latimes.com - 7/31/2009
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USC football was anointed and exalted and ceremoniously slobbered on Thursday at another Pacific 10 Conference media day during which the Trojan Horses were picked to win the league in a Secretariat-type runaway. It marked the seventh (yawn) consecutive media day USC has been christened ...
rumorsandrants.com - 8/5/2009
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rumorsandrants.com —
I don’t mean to be a dick to
Cal. They’re just harmless hippies trying to make their...
way in the Super Max Penitentiary that is college football. And since they’re a mediocre program that’s been trying to make the “big step” into one of the big prison ...
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The Answer Is No
latimes.com - 7/30/2009
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latimes.com —
USC football Coach Pete Carroll employed a former
NFL tactician last season to help with the team's...
punting and kicking game, an arrangement that may have violated NCAA rules that prohibit consultants from coaching, The Times has learned. Carroll's ...
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More NCAA trouble for USC football? - Los Angeles Times
ampsportsduo.blogspot.com - 7/31/2009
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ampsportsduo.blogspot.com —
In an amazing shocker, Taylor Mays and company
are projected to win the Pac Ten for 8th...
consecutive year. You might say they could be in trouble for the latest alleged NCAA violations but who are we kidding, the Trojan army has proved impervious to NCAA sanctions. Pete Carroll, the Priam of ...
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FYI: USC Picked To Win Pac Ten
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The Wiz of Odds —
... preceding last year's Hawaii Bowl. Audio of slur and apology. David Wharton, Los Angeles Times: UCLA coaches Rick Neuheisel and Ben Howland and athletic director Dan Guerrero have agreed to take pay cuts of up to 10%.
The three were not required to take the cuts, but agreed to do so after
state employees were ordered to take cuts to help ease California's
budget crisis. Chris Dufresne, Los Angeles Times: USC can't win the Pacific 10 every year, can it?
Lonnie White, Versus: Notes from ...
Pac-10 Media Day Notes
Conquest Chronicles —
... years in a row (we are SO smart!).
I can see why it is kind of hard to pick against SC...no one has has been as dominant as they have been. Every time time USC loses a bunch of players to the NFL they simply reload and plug another unit in. The results are usually pretty positive.Yes, they have still have still had some bonehead losses that have kept them out of the MNC but a lot of that also has to do with the system currently in place.
Picking USC to win the Pac-10 is almost automatic even though some see the "gap" ...
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2009 CBF Preview: USC Trojans
scoresreport.com 8/29/2009 —
Preseason Ranking: No. 4 in AP Top 25; No. 4 in USA Today Poll.
Key Returning Players: Aaron Corp (QB); Mitch Mustain (QB); Stafon Johnson (RB); Joe McKnight (RB); C.J. Gable (RB); Damian Williams (WR); Charles Brown; Anthony McCoy (TE); (OT); Butch Lewis (OT); Jeff Byers (G); Alex ...
