USC ended up with 15 Olympic medals, which was the most of any Big Ten school But . . . if USC was still in the Pac-12, it would have been dwarfed by Stanford, which won 39 medals.

Four years ago, Stanford won 26 medals and USC 21. I like to harp on swimming. Cardinal alumni Torri Huske and Regan Smith won five medals while Katie Ledecky won four in Paris. USC did not win a swimming medal.

Of Stanford’s 39 overall medals, 17 came from the women’s swimming and diving program.

• Carson Palmer is helping coach the Santa Margarita High School freshman team. His son, Fletcher, is a quarterback.

• Lane Kiffin’s son, Knox, is a freshman QB at Palos Verdes High School.

• Former USC basketball coach Andy Enfield is currently in Honolulu, watching his daughter, Lily, play in a volleyball tournament. She attends Highland Park High School in Dallas. It is 1.4 miles from SMU.

That’s a lot shorter commute than Enfield had from Manhattan Beach to USC. Of course, we can compare the weather between Dallas and Southern California too. That’s a lopsided win for Southern California.

• And now for some history:

• USC baseball coach Rod Dedeaux used to have a ritual of making his first-year players wear a red wig before a game. Dedeaux used to keep this picture of himself wearing the wig on the mantel of his house in Glendale with a caption “Baseball coach at California.”

That shows how bitter the rivalry with Cal used to be.

“I’ve had that wig since my days at Hollywood High and I’ve had a million dollars worth of laughs with that,” Dedeaux said.

•  John McKay told Marlin McKeever he saved his job after the game. USC went 4-6 in 1960, which was McKay’s first season. The victory was also significant because Don Clark, McKay’s predecessor, had failed to beat UCLA in three meetings.

The victory was also significant because Don Clark, McKay’s predecessor, had failed to beat UCLA in three meetings.

• What building is this? It’s Heritage Hall. Or at least a 1955 rendering of Heritage Hall, which had a projected cost of $375,000 and a tower that was to be the highest point on campus.

• The USC ticket office used to gladly release ticket sales information under legendary manager John Morley? In 1973, USC said it had 50,000 season-ticket holders. What do you think that answer would be today?
• How was Julie’s restaurant in the 1950’s? Here’s one what one USC alum told me:

“I remember going to Julie’s (restaurant) in the late 50’s and seeing (former USC assistant coach) Al Davis diagramming plays on cocktail napkins. And President (Norman) Topping was there every night too.

“You just expected to see people there. On Thursday nights, all the students would go and there’d be a long line to get in.

“This was before John McKay, but he held court there every night too after he got promoted to head coach, sometimes with Topping, summoning coaches or media or athletic dept. employees to his booth if he wanted to talk to them.”

PICTURE OF THE WEEK

USC linebackers Delmar Chesley and Scott Ross try to recover a fumble vs. Oklahoma in 1989.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Did you know Jay Bilas was in an episode of the White Shadow?