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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...
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...
USC's greatest sports streak has nothing to do with football
In one week, the 2024 Summer Olympics begin in Paris. USC will send many athletes to France in search of gold medals and athletic glory. USC is a football school, but USC is also an Olympic powerhouse. The greatest sports streak at USC could be the football team’s 34-game winning streak from the middle of the 2003 season up to the 2006 Rose Bowl against Texas. It could also be the run of five straight College World Series championships from 1970 through 1974. Yet, there’s another USC sports streak which currently sits at 112 years and is likely to last for a long time to come.
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,...
Former Alabama QB, current ESPN football analyst believes in USC
Former Alabama quarterback and national champion Greg McElroy said this week on the “Always College Football” podcast that USC’s month of October will be the most important in the Trojans’ upcoming college football season. McElroy broke down USC’s schedule this fall during a recent episode of...
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 ...
Morning Buzz: USC Picked Sixth In Big Ten
SC being behind all those teams sounds about right, being realistic, which I am not. We don’t play Iowa, Oregon or Ohio State. Scott, why do you keep running that picture of the ‘3 Plain Men’?. Like. It is a reasonable starting point, Iowa beats up on...
Paul Finebaum: USC Hiring Deion Sanders Would Be ‘One of the Great Combinations in History’
Last week, during SEC Media Days, Paul Finebaum made headlines by calling out USC head coach Lincoln Riley for what he called “one of the worst coaching jobs [he’d] ever seen.”. “I think he has an enormous amount to prove because, quite frankly, I think he’s been a...
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.
1987 USC football win over UCLA to be featured on Big Ten Network
USC moving into the Big Ten means that classic USC football games will air on Big Ten Network. It also means that great USC football moments will become the subjects of Big Ten Network documentaries. BTN’s first big USC item: the Trojans’ 1987 football win over No. 5 UCLA, which catapulted the Men of Troy to the 1988 Rose Bowl. We don’t have a precise air date, but it will be part of BTN’s initial effort to include more USC content on its airwaves.
Game of the Year 2024: Long Beach Poly vs. Millikan Football
The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly is sponsored by Bryson Financial. The562’s coverage of Millikan athletics in the 2023-24 school year is sponsored by Curtis Boyer. The562’s coverage of football in 2023-24 is sponsored in part by the MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center Foundation and Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital Foundation.
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.
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