Because true fans support their team even on the really, really bad days: Immediately after the Stanford loss in ’07, I wore my USC sweatshirt out, and took the expected abuse. Today — an even worse day, though that didn’t seem possible then — I’m flying our USC flag. Because whatever the football and basketball programs did wrong, and whatever… Read more »
FriendFeed: ESPN: “The USC football program will receive a two-year postseason ban, a reduction in scholarships and a forfeiture of wins from at least the 2004 season when the NCAA releases it sanctions on Thursday.”
ESPN’s Pac-10 blogger, Ted Miller, reports that Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott is attempting to shoot down yesterday’s report that an en masse membership offer to the entire Big 12 South, minus the fat kid (Baylor), plus the cool hippie (Colorado), is imminent: Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott released a statement on the matter to The Sporting News: “We are aware of… Read more »
If this report is correct — and the sourcing sounds solid — we may soon be looking at a Pac-16 instead of a Pac-10: According to “multiple sources close to the situation,” the Pac-10 plans to offer conference membership to six Big 12 teams at its conference meeting in San Francisco, forming a 16-team behemoth that spans the entire Western… Read more »
So, I was taking some pictures this evening of USC national championship paraphernalia around the house, preparing for a future blog post in the unhappy eventuality that, sometime soon, some of said paraphernalia may refer to events that, according to the NCAA, never happened. In the course of this, I took the following picture of an item that refers to… Read more »
It’s been almost four full months since my series on Brendan’s Defining Days of the Decade — of the previous decade, that is — came to a screeching halt. We’re now almost a third of a year into the 2010s, which means 3.2% of this decade is already over! And yet I’ve still got four “Defining Days” posts to go…. Read more »
Break out the brooms, baby! In the words of one tweeter, “The football monopoly in LA ain’t over, and the basketball monopoly is alive and well too! Fight On!” Hahaha. If only I’d made a bet with Tran this year! (And if only there was some potential for a postseason payoff for the Trojans!)
Did I miss anything while I was out at the movies? Heh. Actually, I was in the loop, thanks to a barrage of text messages from friends near and far. It started while I was waiting in line for popcorn, with a trio of text messages at 6:34 PM from a Notre Dame classmate and a Denver co-worker, all telling… Read more »
Tennessee head coach and former USC assistant Lane Kiffin is going to be the next head coach at the University of Southern California after only one season at the helm of the Volunteers. His father, Monte Kiffin, will be joining him as the Defensive Coordinator. Also returning with him is Ed Orgeron. Norm Chow is rumored to be a possibility… Read more »
[Bumped to top of page — again! — and new content added; see below. -ed.] When something bad happens to Michigan football, MGoBlog posts photos of kittens. For Pete Carroll’s resignation from USC and impending introduction confirmed hiring as coach of the Seahawks, I think another type of animal would be more appropriate: Photo attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/anita__greg/ / CC BY-NC 2.0… Read more »