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From the OC Register: Major League Baseball pitcher Chan Ho Park is suing USC baseball coach Chad Kreuter - who was Park’s catcher with the Dodgers, TMZ is reporting. It’s not for the pitches...

Away in a plush house, not paying for a bed, The little poor Heisman lay down his bought head, The agents who financed looked down where he lay Their meal ticket pro prospect asleep on the hay. T...

UCLA had a coach who won a national championship in a major sport, then broke a financially-modest NCAA rule and tried to cover it up.  What did UCLA do?  It fired him, because the reputation of...

CRN = CCPC  (Coach Rick Neuheisel equals Coach Cheat Pete Carroll).  This appears to be what much of the media learned in junior high algebra (or at University of Scholastic Casualness). The...

If Franklin Pierce Adams, who penned the baseball classic "Tinker to Evers to Chance" in 1910, were alive today and witnessing "non"-professional collegiate football, he might be writing the...

This just leaked from NCAA Headquarters.... "After a very lengthy, albeit not not very penetrating, investigation, we reluctantly announce the severe 'Death Penalty' against the Southern California...

I assume everyone saw the first two predictions below, in the Times' October 7 special section on the baseball playoffs. You probably don't know that their third prediction got squeezed out at the...

  Free your calendar.  Set your Tivo.  Turn off laptop, cell phone, PDA.  This Saturday is the Pac-10, no, the national, game of the year. As the world knows, two squads will be battling for...

Renowned Ethicist Named Alumnus of the YearUCLA Awards exemplify the pride of UCLA. Come honor the founder of Character Counts!, a gold medalist, a public servant, a benevolent dentist and two of...

Free your calendar.  Set your Tivo.  Turn off laptop, cell phone, PDA.  This Saturday is the Pac-10, no, the national, game of the year. As the world knows, two squads will be battling for sole...

Please take note that the conference cellar is shared  by USC and WSU, although the latter had a  better weekend. Interesting quotes out there include Joe McKnight saying SC was more talented but...

If this looks familiar, he brought it with him from Pete Cheat U. 1. Recruit the players illegally. Six secondary violations in seven months; which is all that has come to light so far.  Many more...

There's an article today about all of the Heisman trophy winners (living and deceased) -- "Where Are They Now?".  The link is: http://www.lostlettermen.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=403 Both Tommy...

On appeal at the Nevada Supreme Court (see link http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_oj_simpson for details), OJ's fellow felon CJ Stewart has a compelling argument.: by being tried alongside OJ, instead...

Wooden Memories: Brubabes (UCLA's freshmen playing under legendary John Wooden)

Thanks (and apologies) to Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel: The Sounds of SCilence (on NCAA scandals)

She joked with DWTS host Tom Bergeron about earning a spot last year during the Spelling Bee telecast, which Bergeron hosts. She said she would ask again this year; ABC is broadcasting the Bee...

Shawn Johnson is an Olympic gold medalist in women's gymnastics.  She is the new champion of Dancing with the Stars.  She could do books; she could do movies; she could even sing on American Idol...

Just returned from 16 days in Japan and am catching up on BN.  I was able to access it a couple of times, thrilled, of course, to follow the Women's Water Polo!   Naturally I was looking forward...

Today's LA Times has Pete Carroll's cornerback Shareece Wright declining a plea bargain, reduced from felony to misdemeanor obstruction of justice, with jail time on weekends only.  (This makes...

I remember in junior high and high school we voted a classmate as Most Likely to Succeed.  He/she was the one we expected to go on to great things and probably become famous.  Our winner was Herb...

Tonight's Pac-10 tourney game shed more light on Tim Floyd's coaching m.o.  Ignoring the game, which SC had to win and Cal did not,  yet SC squandered all of a 15-point halftime lead before...

LA Times today quotes Hackett (pronounced "Hacker" in French) as liking USC's chances for winning the Pac-10 tourney because they beat everyone in the conference except UCLA.  This can cut two...

USA Today carried a story that shows Pete Carroll is the absolute highest paid employee among staff at 600 private colleges.  Obviously he "earns" more money than Nobel Prize winners, educators,...

The following is extracted from the Daily Trojan.  Attorneys consider this admissible evidence as it is a "declaration against interest."   A USC student and member of the track team was in...

By the end of the 2011 season, CRN will have had four years of his recruits to compare against four years of Pete Carroll's.  I am going to really go out on a limb here, but I hereby go on record...

With the 1964 & 1965 title squads being saluted yesterday at Pauley, it seems fitting to share a little about the Stars of '64.  I did not know any of them at that time -- too young -- but was...

A great story from Bruins Nation as a Bruin fan shares his memory of his first meeting with Coach John R. Wooden.

This week: Darren Collison: "I take full responsibility." (It's about the team.) Pete Carroll: "I am disappointed..." (It's about me.) After the success of Pete's books, Cheating for Dummies and...

A blogger from Bruns Naiton gets recounts UCLA basketball's 64-60 victory over USC in 1971. Bruins ranked number 2 at the numer pulled of a memorable win over then number 1 Trojans.