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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 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 ...
Lake Perris Loses Olympic Venues as LA28 Consolidates to be LA Centric
PERRIS – In its efforts to consolidate event venues into a tighter geographic profile, LA28, the organizing committee for the 2028 LA Olympics has pulled water events from Lake Perris. Rowing and canoe sprinting was previously set to be held at Lake Perris, but officials relocated the event to...
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,...
Student Section of the Year 2024: Long Beach State Sand Pit
The562’s coverage of Long Beach State athletics for the 2023-24 season is sponsored by Marilyn Bohl. There was a time when the Monson Maniacs filled the far side of Walter Pyramid to support their men’s basketball team, but now the best student section in the city and at Long Beach State has been for national powerhouse men’s volleyball.
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.
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...
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.
USC continues to search for difference-making pass rushers
Earlier this month, USC offered Zach Groves, a 6-foot-4, 215-pound, four-star edge rusher from Cross Plains (Tennessee), where he plays for East Robertson High School. Groves also holds offers from LSU, Tennessee, Vandy, Louisville, Kentucky, Indiana and Memphis. The Tennessee native is rated No. 132 in the nation overall, the No. 12 best edge rusher in the 2026 class, and No. 2 in the state of Tennessee. Groves recorded 72 tackles, 8 sacks, 2 interceptions and 8 forced fumbles in his sophomore season last year. There are no crystal ball projections at this time but Tennessee is a 53% favorite...
USC Recruit Kaitlyn Nguyen Clocks 2:30.46 200 BR on Opening Day of 2024 Fullerton Sectionals
LCM (50m) Results on MeetMobile, “2024 CA Fullerton CA/NV Speedo Sectionals”. Following the 4 Speedo Sectionals meets that took place around the country last week, there are 3 more going on this week, including one at the Janet Evans Swim Complex in Fullerton, CA. The first day of the Fullerton Sectionals featured the 100 free, 200 breast, 200 fly, women’s 1500 free and men’s 800 free.
Clutch Performance of the Year 2024: Jovani Ruff, Long Beach Poly & Ryann Bennett, St. Anthony
No one was surprised when local basketball stars Jovani Ruff and Ryann Bennett took over CIF postseason games and carried their teams to victory. That’s because they’d been doing it all year. It didn’t look like Bennett had brought her A-game when St. Anthony took on Moreno Valley...
Zachariah Branch discusses the past and present of USC football
USC football wide receiver and return man Zachariah Branch joins former NFL tight end Adam Breneman on the latest episode of Next Up. In this exclusive interview, Zachariah Branch reflects on his All-America season with USC last year and explains what USC fans can expect from Lincoln Riley’s offense in 2024 with new starting quarterback Miller Moss leading the way.
Federal Funding for L.A. Ahead Of 2028 Olympics
Secretary Pete Buttigieg is pledging to help Los Angeles prepare for the 2028 Olympics. He joined L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and other leaders at the Memorial Coliseum yesterday to celebrate federal funding for public transportation projects. The city is expecting to receive about 900-million dollars in federal help for now....
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.
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