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Morning Buzz: What Does USC Have In Common With NBA All-Star Game?

Who played worse defense? The NBA All-Stars or USC? Was Alex Grinch in Indianapolis?

Speaking of USC’s defense, here’s a classic clip from Chris “Mad Dog” Russo that includes his consistent botching of Caleb Williams’ name. Kuh-leeb Williams.

  • LeBron James said Sunday at the NBA All-Star Game that it would be up to Bronny James whether he enters the NBA Draft.

“It’s up to him. It’s up to the kid,” LeBron James said. “Obviously we’re gonna go through the whole process. He’s still in season now, has the Pac-12 tournament coming up. . . . We’re gonna weigh our options, and we’re gonna let the kid make the decision.”

Does anyone see a scenario where Bronny returns to USC?

  • The USC baseball team is 0-3 after losing to BYU, Grand Canyon and Ohio State in Arizona over the weekend. But don’t worry, the Trojans’ reward is they get to play a home game Tuesday . . . at Loyola Marymount against UC San Diego.
  • Duce Robinson started one game and went 0 for 2.
  • Jedd the Fisch hired Luke Del Rio as an offensive analyst. That means the sons of Jack Del Rio, Bill Belichick and Pete Carroll are on his staff. You can bet Fisch will do everything in his power to get the fathers to show up and schmooze with them.

53 thoughts on “Morning Buzz: What Does USC Have In Common With NBA All-Star Game?”

      1. Wolf did have contacts back in the day when being more ‘open’
        but when a man is always negative he won’t have many buddies

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      2. Are you talking about the guy who has been living rent free between your ears for over three years. Joe is laughing his ass off.

        It must suck to be you!

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      4. Fortunately we don’t get the government we pay for (Will Rogers)

        I’d say it was about even from Wash thru Linc to ‘Bitin with ‘Strump in the wings, all about the same it’s more a matter of ‘degree’–
        how much “better” is one in such a complex job of being President?
        Except Truman who did not have to drop A-Bombs, let us never forget that the Soviet Union (today’s Russia) was striking Japan from the West, America squeezing on the East,
        Japan was ready to surrender and now the U.S. is forever feared
        for its sometimes reckless world-acts

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      5. Louis Zamperini would beg to differ. The Japanese Army had a policy to kill all the POWs if Allied Forces landed on Japanese home island.

        The truth about Japanese atrocities and the well known plans they had to slaughter not only every Allied P.O.W., but also the civilian men, women, and children held as internees is a the vivid and horrendous crime against humanity.

        Add to it the mass murder, rape, torture of millions of Chinese and Koreans in their war of naked aggression and then the the plan of the warlords to meet an Allied invasion of the Japanese homeland by committing national suicide by arming women, school children and old men – some armed with spears and clubs- and thousands of Kamakaze’s and you have solid reasons for dropping the atomic bombs.

        The Japanese got what they deserved. They were so far beyond the basic laws of decency and accepted rules of war that the U.S. and its allies had no choice.

        Even unrestricted submarine warfare, bombing cities and using the A-bomb were, sadly, jusitified if only to end the madness of the Japanese barbaric behavior.

        The way Japan was rehabilitated into a parliamentary democracy prooves U.S. intentions were not imperialistic or reckless”.

        As to war crimes, relatively few were executed – mostly higher ups- as U.S. policy was to rehabilitate Japan rather than mete out justice.

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      8. GT,

        This is my opinion in order as the greatest presidents:

        1. Washington: Started the country
        2. Lincoln: Saved the country
        3. Regan: Just because
        4. Trump: had peace, prosperity, enegery independent, and wanted to build the wall

        Worst presidents:
        1. Biden, typical worthless politician who screws everyone over
        2. Obama: When he said this is not a Christian country, then he is a liar and does not know American history
        3. Roosevelt: the depression could have been ended in a year or so, however, he let it linger until he got the US involved in WWII

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  2. 211-186 in the NBA Allstar game. There were more holes in both teams’ alleged ‘defense’ than were sustained by Bonnie & Clyde
    in their final shoot-out

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      2. The baseball AS game used to be a fun game to watch, not anymore. I remember on year when the players left leave the game early to fly on their personal jets to vaycay for a day or two, left the benches empty, MLB had to step in to stop that, can’t leave the game early anymore

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    2. Sparrow,

      My dad was stationed in Fairbanks Alaska during WWII. He was with the Army Air Corp. He said that if they had not used the bombs, Hiroshima and Nagaskia, that if the US had invaded, the US predicted 100,000 would have been killed. The Japanese at the time took no prisioners and killed everything in sight. I dont know if i would have been here without the bombing. My dad might have been in the invasion and he might have been killed in action. I look at it this way, yes the bombing was tough, however, in the long run it saved many lives. Thank you Sparrow.

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  4. LeBron James said Sunday that it would be up to Bronny James whether he enters the NBA Draft.
    “It’s up to him. It’s up to the kid,” LeBron James said. “Obviously we’re gonna go through the whole process. He’s still in season now, has the Pac-12 tournament coming up. . . . We’re gonna weigh our options, and we’re gonna let the kid make the decision.”

    Who in their right mind is going to draft this kid ? And he refers to his son as ” the kid ” ?

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  6. gotroy22 is the biggest loser in the history of the internets. Nowadays, even though he spends all day here, he’s totally afraid to even acknowledge his previous life.
    D.O.J. forever!

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    1. Talk about a coincidence- I mention Gabby’s sock puppet Frank Young yesterday and a day later he magically re-appears.

      Michael Guarino
      FEBRUARY 18, 2024 AT 1:06 AM
      The 2 Burning Questions of our time:
      Where is Tebow?
      Did he disappear at same time as Owns?

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      grabbbyy
      FEBRUARY 18, 2024 AT 3:14 PM
      And Frank Young also mysteriously vanished. They must have all been in the same plane that flew into the Bermuda Triangle, MG.

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  7. President’s Day, and not only Wash and Linc but recalling others
    such as poor Herbert Hoover, U.S. Prez 1929-1933, when America’s
    finances plunged off a cliff in ’29 and then 4 years and beyond of money misery. ‘Good Luck’ Hoover is what they should have nicknamed him, and jokes abounded such as my history teacher explaining, “Hoover was known to sleep 12 hours a day and some say the country would be better off if he slept another ’12’.
    He did get a damn dam named after him, later changed

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    1. You know little about Hoover as evidence of your smarmy remark right out of the demoncrat playbook. He saved both Europe and bolshevik Russia from complete starvation after the end of WWI. He was not a good president but a remarkably gifted humanitarian. He loathed FDR but was a close friend of Truman who brought him back from political exile after the end of WW2 to use his same skillset. He was a self-made man just as Trump has been. Funny how Prez Kool Daddio Barakska went from a queer state senator in CHI to owning that massive estate on Martha’s Vineyard with the usual insider skillset of greed and power.

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      1. Relax, ‘soviet, nobody was rendering a full biography on Hoover,
        just a little joke I recall,
        and why does everybody call me a democrat, my wife would laugh
        (although I’m not a Republican either)

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      3. That doesn’t prove anything.

        “We laugh because it’s funny.
        We laugh because it’s true.”
        – DeNiro as Capone in The Untouchables

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  8. Dwight Eisenhower, Ike, is a forgotten hero no matter your political persuasion, as he “ruled” from 1953 to 1961 when America arguably was in her prime, war’s over and everybody has a roof over their head,-times were safer, “I walked alone a half mile to Overland School in West L.A. straddling the railroad tracks at Age-5, a great start for a kid

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  9. And another wartime president Woodrow Wilson deserves a remembrance as prez from 1913 to 1921 leading the U.S. thru WWI from 1914-18

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      3. Now, now, I know you’re named in honor of our buddy, but I hope that is where the similarities end.

        Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt. A mistake, not a lie. 😉

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  10. Wilson was a racist….he re-introduced racial segregation in the federal govt…he was a rabid backer of the KKK….his arrogance overseas post WWI earned him the assessment by UK monarch George V after getting to know him he called Wilson… “…an odious man…”

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      1. By promoting the Ku Klux Klan and overseeing segregation of the federal workforce, the 28th president helped erase gains African Americans had made since Reconstruction.

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  11. I WILL GO WITH LINCOLN AS THE BEST FOR PRESERVING THE UNION

    THE WORST. PROBABLY ANDREW JOHNSON. THO A GOOD ARGUMENT COULD BE MADE FOR A LOT OF THEM

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    1. No, it goes to Buchanan who did nothing for over 4 months after the 1860 election as the union fell apart. LBJ is a close second who in a mere 5 years planted the seeds for the implosion of black families and singlehandedly decided to use Detroit as a test tube for his ‘Great Society’ diktats.

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      1. ‘soviet and Grabbbyy simultaneously called out ‘James Buchanan
        which is not a bad choice for being in last place (with others)

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  13. Although in Buchanan’s favor is that prior to being prez he was Secretary of State for many years, so he knew something about diplomacy, so the Civil War was arguably unavoidable

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    1. Buchanan did zero about the murder of 120 American men women and children carried out by orders from Brigham Young at Mountain Meadows,Utah on Spetember 11, 1857. Their blood still cries out for justice today.

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      2. Cherry picking incidents to prove a point is fruitless, and I will stand on the statement that Wilson lead the U.S. thru WWI in 1914-1918.
        I didn’t say the US was involved during all those years, but Wilson certainly was.
        But you can call me a liar Grabbbyy, I’m glad it makes you happy

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      3. You become a liar when you ignore history. The US didn’t declare war and my great uncle didn’t enlist in the US Army until 1917. He didn’t “lead” us through war when the Lusitania was torpedoed in 1915. He promised to keep us out of war in 1916.

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