Fresh Droppings

Athletic intelligence is separate from classroom intelligence, and some players have both. The dumb jock isn’t going to get very far.Athletic intelligence is separate from classroom intelligence, and some players have both. The dumb jock isn’t going to get very far. [L.A. Times]

Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: he can save Oregon’s ass, or his own, but probably not both. More » [Deadspin]

Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: the incoming coach and the outgoing QB, just ships passing in the night. More » [Deadspin]

Channing Crowder talks in hypotheticals. “Hypothetically,” he says, he doesn’t have any more of his old Florida jerseys. Some local businessmen, he says, really liked his play. “Hypothetically.” More » [Deadspin]

The Lakers, natch, are No. 1 in Dufresne’s rankings, followed by the Angels, Dodgers and USC football. But the big question is, where do Mater Dei High and the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes rank?Whose town is it anyway? [L.A. Times]

Lonnie White, who played for the Trojans from 1982-86 and covered sports for the Los Angeles Times for 20 years after that, says he got $14,000 while at USC, most of it coming from the sale of season tickets.Lonnie White, who played for the Trojans from 1982-86 and covered sports for the Los Angeles Times […]

Fallout from football and basketball violations has included stiff NCAA sanctions, a diminished product on field and court, and revenue losses that are hard to calculate but are in the tens of millions in football alone.Fallout from football and basketball violations has included stiff NCAA sanctions, a diminished product on field and court, and revenue […]

I’m a West Virginia native, and I have been to a great many bars in that state, so I know whereof I speak when I say that Dana Holgorsen, the new, occasionally sober head coach of the Mountaineers, has excellent taste. As you might remember, Holgorsen has been involved in several “alcohol-related incidents” over the […]

Deshon Marman, a 20-year-old on the University of New Mexico football team, was arrested at San Francisco Airport yesterday after he refused to pull up his pants on an airplane: More » [Deadspin]

The physical wide receiver puts on a show whenever he’s on the football field. He will need to be good for the Colts, who will be playing a very difficult nonleague schedule.If you want to know what a high school All-American wide receiver looks like, go watch Darreus Rogers of Carson High. [L.A. Times]

The USC football coach faces allegations that stem from his short tenure in Knoxville but might lead to penalties that could affect the Trojans.The USC football coach faces allegations that stem from his short tenure in Knoxville but might lead to penalties that could affect the Trojans. [L.A. Times]

Now that USC has vacated its 2004 national championship because Reggie Bush couldn’t steer clear of the side money, attention has shifted to the venue where the Trojans have had such success in recent years. As it turns out, the L.A. Coliseum has been run more or less like a garbage removal service in Westchester. […]