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Wherever you have USC in your preseason college football rankings, bump them up a spot or two because where there is anger, there is good football. Anger feeds competitive fire. Anger breeds anger which breeds angry men hitting the opposition so hard they can't even be angry, so angry is the other team -- they've sucked all the anger out of the room, like someone hogging the entire anger blanket on an angry sleepover.
And nothing, repeat nothing, will make you more angry than having a horrific, CDC-grade case of jock itch to start the football season.
As much as 25% of the team has been affected by the apparent run of tinea cruris, kicker David Buehler estimated. The condition seems to have spread by way of new compression shorts, or tights, worn under their football pants.Oh, I smell championships here. At least I hope that's what that smell is.Tailback Joe McKnight and receiver Travon Patterson were sufficiently afflicted to spend Wednesday's practice on the sideline.
"It burns," Patterson said.
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So how far in the polls do they drop because of this?
by thejoyofsobe on Aug 14, 2008 1:56 PM EDT reply actions
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