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All it takes is a cool $2.95 million, or perhaps a little less should you be a steely-eyed negotiator, and the Laguna Beach home of USC legend and Heisman Trophy winner Carson Palmer can be yours. I’m talking about four bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, a “panoramic hilltop view of the Pacific,” an ocean-view office, plus […]

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UPDATE: The T-Wolves have Love on the front page of their website, so there’s no “reportedly” about this one, I don’t think.
This is why they say not to get too deep into post draft analysis until the dust settles.
The Memphis Grizzlies and Minnesota Timberwolves have reportedly agreed to a blockbuster deal- or as blockbuster a […]

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So it looks like our boy O.J. took a couple of bucks …allegedly. Around 30K according to Louis Johnson’s interview with ESPN. In the week since the allegations surfaced, the NCAA has opened up an investigation regarding Mayo, and Johnson was contacted about his comments made to the “four letter.” Unlike some, I will not […]

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When West Virginia high schooler O.J. Mayo enrolled at USC last summer, we knew two things: He was the biggest “get” in the program’s basketball history and was only sticking around for one year. While his presence and NBA-ready talent brought immediate attention to the city’s other hoops program, he also brought trouble with him.
Now, […]

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The next shoe potentially drops for USC and OJ Mayo (more for the former, really) as the NCAA will officially launch an investigation into allegations of cash, gifts and other general no-no’s received as an amateur. We’ll see what dirt, if any, gets revealed with this digging expedition.

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Reggie-Gate and Mayo-Gate has led to unpleasant and tenuous recent days for Trojan alums like myself, but at least the image of football games taking place anywhere but the Coliseum (or worse, alternating with UCLA at the Rose Bowl) is no longer reason to grimace. The University of Southern California and the […]

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Famous (potentially) last words, courtesy of me, on April 11 when OJ Mayo officially turned pro:
In the end, like most things, the reality of OJ was somewhere in between the extremes of those who figured his tenure would lead to the SMUing of USC’s hoops program and those who, to paraphrase Mel Gibson in Braveheart, […]

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We always support efforts to revive cool traditions in local sports (or have for our glorious six months or so of existence).  With that in mind, we’d like to throw our support behind a petition started by 710 ESPN.com’s Dave Dameshek and circulated by LA Times.com USC/UCLA blogger Adam Rose to get the Trojans and […]

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Not that there was really any question about Pete Carroll’s program, of course, but just to prove the point the Trojans sent seven players to the pro ranks on day one of the NFL Draft.  They are as follows:
First Round
Sedrick Ellis, DT (7)- New Orleans
Keith Rivers, OLB (9)- Cincinnati
Sam Baker, OT (21)- Atlanta
Lawrence Jackson, DE (28)- Seattle   

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I’m not an NFL Draft guy, at least in terms of sitting down on a Saturday surrounded by chips, beer, and wings, and mainlining hours and hours of Mel Kiper Jr. (at left). Even with this season’s revamped draft rules, where the time between picks shrinks from 15 minutes to 10, having […]

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