twin brother of Trojans defensive end Malik Jackson, said USC’s issues with the NCAA “had no influence” on his decision. More likely, academics were…
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There’s still much to be hashed out over the nuts and bolts of the new 10-team Big 12, beginning with the name. (Unlike, say, the 100-year-old cachet of the Big Ten, there’s nothing particularly hallowed about "Big 12," and, well, "Big Ten" is already taken. I prefer the "Diet 12," or "Big 12 Jr," or…
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Conferences Consider Expansion, Not Tradition – Pete Thamel This is an interesting piece by Thamel. For years the Pac-10 and Big 10 were chastised for not getting on board with the BCS, conference championships and keeping the Rose Bowl Tradition etc. With Larry Scott’s new vision and energy, this will shake some things up…tradition will get…
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The SEC has produced four straight BCS champs. For that reason alone, it’s still top dog. But can a deep Pac-10 become the king of conferences? Stewart Mandel discusses in the ‘Bag.
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The Big Ten, defying the hyperbole of the weekend, obstinately refused to feed the beast re: conference expansion Wednesday during the annual meeting of all 11 BCS conference commissioners in Arizona — the topic wasn’t on the formal agenda, and the official timetable hasn’t changed. But that didn’t mean the BCS itself couldn’t take an…
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The Big Ten and Pac-10 both want to expand — the Big Ten is beginning to sound very, very certain about it — and when they do, certainly you have been made aware by now that Things Will Never Be the Same. If you’ve followed the sport for the last two decades, of course, you’re…
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Even though USC and the NCAA released precious little information about their meeting in Tempe, Ariz. — to the extent that “Less Than Zero” replaced “A Few Good Men” as the du jour movie analogy – the three-day affair still provided much to digest. (And from the sound of things, it resulted in more than…
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USC is in front of the NCAA Infractions Committee in Tempe, Ariz., today and the next two days, a reckoning four years in the making since of star running back Reggie Bush’s lucrative farewell season hit the news in 2006. Fans were impatient about the NCAA’s response in 2007. In four to six weeks, finally,…
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