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(Photo by StudioSchulz.com) If you like kick-ass beer, then you like Stone Brewing. The Escondido Calif.-based brewery has a rabid following in the craft beer world and direct ties to USC. Greg Koch, class of 1987, co-founded Stone in 1995 and has helped build it into a juggernaut. It’s the largest craft brewery in the…
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Yes, there are lots of USC teams in our list of the “best Pac-10 teams of the decade.” Not sure how you get around that. From 2002 to 2008, the Trojans finished ranked in the nation’s top four. During that span, no other conference team topped the Trojans in the national rankings. One team not…
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Here’s a chart comparing Pete Carroll and Lane Kiffin’s first year as a college head coach. Note that I do not endorse any suggestion that this means USC will win seven straight Pac-10 titles under Kiffin. OVERALL RECORD: Carroll 6-6; Kiffin 7-6. CONFERENCE: Carroll 5-3 Pac-10, 5th Place; Kiffin 4-4 SEC-East, 2nd Place. NON-CONFERENCE: Carroll…
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The Pac-10 decade started with parity and a rising Northwest. It ended that way, too. In the middle, it was all about the Trojans, with USC winning a pair of national titles — and playing for a third — and at least sharing seven consecutive conference championships. The Pac-10 decade featured a run of remarkable…
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Ric Francis – ASSOCIATED PRESS View full size photo » Ed. Note – Joey and I collaborated this piece together…P Norm Chow is not going to be the USC offensive coordinator next season. Relax, deal with it, and let’s move on. It’s time to start focusing on rounding out the rest of the staff instead…
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Two lines of negative thinking hang over the USC football program at present, and it’s possible neither is true. No. 1: The NCAA is about to hammer the football program for a lack of institutional control. No. 2: Potential severe NCAA sanctions make becoming USC’s next head football coach far less appealing. Both may be true. But it’s…
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So pretty much every key victory in the Crimson Tide’s undefeated run through the 2009 season was followed by an opposing fanbase crying foul and insisting that their team really deserved to win. Sadly though, victories are still awarded to the team with the most points on the scoreboard when time expires. But we here…
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When you're in a tizzy six weeks from now over some snot-nosed 17-year-old linebacker who snubbed Hometown U. for the rival school, do us all a favor and get professional help. The snake oil salesmen known as recruitniks are just around the corner, ready to spread their b.s. in coming weeks. Please, don't take the…
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Why do teams keep coming back to bowl games despite regularly losing money on the trips? Much of it has to do with image, but as Brent Schrotenboer of the San Diego Union-Tribune writes, it also has to do with the way the system works. As this site noted last week, once a team accepts…
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Last Saturday’s Heisman show on ESPN was the network’s highest-rated ever. ESPN’s Heisman Trophy telecast (Saturday, Dec. 12, at 8 p.m. ET) averaged a 4.1 rating, 4,045,000 households and 5,990,000 viewers, marking increases of 32% (vs. 3.1), 32% (vs. 3,058,000) and 44% (vs. 4,151,000), respectively, over last year. The home designated market areas (DMA) of…
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