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USC Trojans Cheerleader Goes Viral With Swimsuit Photo
Few cheerleading units in college football, if any, are more recognizable than the USC Song Girls. The classic white uniform with the red and gold pom-poms are an iconic look. We'll be seeing them in the Big Ten this season, too. Ahead of the 2024 college football season, a veteran USC Trojans ...
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass will be part of Paris Olympic delegation, Biden announces
President Joe Biden announced Monday that Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass will be part of the presidential delegation to Paris to attend the opening ceremony for the 2024 Olympic Games.
How Los Angeles Saved The Olympic Games
Though it may be hard to believe today, the 1970s and 80s saw the future of the Olympic Games hanging by a thread. When Los Angeles hosted the Games in 1984, it transformed a troubled event into one of the most successful in Olympic history, setting a precedent for the many editions that followed over the next three decades. Here’s how Los Angeles turned the tide for the Olympics. In 1972, the Munich Olympics suffered a devastating blow when the Palestinian terrorist group Black September killed 11 Israeli athletes and a German police officer in the Munich Massacre. This tragic...
Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw donates 2,500 backpacks to students in need
Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw teamed up with the Dream Center on Saturday to help kids and families in need get ready for the back-to-school season.The pitcher, his organization Kershaw's Challenge and the L.A. Dodgers Foundation handed out 2,500 backpacks filled with school supplies, including paper, notebooks and binders. The kids and families were also given free clothes.Founded in 2011, Kershaw's Challenge is a faith-based organization that has raised over $23 million in the last 12 years for at-risk children and families worldwide, according to its website. The Dream Center provides resources to kids and families in need, such as those...
LA to get $139M to improve public transportation ahead of 2028 Olympic Games
LOS ANGELES — One week before the 2024 Olympic Games will open in Paris, the host city of the 2028 games announced it is receiving $139 million to improve public transportation. The Department of Transportation is providing the funds to Los Angeles to increase bus service, add multimodal transit...
Julian Lewis is an endless source of intrigue at USC
Carrollton High School (Georgia) quarterback Julian Lewis is a five-star recruit who has been committed to the USC Trojans for over a year now. However, the Max Preps Sophomore of the Year has been coveted by many suitors, including Colorado, Auburn, Indiana and Georgia. Despite his verbal commitment to USC,...
Morning Buzz: USC Picked Sixth In Big Ten
6 out of “10” schools is a loonnngg season. 6 out of 18 teams is right where we should be. SC being behind all those teams sounds about right, being realistic, which I am not. Liked by 1 person. We don’t play Iowa, Oregon or Ohio State.
ESPN Computer's Top 5 Teams Heading Into August
There's only one more month until the start of the 2024 college football regular season. The games begin at the end of August. Heading into the final month of the college football offseason, who are the teams to beat? ESPN's computer model, the Football Power Index, has ranked college football's ...
Nearly a year later, El Segundo’s Little League World Series run is still making an impact
After El Segundo gave up a four-run lead on a Curacao grand slam, it was 5-5 in the bottom of the sixth inning. It was still anyone's game. Except this game was on the biggest stage in amateur baseball: the Little League Baseball World Series championship. "No pressure, just get...
Potential LSU starting cornerback suspended, might not face USC on September 1
The USC Trojans face the LSU Tigers on Sept. 1 in Las Vegas, in a massive Week 1 college football showdown. One of the central tension points entering this game is that USC and LSU face tons of uncertainties on their rosters. USC has an unproven quarterback, Miller Moss, going against an unproven LSU secondary which struggled last year. Javien Toviano was part of that secondary. As a sophomore in 2024, Toviano was expected to contend for a starting role at LSU. Now, his playing status for the big game against USC is in jeopardy.
Big Ten primer — Rutgers’ greatest football moment
USC is joining the Big Ten and helping to create an 18-school superconference with the other West Coast schools leaving the Pac-12. The Trojans will participate in Big Ten media days next week in Indianapolis. The newness of their surroundings and the freshness of their situation will become apparent when they join a media extravaganza with Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, and other schools from the Midwest. As we get to know USC’s new Big Ten neighbors, let’s consider the greatest football moment in the history of Rutgers University. It’s an old memory, literally the oldest college football memory we have. College...
The road warrior: Lorenzo Powell’s drive to reach the top
Lorenzo Powell has a unique sparring regimen. On Mondays and Fridays, the lightweight spends 18 hours – 12 of them driving – devoted to boxing. Powell and his coach Marty Chima travel from Sacramento, California, to Los Angeles at 2am, reaching the boxing gym he will spar at early in the morning while training for four to six hours, and then return home.
Previewing USC's first season in Big Ten
The Big Ten will be even bigger this season. The league has expanded to 18 schools, with USC, UCLA, Washington, and Oregon as new additions. With the conference’s football media days starting Tuesday in Indianapolis, we caught up with Ryan Kartje, the USC beat reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Kartje, a Michigan native and Read more... The post The L.A. Times’ Ryan Kartje on USC’s inaugural Big Ten season appeared first on Awful Announcing.
ESPN: L.A. Coliseum among Top 25 college football stadiums
ESPN ranked the Top 25 college football stadiums on Sunday, USC's iconic L.A. Memorial Coliseum cracking the list. The Coliseum, established in 1923, checked in at No. 22, just head of Appalachian State's Kidd Brewer Stadium. One of the few sports venues designated as a National Historic Landmark, the Los...
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