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Beavers upset top-ranked Trojans
Beavers upset top-ranked Trojans
Freshman Jacquizz Rodgers ran for 186 yards and two touchdowns and Oregon State built an early lead and held on for a 27-21 upset victory over top-ranked Southern California on Thursday night. The Beavers (2-2, 1-1 Pacific-10) also upset USC at Reser Stadium in 2006. This time, Oregon State ...
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Disaster In Corvallis! USC Loses to Oregon State, 27-21
SportsHubLA — ... them.  The Beavers bum rushed SC early, building up a 21 point lead at the half behind freshman running back Jacquizz Rodgers, who not only proved himself to be the finest player in America named Jacquizz, but an absolute terror for a supposedly impenetrable defense, racking up 117 yards and a TD over the first 30 minutes of play. USC couldn’t tackle him.  21-0 Oregon State at halftime.  The Trojans cut the lead to 21-14 near the end of the fourth… but that’s as close as they’d get.  Final score, 27-21. In our ...

National Exposure, baby
Building The Dam — Has it set in yet? Can you believe it was OREGON STATE that pulled this off? Some game highlights courtesy of ESPN:  

The Game Day Skate for Friday, September 26
Four Habs Fans — Bullet points for what you missed while dreaming of beating the number one team in the nation... Let's count the walking wounded, shall we? Kovy, Captain K, Higgins, Gang Bang Lang, Tangy, Gui!, Hamrlik, Laracque, Bégin, and of course the un-dead Mathieu Carle. Yeesh. The only good news is that you can add Breezer to the list; As Limerick Dude mentioned in the comments yesterday, Habs sign some half-Czech, half-Swiss goalie we've never heard of. A 3.77 and .877 in the Q last year. Okaaaaayyy...Habs hit the Bell Centre ice tonight ...

Morning Rounds, September 26th
The Sports Complex — ... “The season’s three games now instead of 162. Every game is a playoff game.” - Former Phillie Dale Sveum Three lines on their world: Oregon State takes down #1 ranked USC The Dodgers made if official out West And the Minnesota Twins might just hang on in the Central Three lines on ours: The Mets walked off for a big win over the Cubs’ b-team The Brewers walked ...

Mehdenfreude
ShysterBall — That's a word I just made up -- inspired by this -- which means "taking joy in the misfortunes of others while simultaneously acknowledging that their misfortune actually makes your own rooting interest look even worse by comparison." ...

Oh how the mighty fall….
WVMountaineerSports.com — ... Sometimes a team just has your number. Oregon State has USC’s number, bigtime. USC has lost three of its last four games in Corvallis. ...

Oregon State Shocks #1 USC
Football Outsiders — 26 Sep 2008 Oregon State Shocks #1 USC If you watched Oregon State's incredible upset of USC last night, you know you saw something special. If you didn't, I give you one word to ponder: "Quizz". Posted by: Doug Farrar on 26 Sep 2008 ...

THE BEAVERS ARE #1
With Leather - Sports news and gossip, panda sex, and the occasional Toonces the driving cat Photoshop — ... After exposing Ohio State as a creampuff, USC was looking forward to cruising through its creampuffier conference schedule to the national championship game.  Alas, too many creampuffs can lead to choking: in a delightful, nationally televised affair, the #1 Trojans fell to Oregon State in Corvallis, 27-21.  It’s the first time a highly ranked USC has been upset by the Beavers since… uh, 2006.  Wow, USC sucks. ...

Let’s All Just Shut Up, Okay?
The Arena — ... USC succumbed to the Curse of Corvallis last night, losing at Oregon State 27-21 for their third time in the past four road trips to what is becoming Pete Carroll’s Beaver Damn. This time, it was a pathetic first half effort that did the Trojans in, as Jacquizz “Quizz” Rodgers took the lead in both the College Football Name of the Year Tournament and the Best Rodgers Brother at Oregon State Award, gashing USC’s dreadnaught defense time and again for 186 yards and a pair of touchdowns. The performance was the best one on the ground against the Trojans ...

Oh how the mighty fall! Part 2
WVMountaineerSports.com — ... It all started with USC getting dumped on by Oregan State 21-27. I thought that would be the only upset this weekend and I was way wrong. Top ranked teams were dropping like flies yesterday. ...

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