In an effort to get ready for the season, here is Mark Schlabach’s breakdown of the best games each week—along with a list of teams that should be on upset alert. The Tennessee/Cal game on September 1 should go a long way toward shutting Les Miles up, while, in Week 2, he puts Texas on [...]
Posted in BCS, Big 12, Big Eleven, Cal, LSU, SEC, Tennessee, Texas, The Biz, USC | No Comments »I think this is the only pre- (or post-) season list that USC hasn’t made. (Well, this, and the “best new rivalries” list.)
Posted in The Biz, USC | No Comments »Our friends at the worldwide leader have decided to mix things up again with their announcer teams for our favorite sport—College Football. Bob Davie is no longer on Saturday Night, leaving Herbie to battle Musburger for airtime. Also, as much as I like Holly Rowe as a journalist, why on earth is she going to [...]
Posted in The Biz | No Comments »Here are the college football attendance figures for this past season. Not much to be surprised about in the top three—Michigan, Penn State, Tennessee—but it is interesting to note that one Pac-10 school happened to outdraw the national champs …
Posted in Florida, Michigan, Penn State, Tennessee, The Biz, USC | 1 Comment »Many USC football players choose to spend their summer in the scenic University Park neighborhood instead of the beach, or the mountains, or back home in whatever state they were named Mr. Football in high school. Here’s one of the reasons why: you never know when a super-famous SAG member and Super Bowl MVP like [...]
Posted in The Bigs, The Biz, USC | 1 Comment »In another Yahoo! Sports investigative report, they have determined that the replay booth stole the Rose Bowl game from USC.* (By the way, Texas—we’ll be right over to get that Crystal football.) This is reason #39 why full time officials and all conferences using the same equipment would make sense. However, since it’s college football—the [...]
Posted in BCS, Texas, The Biz, USC | No Comments »Jumping into the big time with college football broadcasting, Fox has started to tell America who will be announcing the games. On January 1 the A-team of Thom Brennaman, Barry Alvarez and Charles Davis (who is just awful on the TBS games will call the Fiesta Bowl and the BcS title game. Matt Vasgersian, Terry [...]
Posted in BCS, The Biz | No Comments »ESPNU’s Brian Kinchen has been pulled from braodcasting this weekend after he made inappropriate comments using the word “gay”.
Posted in The Biz | No Comments »Shawn Walters—once a promising RB at SC—lost it all during the team’s 1995 Rose Bowl season because he took payments from an agent. Shawn got caught while he was playing at SC, while Reggie Bush was already cashing Subway checks.
Posted in The Biz, USC | No Comments »With no agreement with the NFL in sight and the city no longer wanting to control the day-to-day operations of the Coliseum, they are considering striking a deal with USC that would give the university control.
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