USC guard Drew Peterson signed an Exhibit 10 contract with the Miami Heat on Thursday night.
An Exhibit 10 contract is a one-year, minimum-salary NBA deal that allows the franchise to convert the contract to a two-way contract if that change is made before the start of the regular season.
A two-way contract stipulates an athlete’s salary is dependent on the league they are assigned to play.
- Thursday’s NBA Draft was the first one since 2017 that a USC player was not selected.
- Linebacker Jordan Lockhart of St. John Bosco committed to Texas A&M over USC on Thursday night.
- Two former USC athletes are in the top 10 of sports earners from personalized video company, Cameo and they might not be who you expect.
Former USC basketball player Brian Scalabrine is the sports star in sixth place with earnings of $83,885 from 883 videos. The ex-Celtics player charges $95 per video, which is considered reasonable.
By comparison, former USC player Aaron Boone, the Yankees manager, charges $325 per video and made $93,925 from 289 videos. That ranks Boone fourth overall in earnings.
- And now for some history:
- In 1957, there was a controversy over how a new George Tirebiter was selected.
That led to this commentary in the Daily Trojan: “Almost anything would be better than a horse we see once a week during the football season for about five minutes at a time and never more throughout the year.”
It’s actually an understandable statement and it was apparently before a horse became a sacred tradition at USC. The horse from 1954-59 was Rockazar, who was ridden by his owner, Bob Caswell. Traveler and Richard Saukko did not start until 1961.
- Does any USC football player look happier than tailback Tony Ortega in 1958? Ortega was an All-CIF back at Cathedral High School in Los Angeles and once scored four TD’s in 12 minutes in a prep game with scoring runs of 91, 87, 85 and 75 yards.
- Mari Blanchard was nine units short of earning a USC degree with an interest in international law when she dropped out and became an advertising model. A bubble bath ad led to a movie contract with Paramount and she became an actress.
Maybe her best-known role was the female lead in the 1953 comedy, “Abbott and Costello Go To Mars.”
She was born in Long Beach and contracted polio at age 9 and spent two years undergoing rehab and alternative treatments. She walked again at age 11 and then ran away from home to join Cole Brothers Circus, where she was a trapeze artist.
- Her final role was in the 1963 John Wayne film, “McClintock!”
- And this is a good segue to a question I get asked a lot about who is and who is not a Trojan? Is Mari Blanchard a Trojan? Yes. Is Mike Bohn a Trojan? No. Is Brandon Sosna a Trojan? No. Is Richard Saukko a Trojan? Yes.
- Last week, I wrote about USC students stealing the 6-foot stuffed bear “Joe Bruin” at the Bruin Theater in Westwood in 1952.
This week’s prank involved USC students stealing the UCLA banner that was hung at the Coliseum on game days in 1958.
It took two months of planning and 18 members of the Trojan Squires to pull off the job after UCLA defeated Oregon, 7-3, at the Coliseum the week before the Crosstown Rivalry.
The heist took place when the banner was stolen from a Bruin truck parked near the Coliseum tunnel while fans held a post-game rally outside the UCLA locker room. The truck’s driver had left the keys in the ignition of the truck to observe the rally, which blocked his exit from the Coliseum. This allowed a USC student to take the keys, unlock the back and remove the banner, which was in a box.
A UCLA official asked the USC student, who was wearing a UCLA rooter’s hat, what he was doing and the student said, “taking the banner.” The UCLA official let him pass.
The Squires then hid the banner in the men’s room at the Industrial Arts Museum in Exposition Park while waiting to bring a car from the USC campus.
The Squires, fearing retaliation, started guarding Tommy Trojan during the week, a tradition that still occurs today.
As for the banner, it was returned at halftime of the USC-UCLA game a week later.
- It’s still hard to believe the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity had a pet lion cub in 1958. “Alpha” weighed 50 pounds at the time of this picture and the public was allowed to watch her daily feeding at 4 p.m., when she ate three pounds of horse meat.
RESTAURANT OF THE WEEK
The Shrine Auditorium had a coffee shop? There were much better food options around USC in the old days.
PICTURE OF THE WEEK
Why not?
InsideUSC with Scott Wolf 
MM saves the day. Best part of the post.
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It’s all good…
#..ButMarilynIsReallySomethingElse…
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It’s all good…
#..ButMarilynIsReallySomethingElse
#…AndHerTittiesWerePlumpAndJuicyYum🤗
#…MyBonerGetsHugeWhenIThinkOfHer
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Why is this obscene post allowed to stand?
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Yeah, wondered where she had been.
Tony Ortega from Cathedral High School. An acquaintance of mine graduated from Cathedral around 1960. Don’t we have one or two alumni here?
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Visited Calvary Cemetery (Downey and Olympic) on Wednesday. It was originally where Cathedral High School sits today. A new cemetery named ‘Calvary’ was moved from No. Broadway to East LA in 1896 – Cathedral HS was founded in 1925…..homeof ‘the Phantoms!’
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Great mascot name, considering the history. Thanks! Though I haven’t been there in years, I went a few times long ago and didn’t know about it having been moved.
Now I’m craving a Manuel Special from El Tepeyac, near Evergreen Cemetery!
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Yeah, wondered where she had been.
Tony Ortega from Cathedral High School. An acquaintance of mine graduated from Cathedral around 1960. And he use to Jack off to her photos. And I would join in on occasion, but only if he promised to beat my meat too.
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Why is this obscene post by Fake Gabby using another posters handle allowed to stand?
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Thank you, Scott.
#GuessIHaveToSeeAbbott&CostelloGoToMarsAgain…
#MarilynWillNeverDieAsLongAsInsideUSCIsAround
[The UCLA banner shouldn’t have been returned. I like the idea of cutting it up into lots of nifty capes —like the one Bob Caswell wore –for the Traveler riders]…..
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Let’s Make today Happy Day, Gabby 1, Gabby 2, Gabby 3, G, False Gabby, Original Gabby……
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As Miracle Max said, “It would take a miracle.”
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I believe in miracles, So Cal…
#SoCalIsAMiracle
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I believe in miracles, So Cal…
#….IGotABonerWithoutTheBluePillLastNight
#…Unbelievable!! 🤭
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Just to be clear, Fake Gabby needs treatment for her paranoid schizophrenia condition. It is a fairly common (and can be severe) mental illness: about 0.32% of the population suffers from it. [Let’s see. There were 331 million Americans in the 2020 Census. I don’t believe they diagnose it (for sure) until one’s late teenage years, so let’s apply it to those Americans and Traitors like Fake Gabby 18 and over. Google says that 258 million Americans are 18 years old & older: 258 million x 0.0032 = 825,600 people adults who suffer from paranoid schizophrenia, just like Fake Gabby.
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Let’s Make today Happy Day, Gabby 1, Gabby 2, Gabby 3, G, False Gabby, Original Gabby…… Oh, and let’s teach that Fuc-Tard EdG how to spell , that would make my day complete.
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Fake Gabby is criminally insane!
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The handler of gotroy22 needs to get him back on his meds ASAP! He had over 40 posts directed at me or Biden.
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Fake Gabby is allowed to post vile obscene posts impersonating other posters.
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Damn bozo BB Clownsters, three (3) BB Bruins are drafted.
Jaime Jaquez Jr. (Miami)
Amari Bailey (Charlotte)
Jaylen Clark (Minnesota)
UCLA have had a total of 43 BB players drafted in the1st rd.
As usual, the bozos had ZERO players drafted.
#Thanks Enfield.
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With all that talent the Bruins must have had a tremendous season. Can you please remind us about all that they accomplished.
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In terms of the Brass Ring?
#NotTooMuch[AsUsual]
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Well for one thing Mr. One, the Bruins didn’t go ONE & DONE in the Tournament… You know, the auld, bozo BB choka, choka, choka, choka, choke Tournament job.
The Bruins didn’t go ooooooooooo for Oregon or go 2 – 4 on neutral sites like the Andyain’twinners did.
The Bruins didn’t choka, choka, choka lose to Florida Gulf Coast Univ. 74 – 61, at the Galen cattle pen/abattoir.
Cue: The bozo BB publicity video, “Andyain’twinning is excited ’cause Bronny farts big!”
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So the daily Trojan didn’t like having a horse mascot and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity fed a lion cub 4lbs. of horse meat every day is there a correlation?
Am I a Trojan? According to the arbiter of such things I would guess not. Mike Bohn worked for the university, why isn’t he a Trojan? Does that exclude Carol Dolt?
And finally Mclintok one of my dad’s all time favorite John Wayne movies. This, of course until my son pointed out that the movie ended with a good old wife beating. Fortunately John Wayne is a Trojan.
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McLintok ended the same way Hatari ended —with the Duke hunting down his fleeing Woman …while large crowds of men laughed.
#TheyJustDon’tMakeMoviesLikeThatAnymore….
#[ThisNewsIsGonnaTriggerMyFriendOwnsAllOverAgain]….
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Don’t forget The Quiet Man MG. I’m gonna have to dig through my John Wayne collection to see how many time John whooped Katherine.
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“McClintock” is one of my favorites. “Tall In The Saddle” would also make my Top 5, as would “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”, even if Jimmy Stewart played the lead.
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Actually MG, I enjoyed the “Old Yellow Belly” movies “McLintock” and “North to Alaska.”
Of course, Johnny Horton’s “North to Alaska” song will now continuously loop in my brain for a couple of days.
Ernie Kovacs’ NtoA character, always reminds me of a typical Clown U grad.
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Mister Owns,
Check out Hatari –it’s hilarious to see Wayne telling the much younger Elsa Martinelli to stop kissing him—“I’ve had just about enough of that!” As if. [It is nevertheless a great junk movie].
And check out Strangers When We Meet if you wanna see Ernie Kovacs at his best [virtually all the background shots in that move take me back to high school days —the homes were homes of friends, the Brentwood Mart is where I got my first job, the Kiddie Rides were located right next to the Von’s store my family used to shop at]….
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Whiskey quick!!
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The handler of gotroy22 needs to get him back on his meds ASAP! He had over 40 posts yesterday directed at Biden or me. I will admit to being no angel, but he has taken stalking and political rants to a whole new level. So Cal and I have our moments but it does not compare to this idiot’s trolling.
Perhaps the time has come for Scott to start another message board within his blog dedicated to political talk. I am sure he would get lots of clicks. gotroy22 would have a home where he could talk to himself all day without bothering the rest of us.
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The handler of Fake Gabby needs to get her back on his meds ASAP! She had over 100 vile obscene posts yesterday and today impersonating good posters.
Fake Gabby needs treatment for her paranoid schizophrenia condition. It is a fairly common (and can be severe) mental illness: about 0.32% of the population suffers from it. [Let’s see. There were 331 million Americans in the 2020 Census. I don’t believe they diagnose it (for sure) until one’s late teenage years, so let’s apply it to those Americans and Traitors like Fake Gabby 18 and over. Google says that 258 million Americans are 18 years old & older: 258 million x 0.0032 = 825,600 people adults who suffer from paranoid schizophrenia, just like Fake Gabby.
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Here’s one for So Cal
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Original Gabby —I ALMOST hate to bring this up….but….did O’Hara’s dialog about not wanting to lower herself by conversing with Wayne remind you a little bit of Biden’s explanation as to why he won’t debate Robert Kennedy?
#”ThePresidentWon’tLowerHimselfDebatingAConspiracyTheorist”
#Sorry
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That’s a debate for 2028 Newsom vs Kennedy. Just like Trump said, why debate someone with a 0% chance of winning!
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Yep. The Biden & Trump version of the Monroe Doctrine — I’ve got the power [poll numbers] to shut you so I’m gonna shut you out.
#ForgetAllThe”PublicGood”&”MarketPlaceOfIdeas”Stuff….
#…GoWith”MightMakesRight”
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Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on what side of the fence you’re on, you’re correct!
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Why should RFK debate someone with 100% chance he is a crook?
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I found on another site that it is possible to look up what recruits are taking official visits each week. Interesting that alot of the recruits that USC wants are all visiting Alabama this weekend or last.
It will be interesting to see if USC is now able to win over places like Georgia and Alabama.
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It shows the class of kids they working on for sure.
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Scott – Isnt it time to implement an email login requirement for posting?
It would allow you to stop the posting under fake identities. You should set up the usernames with email addresses of your main posters in your system and email the login credentials to those people with a request for them to change the password. That way the fake posters cant take over the screennames of your core group.
With an email login you could stop most of the fake posting by threatening that you will ban their email address. Sure someone can create a new email and then use that to create a new screenname, but most people will give up after you ban a few email addresses.
I know that sometimes I also post political stuff, but some of the flame wars get a bit too much.
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Good idea.
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…but Scott would lose 200 hits a day…..
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The Wolf man is a Herr Starr kind of kind. Whatever it takes to win!
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Herr Starr kind of GUY! (an edit button would be nice.)
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It might also make owns stop his homage to ‘Sybill’.
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I’ll quit my homage to “Sybil,” (Just one ‘L,’ Arthur.) when you Commie Lush, quit your homage to “Otis.”
Rodney Dangerfield didn’t get any respect; you, Commie Lush, don’t deserve any respect.
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