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USC Notes: NCAA Injury Update

Michigan State coach Tom Izzo set a record today as the first coach in history to make the NCAA Tournament 25 consecutive seasons.

“It means the world to me,” Izzo said. “It means I had a lot of good players. It means I had a lot of good staff. It means I had a lot of good fans. You don’t win games over a period of time because of what you do, you win games because of a collection of people doing their job.”

  • USC’s NCAA Tournament streak is now at three seasons. Drew Peterson, who has a sore back, expects to be 100 percent for the game. Freshman center Vincent Iwuchukwu is “day to day” but it is likely he will play.
  • USC graduate Ke Huy Quan won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor tonight for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
  • USC baseball took 2 out of 3 games from No. 2-ranked Stanford this weekend, which was significant because in past seasons this is the part of the season where the Trojans start to fold.
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62 thoughts on “USC Notes: NCAA Injury Update”

    1. IF I HAD MY CHOICE BETWEEN WINNING THE FIRST GAME
      OR
      GETTING ROBINSON
      I THINK I WOULD GO WITH ROBINSON
      DONT THINK WE HAVE MUCHHOPE AGAINST MARQUETTE.

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      2. I’m a big time USC football fan. I have been for a long time. I’m not a big time USC basketball fan. If they win…..wonderful. If they lose……I won’t be reaching for the depression medicine

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    2. in Other News…Mexico kicked the shit out of team USA

      As the illiterate idiot that posts here would say, smdh

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      1. And Mexico has beaten the USA in baseball in three straight meetings now with ZERO World Baseball classic championships. Stick with the SC hater stuff. Life is too complicated for you to figure out. How do you type with your ass?

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    2. Well, George, don’t rely too heavily on the oddsmakers, SC was also a 4 point favorite over the ‘Devils in the Pac-12 Tourney and we know how that played out
      although the loss didn’t hurt SC and the win put ASU in the NCAAs

      This will mark the 28th straight year sucla has not won anything because its regional has No. 1 Kansas, Gonzaga and a resurgent Kentucky to even get to the ‘Final-4’

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      1. L J OL PAL JUST CANT. GET. EXCITED ABOUT THIS TOURNAMENT
        MAYBE I WILL IF WE GET TO THR SECOND WEEK
        BUT
        GOOD LUCK ON THAT

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  3. “Everything, everywhere, all at once” was so bad I walked out of the theatre after about 15 minutes of viewing it. I mentioned I had seen only one theatre movie since the Pandemic 3-years ago, but I forgot I also “saw” this one

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      1. Last time we went was 2019, GT, and before that 2004, if I’m not mistaken. We attend 2-4 live theater events each year, but movies once every 10 years or so.

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      2. HI SO CAL AND TROJ
        SEEMS LIKE MOVIES WERE BETTER MADE MANY YEARS AGO
        I WAS NEVER BIG ON MOVIES EXCEPT MAYBE OLD ONES ON TV
        SOME OF THOSE WERE GOOD
        FROM THE TWENTIES TO MAYBE THE SIXTIES

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      3. Some movies cannot be fully appreciated except viewing them on a big screen, George
        “Avatar” probably being one, and I cannot imagine feeling the same way if I had viewed “The Ten Commandments” or “2001- A Space Odyssey” on a mere tv screen

        And nothing is better than a big theatre crowd laughing in unison at a good comedy
        When was the last time any of us experienced that?

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    2. Anything that comes out of “Wokewood” is pure trash, and they know it. They just don’t want to admit to the fact that if you go woke you go broke.

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      2. GOP wokescreen is a smokescreen for their lack of policy agenda that would suit the working class…and you filthy no good trumpster’s know it.

        You clowns aren’t getting any of your idiotic radical fascist policies past the democrat led Senate

        LOL!

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  4. i aint makein a axscuse but if we aint win itz cuz 40 pir scent of r playurs iz injird,itz a facked and not a axscuse,but if we aint win itz cuz of the injirees,smdh

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    2. Ed is having an effect on everybody’s writing…..
      #IWouldn’tCallItAGoodOrABadEffect….
      #JustAnEd.GEffect

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    3. I’m not making excuses for the Trojans losing to ASU in the conference tournament but 40% of our starting five were not fully healthy.

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      1. So Frankie, you’re saying SUCC’s one and done loss (Some things don’t change.), was due to 40% of SUCC’s starting 5 weren’t healthy? That’s an excuse.

        I did say 40% of UCLA Starters were injured and on the bench, but it wasn’t the reason UCLA lost.

        UCLA lost the game because they didn’t score more points then AZ.

        That’s a fact Frankie, not an excuse.

        #”Facts matter” ~ Dear Pissley

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      2. JO,
        You’re finally getting it!
        Looking ahead, If USC loses on Friday, it’s because of the early tipoff.
        A 9:15 tipoff is not an excuse, it’s a fact!

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      3. SodomizedUSC hasn’t been around since I exposed him as being another triggered pudly handle

        LOL

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  5. HI MICHAEL
    NEVER BIG
    REPEAT BIG
    ON MAMIE VAN DOREN
    BUT TERESA WRIGHT SO CUTE
    AND RAQUEL WAS JUST WAY OUT OF MY LEAGUE BRO
    JAYNE MANSFIELD DIED IN A TRAGIC CAR ACCIDENT
    SHE WAS DECAPITATED
    MICKEY HARGITAY WAS HER HUSBAND AND THEYHADKIDS
    HORRIBLE

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    1. George —I seem to remember Jayne’s publicist telling people that Jayne wasn’t decapitated —that her blond wig had flown off in the accident. [But, in Hillary’s immortal words, “what difference does it make now?”]….
      While were on the subject Hollywood stars with gangster boyfriends,
      here’s a story for you, George. When Sean Connery was making a movie with Lana Turner her boyfriend —tough guy, Johnny Stompanato —came on set and threatened Connery with a gun. Conner kicked his ass.

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      3. MG: I read that Sean Connery story too. Connery was dating Lana Turner at the time.
        Dating Lana Turner and beating up a bad guy adds to the James Bond mystique. He was also a weightlifter/body builder who competed in the Mr. Olympia contest. The 007 series was originally written for Cary Grant but the studio could not meet Grant’s salary demands and Grant turned them down. Consider the similarities between Grant’s character in Hitchcock’s North by Northwest and Bond.

        By the way George, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardener, and Judy Garland were all on the MGM lot at the same time. How would you rank them. Not solely by talent, otherwise Judy wins hands down, but overall including talent and beauty.

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      4. Plow Horse –Check out MGM’s Clark Gable [as Fletcher Christian] in Mutiny in the Bounty. Not only does he out act the legendary Charles Laughton {as Bly]—but his performance easily eclipses the next two Fletcher Christians —Brando & Mel Gibson.
        MGM’s Elizabeth Taylor was phenomenal in A Place In the Sun. You can see why Montgomery Clift was willing to die for her in that last scene. The big mystery is: how did THAT actress turn into the one we saw in Cleopatra?

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  6. Eddie was making fun of a certain sucla on this SC blog
    You know the one, the 70ish guy who acts like a whiney 7-year old
    “Our sucla players were hurt, that is a FACT not an excuse” cries the shameless sucla
    At a minimum that is a hybrid if you ask me

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    1. Damn LJ, I sure wish you’d pull your head out. I GUESS I NEED TO SHOUT.

      UCLA LOST THE AZ GAME BECAUSE THEY FAILED TO SCORE MORE POINTS THEN AZ…PURE AND SIMPLE.

      Apparently LJ, “pure and simple” confuses (Surprise, surprise) you. It means no EXCUSES!

      I mean LJ, when was the last time bozo rah-rah’s didn’t have at least 27 excuses, excuses, excuses, excuses for a routine bozo choka, choka, choka loss.

      #”Facts matter” ~ Dear Pissley

      Cue: The “One and Done Boogie”

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      1. You are walking back your original comment of “…that 40% of [sucla’s ]first 5 were injured and on the bench…”

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  7. To Plow Horse’s big-stars’ assessment, I will only say if these ladies were trading cards I would give you Judy Garland, Ava Gardener and Lana Turner for one Elizabeth Taylor

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    2. If you’re talking about the Elizabeth Taylor of A Place in the Sun….and not the one in The Sandpiper, I agree with you, John…..

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  8. THE YOUNG LANA AND THE YOUNG LIZ WERE JUST THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EVER

    AVA CARRIED HERSELF THE LONGEST
    LONGEVITY COUNTS
    AND JUDY THE MOST TALENTED WE ALL AGREE
    BUT ON THE DECLINE AT AGE TWENTY FIVE OR SO CUZ THE STUDIO REALLY HURT HER

    OVERALL
    ITS HARD
    BUT
    I GO WITH LIZ !!

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  9. Sean Connery ? Wasn’t he the singing actor in Disney’s Darby O’Gil and the little people? My own Sean Connery story is one I love to tell. I was the drummer for the West Coast re-enacting group, The Delaware Regiment. We re-enacted the Revolutionary War and being close to Hollywood we’re often called upon to play extras for movies being made. Some of the scenes in the Mel Gibson movie Revolution were taken directly from our re-enactments. Anyway we were invited to the premiere of an Alan Alda movie, Sweet Liberty. Michael Caine was in the movie and his buddy Sean Connery came to the premiere. I was standing at attention with my sticks in hand and drum across my shoulder when Connery walked by. He ambled over to me, leaned in and said, “ It gets a bit tedious, doesn’t it.”
    (I haven’t washed those drumsticks to this very day)

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    2. Connery’s big line in Darby comes when he walks into a pub and challenges the village asshole into a fight with the words “What kind of man are you a’tall that doesn’t believe in the Little People?” My son and I start every other telephone conversation with this line [I’m not sure why]. Anyway my son said the line to one of his very hardcore students in an Oakland classroom…. and was surprised as hell when the kid brought green cupcakes to class the next day, saying “I do believe in the Little People, Mister Guarino.”
      btw, Maybe say a prayer for my son’s best friend and fellow Bay Area teacher, Eduardo Nava, who was tragically killed over the weekend. Such a loss for his family and students…..

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  10. HEY OWNS
    IF YOU DONT WANT TO MAKE EXCUSES THEN WHY OPEN WITH
    FORTY PERCENT OF THE STARTERS WERE HURT ????
    it’s a fact AND an excuse !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    PERHAPS YOU NEED TO RE PHRASE??

    THIS IS A GOOD LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR YOU MR OWNS

    HAHAHA HAHA HAHA HAHA
    OOOH MY SIDE HURTS

    HAHA HAHA HAHA HA HAHAHA
    OOOH
    LMFAO !!!
    OOOH

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  11. Memo to: LJ

    Walk back all you like. But like a typical, scumbag Ratpublican, you can’t come to grips with fact. So you invent whiny BS to make a worthless point. Po’ LJ, he (Can’t Get No)Satisfaction,” w/o lying like a ratty, smelly rug.

    #bozo BB: the Jokes that Chokes.

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  13. Scooterr,

    I was at the SC baseball game and finally for one day the pitching for SC held up. There were a few times that Stanford was thretening to score, but the SC pitcher’s struck out the side or got out of the jam. This can be a momentum builder for SC.

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