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The Wiz is back with the most classless acts of the 2009 season. What is a classless act, you ask? It's any attempt to degrade an opponent, player or the game. It's the stuff that isn't in the summary but often gets mentioned years later after somebody extracts retribution. As they say, what goes around comes around. At the...
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A year ago this draft was considered to be a great QB class, especially if Mark Sanchez stayed for his senior year. Now it looks like he had little to worry about. From ESPN's Mel Kiper: ``The quarterback class is not very good in terms of depth or lack of ``I think teams now resolve that if you're not...
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USC is in front of the NCAA Infractions Committee in Tempe, Ariz., today and the next two days, a reckoning four years in the making since of star running back Reggie Bush's lucrative farewell season hit the news in 2006. Fans were impatient about the NCAA's response in 2007. In four to six weeks, finally, we'll have our resolution...
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Among the many conspiracy theories and outlandish rumors making the rounds re: the NCAA's pending reaction (or lack thereof) against USC when the long-awaited Reggie Bush illegal benefits case finally goes before the Infractions Committee this weekend, none has been as persistent as the suggestion that the NCAA wouldn't dare drop the hammer on one of its most visible,...
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Pacific 10 Conference commissioner Larry Scott's announcement that the league is "very seriously" looking at expansion in the next 12 months has created a buzz in cyberspace, and for good reason. A raid of another conference would alter the playing field in college football for years to come. A look at some of the reaction:Dennis Dodd, CBS Sports.com: Expansion...
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By Mark Whicker, ocregister.com,
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There has been speculation about two new members of the Pac-10 for a long time now. I remember when they were supposed to be Texas and Texas A&M, when the old Southwest Conference was breaking up. New commissioner Larry Scott, a marketing guy who says “going forward” a lot, seems receptive to the idea of a [...]Pac-12 on the...
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The linebacker and offensive line position is thin. For the recruiting class of 2010, it is essential that coach Kiffin and staff try to replenish those two positions. Unfortunately, the linebacker class this year is not strong. It appears day by day that USC will not meet those standards of grabbing those linebackers to help out our depth in...
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Here's what Randy Taylor, a former recruiting coordinator at UCLA and currently a recruiting analyst thinks are the most interesting classes: ``Florida may have the best class ever based on the talent level of their committed players on paper; Washington who may be in the top 10 to 15 classes in the end; Stanford and BYU, who are going...
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Lots of extraordinary games to choose from, as well as many ways to ascribe greatness: the size of the stage, the competitiveness of the game and the overall strangeness. And we made the executive decision not to make this a list of USC upset losses -- other than the biggest one of those. 10. Oregon 56, Arizona State 55 (2 OT), 2000:...
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Yes, there are lots of USC teams in our list of the "best Pac-10 teams of the decade." Not sure how you get around that. From 2002 to 2008, the Trojans finished ranked in the nation's top four. During that span, no other conference team topped the Trojans in the national rankings. One team not listed, however, merits special mention:...
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The assignment: Rank the top-10 Pac-10 players of the decade. Gulp. The list of folks not on this list includes numerous consensus All-Americans, award winners and record-setting players. So feel free to disagree. And, yes, NFL success sometimes functioned as a tiebreaker, which is why Reggie Williams, Mike Williams, Rien Long, Dave Ball, J.J. Arrington, Mike Hass, Derek Hagan...
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The Pac-10 decade started with parity and a rising Northwest. It ended that way, too. In the middle, it was all about the Trojans, with USC winning a pair of national titles -- and playing for a third -- and at least sharing seven consecutive conference championships. The Pac-10 decade featured a run of remarkable stability at the top...
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