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If It’s Friday, It’s Time For A USC Notes Column

As we like to say, if it’s Friday, it’s time for a USC notes column.

  • USC pitching coach Seth Etherton, a former Trojan player, deserves kudos this season. The pitching staff had a 4.39 ERA, which was first in the Pac-12 and 30th nationally. The team ERA improved by 1.08 runs.
  • USC basketball will play KK Mega Basket (the former team of Nikola Jokic) in Greece on August 9th and 11th. How many fans will go just to see Bronny James?
  • Two USC women’s volleyball players — outside hitters Jordan Wilson and Kalen Owes — have transferred to Arizona.
  • And now for some history:
  • Wide receiver Dwayne Jarrett (8) snags a high pass against Arizona in 2005. USC had won 46 of its last 48 games by the end of this season of the Pete Carroll Era.
  • USC tight end Fred Davis eludes Arkansas safety Randy Kelly in 2006. The Trojans won the game, 50-14, went 11-2 and a year later Davis won the Mackey Award as the nation’s top tight end.
  • This is a painting by Chris Siemer during the 1930s that was created for a display for the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. The horse created by the card section indicates that a USC football game is in progress. My favorite part is the Art Deco airplane.

Siemer was born in New Zealand and settled in Los Angeles in 1906 at the age of 32. He was commissioned by the Chamber of Commerce to paint a series of mural-size canvases to promote the area.

Defensive tackle Gary Jeter (79) and nose guard Tim Rhames vs. Stanford in 1975.

USC was ranked No. 4 in the nation and 7-0 overall in 1975 when it prepared to play at Cal. Here’s what another member of the team told me this week:

“We are on the buses outside Heritage Hall ready to go to the airport to fly to Cal and suddenly, the coaches told us to get off the bus,” the player said. “We go inside Heritage Hall and John McKay is waiting for us, with an unlit cigar in his hand, as usual.

“McKay tells us, `I’m going to Tampa Bay.’ We were shocked. Guys were talking about McKay in the locker room before the game (at Cal) and on the sideline during the game.

“We lose to Cal and end up losing four straight games. We were OK when there were rumors McKay was leaving but then he made it official. He didn’t coach the same. The assistant coaches werent coaching the same either. They were wondering, `Is he taking me to Tampa Bay?’ “

USC snapped a four-game losing streak in 1975 when it defeated Texas A&M, 20-0, in the Liberty Bowl.
  • This is USC tennis player Earl Cochell in 1951. Do you know his claim to fame? He is the only player banned for life by the USTA.

During a Round of 16 match at the U.S. Championships in 1951 against Gardnar Mulloy, Cochell intentionally lost a set to save his energy. When the crowd realized what Cochell was doing (he served underhanded), they booed and heckled him.

Cochell yelled back at the crowd. The chair umpire asked Cochell to “play tennis,” at which point Cochell tried to climb the umpire’s chair to grab the microphone. Cochell was pulled back before he could get the microphone. He then waived his racket to the crowd as an extension of his middle finger.

After he lost the match, Cochell confronted referee Ellsworth Davenport and used such abusive language that the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association (now the USTA) banned him from tennis for life. In 1962, he was reinstated, but by that point he was no longer competitive. John McEnroe had nothing on Cochell.

  • Last week I mentioned comedian Joe E. Brown sold out Bovard Auditorium when he performed in the Living War Memorial Variety show in 1952.  The show raised scholarship money for children of veterans who were killed in military service.

Now I know one reason why Brown was headlining the show. His son, Don, was killed when his twin-engine bomber crashed in the desert about 10 miles from Palm Springs on Oct. 8, 1942.

Marilyn Monroe’s 97th birthday was Thursday. So in honor . . .

PICTURES OF THE WEEK

  • During World War II, this Los Angeles Railway car on the “P Line” had shark teeth that mimicked the scheme on the Flying Tigers fighter planes.
Here is the corner of 6th and Hill in 1947 with the Paramount Theatre in the background.
  • I could do a whole series on underappreciated NBA players like forward Bill Bridges. In 1966-67, he averaged 17 points and 15 rebounds a game. Today, that would make him a star. His career averages were 12 points and 12 rebounds.

Bridges went to Kansas as a walk-on and proceeded to make the All-Big Eight Conference team for all three seasons he played on the varsity. He played three seasons with the Lakers and 13 seasons in the NBA.

  • How good does Comiskey Park look for the 1959 World Series between the White Sox and the Dodgers.

127 thoughts on “If It’s Friday, It’s Time For A USC Notes Column”

    1. Hi Jon!!! Kan u teech mee how 2 spell? I tired of da people call me FUCC-TARD!!! Missus sa u kan play wit her balls if u teech me.. ok?

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    2. …no restaurants … but… Marilyn Monroe….
      #I’llTakeIt
      P.S.
      What tennis player hasn’t given away a second set [while making his opponent cover the entire court] so that he can go into the third rested and ready to take the match?
      #EverybodyDoesIt

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      2. after i beat off i enjoy watching joe hit is head my boyfriend wants to suck my dick but it smells like fake gabby’s asshole

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      6. Too bad we don’t have video of the fall he took even before taking office in Nov 2020. That one resulted in a broken foot!! I’m sure it was just as funny as all of the others that followed.

        Sad thing is, he’s more physically fit for office than mentally fit. Only a matter of time until he clonks his head really hard in one of these falls. People with any sense knew this is exactly what we would get with him in office. The dunces are trying to convince themselves it’s gotten a lot worse since 2020. It’s actually accelerated rather slowly compared to most. Helps to have the best physicians in the world.

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      7. biden runs circles around donny mentally and physically go brush your teeth it smells like a soiled dildo look at the video all the proof you need

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      5. You enjoy your President Senile Joe’s Tall Tales

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      6. trump is running from the law biden just added 340k jobs last month you tell me whos trending in the right direction tell your boyfriend his breath smells like my dildo

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      8. putin needs you to suck his cock after that the fat from north Korea needs a blowjob and if anything is left in the tank donny jr wants one also get to work

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    4. LOL at the no life impostor, spends 24/7 on this blog impersonating other people.

      What a sad parhetic life he or she must live where it has nothing better to do than switch screen names and pretend to be other people.

      That idiot needs to get a life, go outside and get some sun, seriously…what a loser.

      Imagine spending so much time on a blog, switching between screen names having nothing better to do all day, damn how sad is that?

      LMFAO!

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      1. Sounds like something that loser pudly would do, he’s the one idiot that’s been missing from the blog, it has to be him

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      4. I use to suck Pudly76 off, is a matter of fact, I wanted to be Pudly76 😭😭. I loved him so 🥰🥰

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  2. Let me start by saying I bought a new computer and my secretary was putting it together when she came across ‘Inside USC’ and read some of the comments. She was shocked at the FILTHY LANGUAGE. I told her Wolf is a strange personality to put up with this.

    Never liked McKay as a human being, and the way he handled that 1975 team, a very good squad coming off a national championship, is typical McKay

    Times were different post World War 2 with street cars in downtown and hats worn

    So Joe E Brown’s son dies outside Palm Springs after the kid was unscathed in battle– life sometimes plays out weird

    Ever think that the the greatest thing to happen to legacies such as James Dean, Elvis and Marilyn is that we remember them in the prime of their youth

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    1. Hey John, is it just me, or have you noticed that all my predictions about USC are always wrong? I thought I knew it all, but I guess I’m not the Ass Lick 👅 Trojans Fanboy that I thought I was. But nevertheless, I’d still let Lincoln Riley plow my posterior’s stretched out cavity 😀

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    2. I sympathize with your secretary. No one should face today’s comments out of the blue. You need to slowly work up to our demented level of discourse over several years of gradual numbing of the senses….
      #GiveHerTime,John…

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      1. btw, I admired John McKay. 1)When he was told he could add a year to his life if he agreed to amputation of his right leg he said “nah, I think I’ll go out with both legs.” (2) He went to visit O. J. in lockup at Bauchet Street Jail knowing it represented a public relations nightmare [and said as much, “I’m here cuz he’s one of my boys –I don’t give up on my boys when they’re in trouble”]. (3) When UCLA gave him an award one year before he died he told the bruin crowd “this is the first time I’ve ever set foot on this campus.”
        #(4)HeSmiledWhenISaid”HiCoach”

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      4. I liked how he would hold court at Julies at Booth #1 and was at his driest wit after a tough loss. WWII made him very tough. He was larger than life.

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    3. John McKay never supported Anthony Davis for the Heisman because he hated the fact that Davis was dating his daughter, a black guy banging his daughter infuriated him

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      2. No doubt and McKay’s daughter situation was exacerbated by McKay’s consumption of 10 – 15, dbl. Fireballs a day. Too me, no one has had a greater bozo FB game than Davis’ Notre Dame performance, at the crumbling mausoleum.

        #”CORKY!, I need another dbl. Fireball; step on it will ya.”

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    1. Ed, please turn on the spellcheck on your cellphone, because you keep coming across as a Stupid Ass Fucc-Tard? You’re a second grader intellectually , and spew like a FUCC-TARD. How is the missus Peenus, do you still stick it in your ear as a hearing aid?

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      5. My president showers with his daughter:

        Ashley Biden also recounts alleged sexual abuse by a family member, according to an alleged entry in her diary obtained by The DailyMail.com:

        “I have always been boy crazy. Hyper-sexualized @ a young age…I remember somewhat being sexualized with [a family member]; I remember having sex with friends @ a young age; showers w/my dad (probably not appropriate).”

        – January 2019 diary entry by Ashley Biden

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      6. ivank said daddy took pleasure in washing between her thighs and ivank asked why his weenie was always pointing up

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      10. but my donny is running from the law and will soon be indicted joe will laugh his shorts off

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      11. Your “Law” is a Banana Republic kangaroo court. You love the Hillary/FBI Coup and killing America on November 3rd 2020.

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      1. By the way, Michael, I was commenting on your secretary gag
        As for McKay, when I said hello to him on campus he just plaintively winked

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      2. Ed. G = Philosopher George Berkeley
        #SamePhilosophicalSystem, and might I add, FUCC-TARD!! 😀

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    3. Judas Pence breaks the law on having classified documents just like Senile Joe did and the Senile Joe Regime says it’s fine.

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      1. i fucked up this whole fucking blog with my fake gabby obsession I need professional help

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      3. I love when you fellow libs defend your hero

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      4. trump is the best he wants to fuck his daughter on the spot

        he was feeding her a big black cock sounds delicious

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  4. I’m lost! Who is fake and who’s just an idiot on this blog? I wish you had to publish your real name. (Haha! As I use an alias!). Hashtag: Am I a hypocrite?

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    1. The steveg49 with the 42 jersey avitar is the impostor, I’ve been trying to notify the administration. He thinks he’s on Lincoln Riley’s coaching staff, and keeps posting false information and ignorant comments.

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      1. #42 got caught with his wife’s dildo up his asshole she can’t get rid of the shit smell dildos are for beavers not a fatass know it all

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      2. This time you reveal how stupid you really are. If I was on Rileys staff I sure as fuck wouldn’t be on here you idiot. Is you little weanie really that small? Does fucking this site up make you feel like a real man with lots of power? I bet it does.

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      3. This time you reveal how stupid you really are. If I was on Rileys staff I sure as fuck wouldn’t be on here you idiot, I’d be licking his Balls, silly . 🙄Is your big hairy cock really throbbing for me, if so I’ll inbox you my number. 😀

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    3. I’m going to complain to law enforcement about these imposters, because every time I try to type long drawn out, boring posts , I’m interrupted . And I’ve noticed that my boyfriend EdG still hasn’t learned to spell, he needs to stay off this blog

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      1. Interesting, a few minutes ago you had a different avatar on your comment, now back to your original. I know how you did that🤓. I thought you think I’m a dumb azz. 🤓I stand by my assertion that you need to leave.🤓 But after considering the legal ramifications of sending your email contact list information about all of your internet activity, I have decided to wait until my threat to do so has been forgotten. 🤓Then when it’s time I will come back for now I bow out and leave your witless bombardment of this blog to you. 🤓Eventually you’ll get tired of doing this, 🤓you are not Steve Rogers🤓. Adios motherf**ker!!!…. Btw, why am stupid enough to write all of this nonsense? I’d be better off using this time to use Ed.G’s Cock to check my tonsils 🙄🙄

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  5. Interesting, a few minutes ago you had a different avatar on your comment, now back to your original. I know how you did that. I thought you think I’m a dumb azz. I stand by my assertion that you need to leave. But after considering the legal ramifications of sending your email contact list information about all of your internet activity, I have decided to wait until my threat to do so has been forgotten. Then when it’s time I will come back for now I bow out and leave your witless bombardment of this blog to you. Eventually you’ll get tired of doing this, you are not Steve Rogers. Adios motherf**ker!

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    1. I don’t think he believes you OI, I wish you would do it. You are right it’s not worth jail time for you to get the idiot to stop. I hope you come back as yourself soon.

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      1. I don’t think he believes you OI, I wish you would do it.😂😂 You are right it’s not worth jail time for you to get the idiot to stop😂😂. I hope you come back as yourself soon. I’m a Dumb Ass too 😂😂😂

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      2. i am the dumb ass i spend all day here chasing fake gabby waiting to post a biden comment the same one I have posted 10x

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    2. Interesting, a few minutes ago you had a different avatar on your comment, now back to your original😂. I know how you did that. I thought you think I’m a dumb azz. 😂I stand by my assertion that you need to leave. But after considering the legal ramifications of sending your email contact list information about all of your internet activity, 😂I have decided to wait until my threat to do so has been forgotten. Then when it’s time I will come back for now I bow out and leave your witless bombardment of this blog to you. Eventually you’ll get tired of doing this, you are not Steve Rogers. Adios motherf**ker!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Why am I such a Dumb Ass?

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    1. Dear World,
      Scott is sly enough to know he can bludgeon Lincoln with Pete’s record if he loses more than 2 games this season…
      #LooksLikeThisIsTheStartOfAWolfmanSetUp…

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      2. Dear World,
        Scott is sly enough to know he can bludgeon Lincoln with Pete’s record if he loses more than 2 games this season…
        #LooksLikeThisIsTheStartOfAWolfmanSetUp. But the bottom line, I’m still going to log on 24/7 to read everything Scott has to say, because I have nothing else to do. 😂😂😂

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      3. Riley can’t win. If he loses it’s “fake Pete Carroll” and if he wins it’s “the transfer portal” as if he should have installed the I formation and won that way. SMH.

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  7. As George Tirebiter might say, “What has Scott Wolf wrought”
    The fakes are now 2:1 but as Wolf would contend, “clicks are clicks”

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    2. As George Tirebiter might say, “What has Scott Wolf wrought”
      The fakes are now 2:1 but as Wolf would contend, “clicks are clicks” 😂😂. ……Btw, my Peenus still smells like EdG’s posterior hole 😂

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      5. my king trump showered with ivank up until the point where she started pointing at it and laughing my kings ego was crushed

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  8. Are you entertained, Wolf, as your once nice blog has turned trashy
    Too bad too because you put a lot of effort into this, especially the Friday edition

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    1. I love the entertainment, don’t be such a stick in the mud. Reading theses posts are much better then all of you old Farts talking about the cowboy days 😂😂😂

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  9. Posting the same video more than half a dozen times. What a loser.

    A pathetic attempt to convince herself she didn’t make a huge mistake in 2020.

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    1. i voted for obama idiot he’s my hero tell your old lady her beaver needs to be washed out the dildo smells really bad

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      1. We know you are an idiot Fake Gabby, you support Pervert Joe and his chip off the old block Hunter:

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      2. my donny was found guilty of sexual assault what a great accomplishment all joe can do is smell hair disappointed

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      3. Nobody wit 2 brain cells believes that wacko your Senile Joe Regime kangaroo court put up to accuse Trump.

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    2. your party is beyond dysfunctional watch the video as biden slaps the dickheads around it’s hilarious had to watch it three times because of the laughter it brought tell your old lady there is no shame in using a douche

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      1. My wife Carol is a casual fan, but I called her in to watch that particular play, 4th and 9 with the winning streak on the line and the Irish screaming at SC, and with Jarrett making the catch (barely) she let out a blood-curdling scream to cement the moment in my memory

        I am somewhat apolitical, but I note the debt ceiling has been raised after Biden walled off the entitlement programs but acquiesced to a cut in IRS spending for new agents which should help out the tax-cheats.

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      3. Yeah….Don’t worry, John. Biden has all the new IRS agents he wants. And everything else he wants too, btw.
        Why do you think the dem controlled Senate passed this spending bill [which exceeds U.S. revenue by a very large number] in such record time?

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    2. ……true, Chucky baby..
      #…ButDidFredWinAnyNotreDameGamesOn4thAndNine?…. Btw, have I told you how sexy you look with those cute glasses, and well trimmed beard 🥰🥰 ? I’m just letting you know, I have my eyes on you 😘

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  12. Stop with the politics on this site, This site is supposed to be about USC Athletics instead its nothing but Biden and Trump political BS, Some of us come here to read the latest about USC athletics instead we get bombarded by people who post there political BS here instead of a real political website. All of you can continue stroking each other over Biden or Trump I’m done!

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