Oregon received a commitment from its highest-rated recruit ever per the 247Sports composite rankings, when wide receiver Dakorien Moore of Duncanville, Texas, committed yesterday.
Let’s see if the Ducks can do something even more impressive: Get Moore to honor his commitment.
- And now for some history:
- History often repeats itself. USC star offensive/defensive lineman Charley Ane decided to skip his final season of eligibility to turn pro in 1953, where he was drafted by the defending champion Detroit Lions. Ane had just been a key player on USC’s Rose Bowl championship team.
In those days, it was legal for the Lions to fly out to Los Angeles and meet with Ane before he decided to go pro.
“My wife and baby come first, so I signed with the Lions,” Ane said.
Ane reportedly signed a contract worth $7,000. Naturally, USC coach Jess Hill was disappointed, in his own understated way.
“We certainly will miss Charley because he is a fine player,” Hill said. “Undoubtedly, he had a chance to make All-American, which is certainly an honor for any boy.”
Ane won two NFL titles with the Lions and was twice named to the Pro Bowl.
- When USC played UCLA in rugby in 1963, it was televised by Channel 11 with Bill Welsh doing play-by-play.
My favorite Welsh story is that when he did USC football games in the early 1960’s, he kept pronouncing QB Pete Beathard’s last name as “Beat-hard” and Beathard’s family finally had to complain to get him to pronounce it correctly.
- A lot of people think USC women’s basketball came of age when Cheryl Miller decided to become a Trojan but it was really the arrival of the McGee twins two years earlier that transformed the program.
Here is Pam McGee (right) during her freshman season in 1981 facing UCLA. The other Trojan pictured is Juliette Robinson.
USC never won a national title in women’s basketball without Pam and Paula McGee. A little-remembered fact is Long Beach State All-American/Olympian Ed Ratleff was the assistant coach for the 1980-81 season.
- Did you know when the Harbor Freeway was planned in 1948, it originally dissected Fraternity Row and threatened to prevent a planned expansion of the USC campus to Vermont Ave.
The route was changed following complaints at public hearings. USC and the Coliseum also complained about the Exposition Blvd. off ramp being insufficient for traffic and feared bottle-necks would create jams on the freeway, especially for football games.
USC and Coliseum officials proposed a two-lane tunnel running parallel with Exposition, and underneath Flower and Figueroa streets. It would empty USC and Coliseum traffic out into Exposition Blvd.
No one wanted to pay for the tunnel, however, and it never got built.
BANQUETS, BEAUTY QUEENS AND LUNCHEONS
- Ayleen Ito, 18, is crowned as queen of 27th annual American Legion Fourth of July fireworks show at the Coliseum in 1959 by Yukio Hasumi, consul-general of Japan in Los Angeles.
Hasumi then attended the fireworks show with Vice President Richard Nixon and his 11-year-old daughter, Julie.
USC PICTURE OF THE DAY
- Actor Charlton Heston gets his face wiped by Darlene Hard, the No. 1-ranked U.S. women’s tennis player at the time, durng the grand opening of the Lake Encino Racquet Club on Dec. 19, 1963.
They played an exhibition doubles match against Billie Jean Moffitt (pre-King) and Robert Stack.
Hard won the U.S. Open twice and French Open once. She lost a historic singles’ final match at Wimbledon in 1957 to Althea Gibson then immediately paired with Gibson to win the doubles’ title.
She excelled at doubles, where she won 18 major doubles’ titles, including seven titles at Wimbledon. She became a mentor to Billie Jean King, when King was a teen-ager.
“She was the best doubles player of her generation,” King said.
I’m running the photo because Hard worked at USC for 45 years in the student publications office and the vast majority of students who worked for the Daily Trojan student newspaper and El Rodeo yearbook had no idea of her illustrious athletic background.
PICTURE OF THE DAY
Actress Eva Marie Saint turned 100 yesterday.
InsideUSC with Scott Wolf 
GEORGE — WHAT DO YOU THINK OF EVA MARIE SAINT? IN MY OPINION SHE WAS PRETTY SPECTACULAR IN “ON THE WATERFRONT” WITH BRANDO….
#SHE MIGHT BE A BIT OLD FOR YOU, THOUGH….
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Leave GT alone!……He’s busy punching the peach and doesn’t have time to waste on you limp-dics……
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I thought Eva Marie was impressive in North by Northwest too, MG. Hitchcock loved his blondes and generally chose very well. Trivia: Did you know that the 007 series was based on Cary Grant’s character in North by Northwest but Grant turned down the role. Not enough money. Sean Connery was cheaper than Grant and therefore got the part.
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Agreed. North by Northwest might be her best role, in fact. [She was perfect in The Player, too].
[Have you noticed how much Hitchcock loved placing women in the role of “compromised/bad girls with hearts of gold”? Notorious, Marnie, Vertigo, North by Northwest]?
#It’sGonnaBeHardToReplaceDanielCraigAsBond
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She has some jacked-up teeth…….is she related to you….just asking
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I think it is the picture Gabby. In other photos her teeth look fine. But even if she had a flaw it would not matter. Most beautiful women have a flaw if you look closely enough and the flaw typically adds to their beauty.
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Nice column!
Thanks for hanging in there with all us bad boys till Fall Practice, Scott! It’s just around the corner. Once it starts we all promise to be good.
#Right,Everybody?
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This blog is a clown show and you limp-dics will be treated appropriately.
go service sola and quit being a pest
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That picture above might be of YUCLA’s quarterback Dennis Dummit either losing a heartbreaker to SC in 1969 or administering a heart-stomper on Troy in 1970
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The only thing better than talking about women’s SC basketball championships is if it were the men’s
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Those 3 SC Hawaiian players with hats and ukelele are remindful of the old saying, ‘Birds of a feather flock together”
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The vicious tabloids today would compare Eva Marie Saint’s Under-40 picture with what she looks like today as if anybody’s looks improve with age
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You know Texas/Texas A&M made offers to this hot-shot Texas receiver but the Ducks win out again, which begs the question how much is Oregon paying these recruits?
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Very pretty Japanese queen of the American Legion Fireworks show. Wonder what the story is behind the American Legion, Japanese consulate and Nixon. Some sort of good will gesture I suppose. Only American would treat their former enemies in such a way. The French still speak poorly of the Germans.
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Interesting how rugby, where the participants wear no padding or headgear. became American football where padding and hard plastic helmets became a necessity
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Again, it is fascinating how Wolf armed with such an impressive array of SC history can be so negative about his alma mater
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MG claims he saw wolf walking on water
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Bitin: How do you handle all this negative stuff said about us?
Stump: Easy, I just read the stuff about you
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-Nice friendly shot of Charlton Heston, married to the same woman for 64 years; he was a rabid gun advocate but apparently he was able to keep his own ‘pistol’ in his pants
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Biden was out on the stump today slapping trump around like a pinata….epic beatdown……still laughing my a$$ off
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Uncle Phil will make sure that he honors his commitment. Money is no factor. Whatever it takes.
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Uncle Phil: The George Soros of college football…..
#”MeLikeToBuyThings”
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Soros – The guy who funds the political campaigns of DAs as long as they promise not to enforce the laws. The number one Democratic fundraiser along with Samuel Bankman-Fried, the Ponsi scheme artist. Says a lot about the Democratic party. Gee, I wonder why they lost the endorsement of the police unions and border patrol.
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Marxists [we have a couple here] operate on a concept central to Milton’s “Paradise Lost”:
“I exist for chaos”
—Satan
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FUC-ING LAME!……go find something productive to do and quit being a pest
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Gabb’s Day: Wake up, check to see if carboard home is still standing, trash John Milton, fall back to sleep until jogged awake by incoming email…..
#….FelineReplyComingUp
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-The Maggots here were out in force yesterday vindictively accusing me of stomping on of all things the ‘Declaration of Independence’ when the only stomping I was doing was on their boring repetitious Stump bandwagon cliches. It is just so easy to blast both the Maggots and Libtards
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Easy to write maybe……
#ButIncreasinglySadToRead
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And his statements are increasingly untrue MG. There were 27 posts on the 4th of July before Sparrow weighed in and none of them related to politics. “The I was stomping on the Trump bandwagon cliche” is a total falsehood. Most of the comments related to recruiting and saying happy 4th to the members. Then Sparrow says:
“Maggots and Libtards are so busy congratulating and patting their kind on the back for supposedly being right that nothing gets done.”
Followed by:
“It is July 4 not ‘Political Ambush Day,’ a time to unite and recall how brave Americans won us the freedom to be different and to disagree.”
What cliche? What political ambush? And in Sparrow’s world if you ask him to take a position and support it with facts, you are infringing on “his freedom to disagree.” No, we are asking you to exercise a little conviction and take a stand on the issues of the day which are existential rather than attack those who do.
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I never thought I would say this …cuz I respect John enormously as a person….but…. he insists on voicing opinions on the one thing he isn’t well versed in: modern American politics. I’m not sure where he gets his information but he seems out of touch on the issues of the day….. which is sad.
#OneNeverEnjoysSeeingAFriendGetThisFarOffTrack
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I never thought I would say this …cuz I use to respect MG enormously as a person….but…. he insists on voicing opinions on the one thing he isn’t well versed in: modern American politics. I’m not sure where he gets his information(newsmax?) but he seems out of touch on the issues of the day….. which is sad.
#OneEnjoysSeeingALimpDicGetThisFarOffTrack
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Good night get a life
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look in the mirror…..that works both ways…
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Nothing riles up a Maggot or Libtard more than to make fun of them
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Not exactly….
#NumberOne”Riling”Factor:VotersDisassociatedFromReality…
#…WhoRefuseToKeepUpW/Issues….
#…ButInsistOnOfferingUndifferentiatedMusings
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ABC 7 is showing Stephanopoulos interview of Biden 3:30 pm today 5th July.
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Ol’ Joe looked as if he was dreaming of going to bed as he watched the ‘best I’ve ever seen’ D.C. fireworks show
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I believe it’s only highlights during ABC World News Tonight at both 3:30 and 6:30. The entire TAPED & EDITED “interview” is at 8 pm. As if that can erase what the entire world saw last Thursday night!! (What people with a brain have known since before the election.)
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Elections are not won or lost in 90 minutes….dumba$$
there you have it folks, the dumbest man on the internet proves it again…
wait for it, he’ll respond back with another example of his buffoonary…..you can’t make this $hit up ……the guy is really that fuc’ed up between the ears
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Laughing at morons who are trying to claim it was just “one bad night”.
That’s why she’s the Blog Dunce/Village Idiot/Goober/Skunk at the Picnic/Cowardly Gabby & so many others given by various blog members.
More lies from her in 3, 2, 1….
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Joe is “proud to the be the first black woman to serve with a black President”!! ROTFLMAO!!
But according to idiots like our buddy, it was “just one bad night”! LMAO!!!
https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-809112
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Okay…2 bad nights….. wait, make that 3 or 4….. no, 7….
#[EveryNightWillBeABadNight…TillTheLASTNight]……
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Joe’s hidden from unscripted questions throughout his entire Presidency, MG, and the Blog Dunce/Village Idiot wants to pretend it’s about 90 minutes! LMFAO!
Too stupid to realize it’s about what those 90 minutes exposed…Joe’s dementia. Something smart people already knew.
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THIS IS ABOUT KEEPING THE SELF-PROCLAIMED DICTATOR OUT OF THE WH…….we already saw all the damage he caused during his one and only term………reasonable people don’t elect criminals….
34 felonies, enough said!
go get that outhouse serviced and quit being a pest……
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George: “Have you re-watched the debate?”
Joe: “I don’t think I did. No.”
It was one week ago and he can’t remember if he watched it!!! LMAO
Yeah, it’s just about “90 minutes”!! What a dumbass.
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Bitin: This guy de Tocqueville got it right when he said ‘In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships”
Stump: I don’t hate you, much
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Well, so far the Democratic machine has tried to bankrupt Trump. Over 500 million in civil judgments. All three lawsuits were meritless. Now they are trying to jail him to keep him from running. Four phony criminal cases. All of them are now falling apart. I would be pissed off at Biden if I were Trump. Crooked Joe has established a new precedent – If you can’t beat your opponent, have him arrested and bankrupt him and then claim he is a threat to democracy.
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Here’s the only reality that’s correct, trump is running from the law and Biden is running the country.
stop the whining and crying….it’s a back look for an 80-year-old hunchback…..
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HEY MICHAEL. SHE IS A LIVING SAINT. HEY SO CAL. GABBY. JOHN. FIGHT ON !!!!!!!
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What’s up, George?…..Thanks for the shoutout. These limp-dics are jealous of the erection you still have into your 90s…..Stay hard and stay engaged with us
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Gab hates limp dics ….and yet would lay down his life for Biden…
#Doesn’tAddUp….FewThingsDoInGab’sWorld
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HEY THANX GABBY. I ENJOY THE GOODFIGHT YOU PUT UP. ALWAYS LOVE IT. FIGHT ON !!
AND HI TO THE HORSE TOO.
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GEORGE — GREAT TO HEAR FROM YOU! AS YOU CAN SEE YOUR BROTHERS ARE ALL ENGAGED, ONCE AGAIN, IN THE GOOD FIGHT! [I RELUCTANTLY AGREE WITH WHAT YOU SAID ON THE PHONE: GABBY WILL KEEP ON FIGHTING NO MATTER WHAT. HE NEVER GIVES UP. HE IS ….AND ALWAYS WILL BE….OUR “LOYAL OPPOSITION”]!
#WISH WE COULD HIM OVER……BUT THAT WILL NEVER BE!
#TAKE CARE,GOOD FRIEND. YOU ARE MY HERO!
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True, MG. She never has and never will care how stupid she makes herself look. So the moronic posts will continue no matter what.
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Simple question…..is anyone holding a gun to your head forcing you to read my comments…..So, you’re actually looking like a dumba$$ for reading them………..I’d like to point out that there’s a solution to your problem., DON’T FUC-ING READ THEM……ARE YOU REALLY THAT DAMAGED BETWEEN THE EARS……YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU’RE THE LITTLE KID WHO KEEPS TOUCHING THE HOT STOVE…..KNUCKLEHEAD!
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AGAIN too stupid to take her own advice! LMAO
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Are we back to discussing women, George, what is wrong with you, don’t you know this is a political blog where each side accuses the other of being no smarter than a normal ape?
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Fashion island killers charged with murder and eligible for death penalty. They don’t F around in Newport Beach.
https://x.com/abc7/status/1809324725870473670?s=46
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get up to speed …..it’s been 18 years since Califoria executed anyone….nice try!
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…living on death row…waiting for the moratorium to end [which it will during these defendants’ lifetimes] …. isn’t gonna be a cakewalk…..
#GoodForNewport
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Newport Beach and Huntington Beach are a beachhead for responsible law enforcement and governance in California. Otherwise, the state is going to sh*t!
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