USC hopes to get its 13th commitment of June today when cornerback Braylon Conley of Humble, Texas, makes his announcement.
- Four-star wide receiver Dre’lon Miller committed to Texas A&M on Thursday. USC was a finalist. Earlier this week, linebacker Jordan Lockhart committed to A&M over USC and offensive lineman Makai Saina chose USC over A&M and Texas.
- Was Gypsy Boots a Trojan? Without a doubt. He was a fixture at USC games for decades, loved the USC band and used to get free tickets from the Knights or the Sigma Chi fraternity. If you went to a USC game during this period, you remember hearing Boots ringing his cowbell and leading cheers.
- And now for some history:
- Last week, I wrote about the USC students stealing a giant UCLA banner from the Coliseum after a Bruins game in 1958. At the same time, another group of USC students unveiled a large UCLA banner stolen from the UCLA Spring Sing event seven months earlier. It was placed in the USC student section during the game.
Not every prank was a success. Four USC students were apprehended by UCLA security before they could install a cardinal-and-gold loudspeaker atop a 150-foot flagpole at the center of the Westwood campus.
- The 1969 Rose Bowl featured No. 1-ranked Ohio State vs. No. 2 USC. That’s two-time unanimous All-American Jack Tatum chasing O.J. Simpson. The undefeated Buckeyes won, 27-16. Gotta love the NBC parabolic microphone dish.
- Here is the USC-Cal game from 1968, with fullback Dan Scott making the block and QB Steve Sogge (6) delivering the handoff to Simpson. Cal needs to wear these helmets again.
- There’s a lot of USC ties in this section on actors.
- Did you know actress Cybill Shepherd is a Trojan? She spent her final year of college at USC. So if you count Jordan Addison, you count Shepherd.
- What about actor Martin Milner? He spent his freshman year at USC but dropped out to focus on his acting career.
- Milner’s Adam-12 partner, Kent McCord, transferred to USC from Citrus College in 1961 to play football. While at USC, McCord played in a touch football game with Ricky Nelson (and Elvis Presley!) and became close friends with Nelson.
It didn’t work out under John McKay so McCord transferred to Utah in 1962. But his friendship with Nelson led to 40 appearances on “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriett” TV show and it was Goodbye Football, Hello Acting!
Nelson did not go to USC but his older brother, actor David Nelson, attended USC. Milner graduated from North Hollywood High School while McCord graduated from Baldwin Park High School. The Nelson brothers went to Hollywood High School.
- Who would ever guess President Dwight Eisenhower would make a parking lot across from the Coliseum on Menlo Ave. (now Bill Robertson Lane) and 39th Street his landing spot for a 1958 appearance in Southern California?
Eisenhower landed in a helicopter, was greeted by the USC Pep Band and some dignataries but did not actually speak. His motorcade went past USC down Exposition Blvd. on his way to the Statler Hotel, which became the Wilshire Grand.
Eisenhower spoke that night at a rally at the Shrine Auditorium.
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Jerry Goldsmith was a music student at USC who dropped out before he earned his degree. He became a film composer and was nominated for an Academy Award 18 times. He won for The Omen in 1976.
But his most memorable scores were for Chinatown (1974), Patton (1970), Planet of the Apes (1968) and five Star Trek films.
Goldsmith composed the score for Chinatown in 10 short days after producer Robert Evans jettisoned the original score at the last minute. And it’s considered a masterpiece.
PICTURE OF THE WEEK
Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles and Nancy Loomis on the set of Halloween (1978). No USC ties, just a classic horror movie.
InsideUSC with Scott Wolf 
Thank you SCOTUS on the loan forgiveness ruling.
Enough with these “executive order” handouts already.
All we hear is complaining about the high amounts of college debt.
What about going after the universities charging exorbitant amounts of tuition? USC seems to raise tuition above inflation rate every year. Why not go after these institutions?
Or how about those worthless degrees in crazy majors like “North Korean” art history?” Don’t the students have a responsibility to vet the degree to see how it will help them in the workplace?
This from a middle of the road “Reagan” conservative not a Trumpster and also never a Biden/Harris supporter either.
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There are very few Biden/Harris supporters left.
#AndIt’sGonnaGetWorseForThem…
#Way,WayWorse
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40% actually approve of the job he’s doing, Michael!
Stubborn people who can’t admit when they’re wrong.
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Just like the red wave, you Kool-Aid drinkers were drooling over it. Trump will get crushed by 12 million votes in the general election. The face of this country will not be a loser behind bars trying to do the work of the people. But hey, nothing wrong with hoping.
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Yeah, better to have THIS as the face of the country! LMAO!
Doesn’t know who he is, what he’s done for a living, where his own son died, who his granddaughter is, etc., etc.
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Gabby —You’re right. Repubs were plain dumb to keep talking about the Red Wave [I think I may have been one of them]. Trump will win in a squeaker if they don’t jail him [and dems know it —that’s why they’re trying to jail him].
btw, I just saw a Robert Kennedy clip from a recent Townhall —he was telling some former Teddy Kennedy staffer that his scheduling mistakes were the fault of his staff. He got torched. And, worse, he looked weak.
I thought he might be the answer —but he’s not. If he can’t handle a former Kennedy staffer he’ll be eaten alive by the CIA & FBI.
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I’m glad she finally admitted that the Dims are scared they can’t beat Trump fair & square, so that’s why they’re trying to lock him up, in true Banana Republic fashion.
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Fake Gabby knows the Democrats don’t need to be popular as long as they have 81 million ballots all ready to be cast. They could run Bernie Lomax and win.
Plow Horse
JUNE 23, 2023 AT 3:24 AM
Chickensh*t Gabby: When you insult my wife and mother you challenge me. Say to my face the garbage you say on this board Mr. keyboard tough guy. If you think I am an old man who you can beat up, let’s set a date at the Pasadena boxing gym. C’mon be a man.
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Make that 88 million votes…..7 million more Latinos will reach voting age by the 2024 election…..HAHA!!!! YOU FUCKING LOSER…WIPE THE DROOL AND GET THE DIAPER CHANGED
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It pays to be the son of a illegitimately high ranking pedophile.
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Ballots, you lying evil dolt, not voters. We know your senile old pervert Joe Biden didn’t even get 50 million real voters to support him with his non-campaign. Your Dictator just got smacked and we know what Dictators do to their courts when they don’t acquiesce…
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Here is a supporter of anyone not a current Republican. Who is youR great
choice of the terrible candidates running on the conservative side? How do
you like the Stock Market today?
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How do you like Senile Joe destroying America and weaponing the Deep State against all his enemies like all Banana Republic Dictators?
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Government loans and grants were originally focused only on degrees in areas of critical need to the country – scientific and engineering degrees to make us competitive. Now we fund degrees that are worthless to our country.
I want to see us cut all government financing for non-technical degrees. And increase financing of degrees for technical trade degrees, like plumbers and electricians. Things we can actually use. Instead of more degrees in psychology or geology, etc.
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Young Dole for Pineapple.
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I wonder how long since they have won WHEN WE HAD a coach..
been a while. 💋💔🖕🏽
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Since 2006?
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Wolfe, your Friday column are something I always enjoy. Scott y do I have to always log in to post comments after I give my information passwords, every other day? Can someone email me to straighten out this issues. Now i know how Gabby and all his fake names came about, every time this happens, you have to create a new username with a strong password when u was always logged in. U allow for filteration of his constant post repeating the same obnoxious bs post after post when you know it’s not appropriate for a sports blog. This is not gay blog or sexist blog. Please have your censorship police clear this blog up n stop letting him/her post bs that offends other’s who find that bs apalling. What someone does in their private life with their wife/husband doesn’t need to be told that’s what Facebook is for . #WarAgainstAllFakeImpostersWhoDon’tHaveN humbleOpinion#FightOn
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I don’t know who you are Gabby Original I just gave u a platform to get back at my tongue lashing. I give you all the right to respond back so bring it own my guy. LET’S GO!!!!! N anybody who wants a piece of me to talk about how I don’t like this BS which Wolfe allows on this blog. I know I’m going to get all kind of flak for speaking my mind. Now I’m done n if someone wants to debate me LET’S GO!!!!!
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I have absolutely no issues with you. Here’s the problem, a worthless sack of shit by the name of gotroy22(the fool is like an old piece of furniture that has been around forever) thinks it’s ok to stalk, mock, and troll me 24/7 as an imposter using “MY USERNAME”. The idiot clearly has some mental issues and feels it’s appropriate to carry on that type of behavior. According to a fellow member, so cal, it’s perfectly acceptable for me to respond back in-kind to his freak.
With that said, Scott generates revenue based on the traffic his blog receives.. So there is no reason for him to stop the BS you and I are both referring to. This type of rhetoric has been going on for many years on Scott’s current and previous blogs.
Perhaps try sending Scott an email voicing your concerns and start calling out the fake gabby(aka gotroy22). My username name has an avatar of so cal sitting on the shitter. Good luck trying to get some traction with the pathetic situation regarding gotroy’s numerous imposters.
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Claims his avatar is me sitting on the shitter, but that gotroy22 is the blog’s real problem. LMAO!
Also ignoring the many times he’s posted under other users’ names and all of the vile things he’s posted and continues to post.
The alternate reality in which she lives is amazing!
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shut the fuck up…you little fucking worn….Let’s meet up…bring plow and go-pussy with you….slo cal acts like he’s an angel, but forgets how he talks about my 74-year-old mom lactating into my mouth or how my daughter is a whore, who has had numerous abortions or that my wife is a prostitute on the vegas strip….the fucking idiot forgets half the shit he says and claims at least 12 blog members have called me out, but can only name two trolls…. …it’s too bad his old lady took his balls away….
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You are the problem, Cowardly Gabby. When you disappeared in shame last weekend after Plow Horse humiliated you we had actual posts about USC football. Then you returned like herpes. Why won’t you go fight Plow Horse you Coward?
He’s calling you out, Cowardly Gabby.
Plow Horse
JUNE 22, 2023 AT 8:33 PM
Gabby: I didn’t use the term “white guy.” The CEO of Ocean Gate used the term white guy. I suppose that reading comprehension isn’t one of your strengths. But since you brought my wife into it, something that you would never do if we met face to face, let’s meet up Mr. keyboard tough guy or are you going to chickensh*t out like you normally do. I work out at a boxing gym in Pasadena, CA. Name a date and time and I will make a reservation.
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I am calling you out pussy boy…come fight me or STFU…..please bring horse plow with you….look at you, you sorry excuse of a man….drool running off the chin soiled diaper no coin no pussy no life but trolling a blog numerous sock puppets to feel better about the empty life you live….PATHETIC!
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Cowardly Gabby runs from the challenge from Pol Horse and defends the Biden Crime Family!
Cowardly Gabby is a wimp!
Plow Horse
JUNE 22, 2023 AT 9:57 PM
Gabby:
You have offended my wife, my mother and my father. All sexual inferences. I let the first two go because they are both deceased but not my wife. You are the one who offended my family, not visa versa. I have never brought your wife or parents into anything. It is therefore my call – boxing gym in Pasadena CA, Mr. tough guy. Give me a date and I will make the arrangements. Stop being a chickensh*t.
And nobody believes you are friends with Dana White. If you ever read the news, he is a staunch conservative who left the country during Covid so that the Dems. couldn’t shut down UFC. He wouldn’t allow a pussy leftist like yourself anywhere near his octagon. Rummaging the dumpster outside of the premises for plastic bottles redeemable for 20 cents doesn’t mean you know Dana White you leftist, racist, pussy.
Give me available dates.
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why are you running …..put your fists behind your words…show me you have some balls pussy boy….bring plow, I never said I would not rumble with the old guy…
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You ran like the yellow belly coward you are when Plow Horse said put up or shut up, Cowardly Gabby!
Fake Gabby ducks when called out!
Plow Horse
JUNE 22, 2023 AT 10:23 PM
Gabby is the biggest pussy on this blog.
Still waiting for dates, Mr. keyboard tough guy.
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You ran like the yellow-belly coward you are when I said put up or shut up, Cowardly fake Gabby!
Fake Gabby ducks when called out!….
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Run, Cowardly Gabby, run, you clucking chicken!
Plow Horse
JUNE 22, 2023 AT 10:23 PM
Gabby is the biggest pussy on this blog.
Still waiting for dates, Mr. keyboard tough guy.
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when are we meeting up , pussy boy….you’re the one who fails to address your cowardness…man up and prove you have some balls…bring plow with you and stop saying I am running when it’s obvious you’re the runner, pussy boy
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Showing for about the 100th time that she’s too stupid to comprehend that you get what you give. She’s so freakin’ stupid! That’s why most on the blog call her the Village Idiot.
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I have a question. . .why do you want them to be silent? Just move on and your blood pressure will thank you as well as your heart. Your doctor on the other hand. . . .
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When will Cowardly Gabby box Plow Horse?
Plow Horse
JUNE 23, 2023 AT 3:24 AM
Chickensh*t Gabby: When you insult my wife and mother you challenge me. Say to my face the garbage you say on this board Mr. keyboard tough guy. If you think I am an old man who you can beat up, let’s set a date at the Pasadena boxing gym. C’mon be a man.
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Scott puts out a great, provocative product Sunday-Thursday…but….it’s nice when he goes mellow on Fridays….
#WishWeCouldDoTheSame….
#ButThat’sNotWhoWeAre…
#BadBoysForever
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MG, I always respect your opinions you always make valid points. I have blessed and safe holiday my friends.
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Ditto, my friend!
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Why don’t you two get a room..
Sheesh
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Are you serious, M.G. is a complete nobody living on the sand which is his brain
matter. Opinions are worthless to anyone who has a caring soul in his body!
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You are the complete nobody, preachy libtard loser.
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I recently read that Roger Vadim and Bridget Bardot visited USC in the ’60’s. I think that’s sufficient justification for Scott running a few photos of Bridget…..
#Well,ITried…
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Who needs an excuse for Bridget? Seriously?
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I think Pudly has a point. Scott showed Jaime Lee Curtis and she has no connection to USC. Why this photo, not her best. Show the one from True Lies with the black dress and cleavage.
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There’s always a USC connection!
https://annenberg.usc.edu/events/class-guest-speakers/conversation-jamie-lee-curtis
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That picture of an SC back trying to find a hole to run through
with 2 bruins blocking the way and a 3rd mean one on his way
is remindful of how these running backs last maybe 4-years in the pros
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Kent McCord (birth name Kent McWhirter) was going to be Jack Webb’s partner in a 3rd iteration of Dragnet, planned to air starting in 1983. But Webb suffered a massive heart attack right before Christmas 1982 and the project was scrubbed.
Over at the “What is a Trojan” post, I offered up the following:
John Robinson is a Trojan, in spite of the shabby treatment he got at the end of his second tenure as HC.
Marv Goux is a Trojan.
The elder Papadakis’ are Trojans.
Dr. Jerry Buss is a Trojan.
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But is OJ a Trojan?
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100% MY FRIEND !!
RUN OJ RUN !!😇😇😇😇😇😇
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fuckin A right OJ is a Trojan. always has been.
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Buss is a Trojan because he left his wife after he bought the Lakers?
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CHECK OUT BARDOT IN
AND GOD CREATED WOMAN !!
BARDOT IS THE NUMBER ONE SEX KITTEN 🐈⬛ OF ALL TIME IN MY 📖 📕 📚 BOOK !!
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Zee Bardot held some sway over me as well, George, but the French women on the whole were a slight disappointment,
and “Run, Forrest, Run,” is not comparative to OJ’s run
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Just think, Roger Vadim was married to or had affairs with Bardot, Catherine Deneuve and Jane Fonda when they were in their primes.
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fuck dude…how fucking old are you…I see why you want to avoid me…I might snap you in half…ouch!
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Fake Gabby is afraid of Plow Share!
Plow Horse
JUNE 22, 2023 AT 10:23 PM
Gabby is the biggest pussy on this blog.
Still waiting for dates, Mr. keyboard tough guy.
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What the fuck is a plow share? is that the object you park between your ass cheeks and start to gyrate till the pimple pops….ouch!
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A Plow Horse is when you get humiliated before the world, Cowardly Gabby!
Plow Horse
JUNE 23, 2023 AT 3:24 AM
Chickensh*t Gabby: When you insult my wife and mother you challenge me. Say to my face the garbage you say on this board Mr. keyboard tough guy. If you think I am an old man who you can beat up, let’s set a date at the Pasadena boxing gym. C’mon be a man.
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BARDOT CAME TO MY PAD ONE DAY IN 1956 WANTING TO USE MY SNAKE!!👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿
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I don’t get why Gypsy Boots is anointed a Trojan but the guy who won a Rose Bowl isn’t? I meant Larry Smith you political freaks!!! Well, Clay counts too . . .barely.
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Larry Smith was the hired help and didn’t “get” SC. He imploded after 1990 and his ending was an embarrassment to all.
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LOL. Clown U, #23, got rolled by Fresno St. That loser, bozo FB debacle was so damn, delicious to witness. I was still drinking then and I tied on a biggie that night, celebrating the laughable, bozo FB, humiliation.
Remember Clownsters, before the game the arrogant, two-bit bozos were wondering OUT LOUD, where Fresno St. was located.
Turns out Toejams, Fresno State was in the bozo end zone all night long. I bet Dear Pissley disappeared for a couple of years.
Cue: Choka, choka, choka, choka on!
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I am so tempted to make you go straight into meltdown mode but I realized, you have to cheer for a school that has to employ Chip Kelly. Now you can use the SCOTUS decision as an excuse as to why no players with first round talent will play for UCLA.
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So. Many. Tough. Guys.
Lighten up, Francis.
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The next President of the US- will be?
Robert Kennedy Jr.
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put down your crack pipe
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So …we shall see who is correct..
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