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Yahoo! Reporters Jason Cole and Charles Robinson decline our request for an interview
Yahoo! Reporters Jason Cole and Charles Robinson decline our request for an interview
E ditors Note: I could not have done this on my own. I want to thank Tyler Bleszinski Editor-in-Chief at SB Nation for all of his help and guidance in trying to secure this interview and for his patience and time in working with me to put this all together. The many phone calls and emails back ...
Tim Floyd Wants to Know Why Everyone is Jumping Off the Ship He’s Crashing in the Rocks
Tim Floyd Wants to Know Why Everyone is Jumping Off the Ship He’s Crashing in the Rocks
stylepointsblog.com — Making Bob Knight Look Like John Wooden The University of Southern California’s Men’s Basketball Team is losing... its members faster than the Republican Party. This week, Marcus Johnson (who?) declared he was going pro, bringing the number of Trojans from last year’s team ... (more) Tim Floyd Wants to Know Why Everyone is Jumping Off the ...
Tim Floyd is now losing players to Islamabad
Tim Floyd is now losing players to Islamabad
rivals.yahoo.com — USC's basketball team has lost its fourth early-entrant to the NBA draft and coach Tim Floyd isn't... happy about it. After reserve forward Marcus Johnson joined DeMar DeRozan, Daniel Hackett and Taj Gibson as Trojans who decided to forego years of ... (more) Tim Floyd is now losing players to Islamabad
Recruiting: Star system has flaws, coach says
Recruiting: Star system has flaws, coach says
thestate.com — USC DEFENSIVE LINE coach Brad Lawing has recruited hundreds of players over his more than 20 years... as a college coach. He has signed players rated highly by the recruiting analysts and players whom the analysts ignored. In Lawing’s opinion, the ... (more) Recruiting: Star system has flaws, coach says
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The Wiz of Odds — ... Conquest Chronicles: Yahoo! Sports reporters Jason Cole and Charles Robinson, who have been chronicling the NCAA's investigation of USC, refuse a request for an interview. ...

Talking points: who's got the Munchies?
Rocky Top Talk — ... Conquest Chronicles takes Yahoo! reporters Jason Cole and Charles Robinson to task for their reporting on the alleged corruption in USC's basketball program and for refusing to answer his respectful questions. This is a bit long, but it's well worth the read. Well done, Paragon SC. ...

Morning Quack Fix: Track Edition
Addicted To Quack — ... , and calls out from his rocking chair, "Why does justice never happen to USC, those durn cheating whippersnappers?" I'm sorry, but I could seriously care less about all of this. The NCAA is an entirely worthless institution, so USC is smart to not do any talking, especially considering there is little actual evidence against them, besides the word of one guy, at least, that's what Paragon claims. ...

Intelligently, SBN Blog Conquest Chronicles Calls Out Financial Partner Yahoo! Sports
California Golden Blogs — ... Into that void stepped one man.  And a whole lot of frustratingly nice USC fans.  And this man and his cadre of painfully enjoyable friends decided to do the one thing that we all were thinking, but in no way saying:  "Could Yahoo! be jumping the gun here?" ...

The Iron Bowl is not that kind of extreme (but it's close)
Dr. Saturday — ... memes about the fall start to harden into conventional wisdom and the taunting lines are clearly drawn, seems like a good time to remind readers that the things you feel strongly about make you crazy. They make you antisocial, at least. In football terms, most of the message boards, blogs and comment threads you frequent are doubtlessly turning you into one of those people who calls into late-night, tinfoil-hat radio shows, breathlessly railing again one-world government, the media conspiracy against USC, the ...

USC, Reggie Theus falling in love even as we speak
The Dagger — ... , whose unabashed USC homerism had been a real highlight this offseason) this notion was greeted with incredulity. Why on Earth would Dixon leave a program he's turned into a national power to become the head coach at a school that might be NCAA-crippled for years to come? Even if USC had no hint of disaster surrounding it, Pittsburgh's a better program anyway. ...

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