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Allyson Felix Field Becomes Official

The ceremony was just held for the renaming of Cromwell Field to Allyson Felix Field.

And it was a true USC production, with school president Carol Folt saying, “Allyson Felix Field is a place of joy.”

I’ve never heard that description before for an athletic field where athletes train. Was it a place of joy when it was called Cromwell Field?

“To be here today, I never would have imagined I would have the career I did,” Felix said. “This is so much more than I could have dreamt of. I hope I’ve left something behind. I hope students and athletes come to this field and experience what I did. I know there is greatness and excellence daily here. I am truly humbled.”

Once again, my usual disclaimer: Felix never competed at USC because she turned pro out of high school. So it’s an interesting choice for the field. But Mike Bohn (loudly) called Felix “a model Trojan” at the ceremony.

USC unveiled the renamed video board at the ceremony.

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71 thoughts on “Allyson Felix Field Becomes Official”

      1. No. Randi walks in the Ladies’ Bathroom and Carol walks out…
        #”Oh,LookIt’sCarol/Randi….orRandi/Carol…orWhatever…”

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  2. Just watched Bohn on YouTube…
    If Quentin Tarantino were directing Mike Bohn in a movie he’d be constantly motioning “bring it down” with his hands….

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      1. I’m all for that George. Or Charly Dumas field or sefton and medows track or rink babka arena or Don Quarie stadium or the Lennox Miller complex with the inger Miller pavilion. Even the Maxie Truex tower. Look I coaches Alison’s brother and when Alison was training there. She was a class act then and is now. I am so proud of who she was who she is as and Athelet, person and mother. But like any organization with an absolute obsession for public grandstanding relations. admin was busy stroking each other the whole way. I’m willing to bet that neither Folt or Bohn nor most of the admin even knew she never did wear the uniform until a month ago. They are just so glad to piggy back off the tv coverage she got on her swann song last summer. Good for her. But to all of us who left huge parts of our life on that field and that track day in and day out for 4-5 years and in my case another 40 hrs a week of free service for another 4 years. We know what that place is called. Just plain old Cromwell. And the real old timers turn it 90 degrees and call it bovard . So here’s to our history weather it is totally perfectly PC or Not. Should we never forget, so we don’t repeat our missteps. I left an ankle on that field but came back strong. I took a visious shot to the manly region, and I also returned from a fractured pelvis there too. No one can tell me what to call it cause it’s where I built character and became a man on that field

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    2. Dear Ed.,
      Carol to Ed: “Just for that crack you’ll NEVER get the Notre Dame Report Card!”
      [I don’t care what Carol sez…. it’ll always be the Ed.G field to me]…

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    1. business major from University of Alabama who was going to be fired. brought an AR-15 to work, i guess that seems normal in ‘Bama.

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      2. Pampered kids the last 20-30 years freak out when a girl rejects them or they get fired. Too bad they didn’t listen to the words of “This” by Darius Rucker. There’s a lot more living to do, after you get knocked down a few times. One of these days, you’ll find both the girl and job are right for you and had it never been for all of those “failures”, you never would’ve found it!

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    2. Yes, but not the robbery scenario you might expect. An employee (or former employee), so being a bank had nothing to do with it.

      Apparently, called someone he knew saying he wanted to die. Just a loser who didn’t want to go out alone.

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  6. Only USC would name their track stadium after someone who never ran one race for the school.

    Wouldn’t Louis Zamperini have been a better choice? Oh wait, he ACTUALLY ran for USC, was in WWII, but being a born again Christian probably sealed his fate with Woke Carol

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    1. A designated field? Dream on. Carol asked the Registrar to remove Louis’ name from USC enrollment records…
      #”SomethingAboutHisPatriotismReallyGripesMyAss”

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    2. I read an article about Stanford and how the administrators have set up a gestapo police state. they pointed out that there are 10K administration staff (not including professors) with an undergraduate student body of 7K (obviously doesnt include graduate programs). ratio seems a bit off.

      it feels to me like these administrators have to find something to do to justify their jobs. petty power over kids is for sick minds.

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      1. I hear the Judicial Law Clerks Association has asked Justices… at all levels ….to refrain from hiring Stanford law school graduates due to the abominable treatment Stanford law students showed to a federal appellate justice last month….

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      5. Thanks for some great humor while I continue to fume about the injustice to SC contributing graduates. I’ve long thought Matt Barkley deserved some recognition for keeping the team together when hit with the draconian sanctions.

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      6. Yes, Carra. Matt lost his starting center and his starting left tackle ….and with them all of his protection….& still did his best [particularly in the Stanford and UCLA games] to keep USC in it all by himself.
        A great Trojan.

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      2. How about your Descovy? Did that come down? I thought that was you in their latest commercial!

        #NotThatThere’sAnythingWrongWithIt

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      3. Gabby—
        Maybe check with me first.
        So Cal is gonna turn this reply against you at some point….

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      5. Exactly!… His father went to prison for his first deeds. Netflix has a great documentary about Jared the slum lord and some references to his father, another major conman

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    3. Great read. Tremendously strong case for conflict of interest. But…know what, Cal75? Not ONE thing will happen to the people selling out our country.

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      1. Especially when you had a guy indebted to Putin. And the same twice impeached grifter claimed on 37 separate public occasions Xi/China was being transparent regarding covid. Xi had trump by the balls with respect to trade deals so the orange cheeto went the cowardly route.

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      2. Gabby —Fortunately or unfortunately, no matter which one of us is right & which one of us is wrong, there won’t be any consequences…. for anybody… on either side….ever….
        #It’llBeFunToSeeHowThisPlaysOut….

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      6. No matter what I will continue to push debunked claims by Hillary because I am a manic depressive kook.

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      7. I’m so deluded I claim to be a Catholic but won’t say a word about Biden spying on the Catholic Church.

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    1. The wife & I went for a ride. I fire up her bike at least once a month and cruise around the block a few times. But she hadn’t ridden it yet this year. She had a blast!

      Then we took the dogs to the park. Made a very small rack of lamb for me, but pork ribs for the missus. (She’s not a lamb fan.) It was delicious!

      How about you?

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    2. I had a memorable day with my braindead inlaws. They sang rap songs. No, I’m not fucking with you. They sang rap songs.
      #IWentForAWalk&SawAFeralCat&2AllRedBirds&SomeMonarchs….
      #…[btw,SomeKidHadThrownUpEasterChocolateOnTheTrail]….

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  11. So they renamed the field, big deal, would a Cromwell by any other name still run track? Instead of learning from the mistakes of our forefathers, we change the name and it never happened.
    There is a street in Los Angeles that at one time was named Weller Street. John B. Weller was the first governor of California. The street was whittled down to a few blocks in length in the Little Tokyo area. My last name is Weller and the street’s namesake was a relative. When the space Shuttle Challenger blew up someone said, “Let’s rename Weller street in Little Tokyo to Onizuka Street, nobody knows who the street was named after.”
    I do not know if Cromwell has family living now, but we conveniently forget the good things he did and dwell on the bad. There was a reason the field was dedicated to Cromwell and USC desecrated that memory.

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    1. What a bunch of crap, Ghost. You’re acting like people’s lives are composed of various shades of gray.
      #It’sBetterToThinkInTermsOfBlackOrWhite….
      #TakeJefferson,ForInstance…
      #…TotallyEvil…
      #SameForAdams,Franklin&Washington….

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      1. You are so right. Call a shovel a shovel. McKay was a racist bastard he told my parents my brother needed to work on his tan if he wanted to play at USC when we were in Pop Warner and his son was playing.
        He also smoked cigars not the skinny types but those Labrador dog log size and we can’t have tobacco users as role models. That’s just the tip of the lettuce. Robinson said the “N” word out loud when reading from Mark Twain, and we all know what a rabble rouser Twain was.
        Don’t think Ghost of Me is free from controversy. I eat cancer causing chemicals daily and am about be expelled from California. (Can’t bury toxic chemicals without a permit so when I expire I’ll have to be shipped to another state)

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    1. Maybe we already have a “Sark” field….
      #Well,FoltDidCallIt”AFieldOfJoy”…
      #…[WasThisADogWhistleToDrugDealers]?

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