Trojans have taken control. A couple of nice drives, an interception returned for touchdown by Rey Maualuga, and it’s 21-3. Could have been more, by the Trojans and Mark Sanchez tried to force a play at the end of the half and threw an interception. That would have been three points. The most impressive players […]

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Here’s something you don’t see every year. Somebody physically beating up the USC defense and driving the length of the field on it. Well, almost the length of the field. Just pounding it, mostly. That’s what Ohio State just did, however, going 68 yards in 17 plays and 8 minutes, 45 seconds to take a […]

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Innocent until proven guilty, apparently, is how USC and coach Pete Carroll approach the Shareece Wright situation. Wright is the junior from Colton who has been charged with felony “resisting a police officer” in connection with a party in Colton last weekend. Wright, however, was the starting right cornerback for USC in its game with […]

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Bad day for the Pac-10 Conference. BYU 59, UCLA 0 Maryland 35, No. 23 Cal 27 TCU 31, Stanford14. That’s most of the entire second-tier (after USC) of the Pac-10 going down to (perhaps) one decent team (BYU) and two middling programs (Maryland, TCU). Washington will be thrashed by Oklahoma later today. Then, on Friday, […]

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If you’re going to lose more than you win. If you’re not really very good. If you’re not going to get to a bowl. May as well do it the way the Bruins did. UCLA is being destroyed by BYU, in Provo, in a game more than a little reminiscent of last year’s 44-6, Week […]

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I’m going to guess USC football fans were stunned, the first time they saw one of those Dos Equis commercials. They get to the end of the thing and the voice-over guy announces, “He is the most interesting man in the world” … And Pete Carroll is not in the picture. (It’s actor Jonathan Goldsmith, […]

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Remember when Sarah Hammer of Temecula and three other U.S. track cyclists got off the plane in Beijing last month wearing protective masks? And do you remember how they were trashed by their own Olympic Committee? Which released an abject “apology” under their names? Now the USOC is going to apologize to the cyclists, conceding […]

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Maybe I have too much time, if I can look up this stuff. Some of it general interest. Some of it is fantasy-oriented. So those of you who hate the idea of hearing about someone’s fantasy team, think of it as stat-musings. For instance, Bengie Molina, former Angels catcher, now with the Giants? The big […]

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Remember this? The Seasons in The Sun series … in which I’m trying to write about one former sports co-worker for the 33 years (or parts of years) I spent at the San Bernardino Sun? By no means do all the interesting folks get in. There were too many. Especially during the periods when the […]

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Two of the more deflating experiences of my journalism career were the fortnights I spent covering Wimbledon, in 1985 and 1986. Not because of the tennis. Not because covering the event overwhelmed me. But because of what I was reading in the English newspapers.

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