Since my tweets aren’t updating the right-hand column right now, due to server issues, I’m going to set up an all-day live-tweeting window here. It’s going to be a busy day of college basketball and football: Utah State-Georgetown is at 10:00 AM MDT; the Butler-Duke rematch is at 1:15 PM MDT; Oregon-Oregon State and Auburn-South Carolina start at 1:30 and… Read more »
So… that just happened. My first USC loss to ND since I became an “Irish Trojan.” Congrats to my long-suffering Irish-fan friends on finally beating USC. Really. And… sigh. Beat. The Bruins. P.S. Amen to this: Ronald Johnson is as good a man as you will ever want to meet. He dropped a ball on the final USC drive that… Read more »
Via The Ripsit Blog, in honor of Notre Dame Week…
Nothing is official yet, but my day of rejoicing may be near: Pac-10 athletic directors weren’t able to arrive at a consensus during two days of meetings last week in San Francisco, but a compromise is in the works, according to multiple sources. The conference would like to have a north-south split of two six-team divisions, instead of a “zipper… Read more »
I had never seen this before, but stumbled on it today via YouTube. It’s USC at Oregon, January 7th, 1999, and it’s pretty freakin’ sweet. The action starts at around the 1-minute mark of the clip. Here’s a contemporaneous news article about the game. And here’s a 2008 interview with the Trojan hero that night, Adam Spanich.
Twitter: RT @USCFootballNews: “The Trojan Family honors and respects the USC sporting careers of those persons whose actions did not compromise their athletic program”
Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News has a new blog post with updates on the Pac-10/Pac-12 realignment and other conference issues. Particularly interesting are the following: The “zipper” plan is gaining traction thanks to a number of factors, including: – The Northwest schools’ reluctance to give up games in the L.A. area – The California schools’ desire to… Read more »
Money quotes from former USC reserve fullback D.J. Shoemate, who just transferred to UConn, on his decision: Why did you transfer from USC and how hard was that decision? I saw a better opportunity for myself to play running back. I’m very confident in my abilities. I just really wanted to follow my dream. It was the hardest decision of… Read more »
This is not unexpected, but it’s now been confirmed: USC will keep its 2004 Associated Press national championship, regardless of whether the BCS requires the Trojans to forfeit the ’04 BCS title — which they probably will. Thus, the Trojans will have two consecutive AP-only titles, and LSU fans will get to gleefully mock the “Zero-Pete” dynasty. (And we will… Read more »
We had a gorgeous double-rainbow over our neighborhood this evening: It’d be overkill to get all “small and passing thing” about this: NCAA scholarship restrictions and bowl bans are not equivalent to the great Shadow of evil, beyond whose reach is much “light and high beauty” like this rainbow. Even so, it was a refreshing sight at the end of… Read more »
