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If It’s Friday, It’s Time For A USC Notes Column

USC spring football will go from March 25-April 26 with practices on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. All practices are closed to the public.

There will be no spring football game for the public to attend.

  • The transfer portal for basketball opens March 25 but Eric Musselman’s Trojans don’t even start playing in the College Basketball Crown Tournament until April 1.
  • Freshman football players will not be allowed to speak to the media during USC spring practice.
  • Bronny James had a career-high 17 points last night for the Lakers and was 7-10 from the field.
  • And now for some history:

Here’s a picture of the 1979 USC-UCLA game at the Coliseum. UCLA tight end Tim Wrightman is covered by USC linebacker Larry McGrew.

Sometimes, good things come from unexpected places. Last night, I posted a 1967 team photo. A reader has sent in a color photo (above) but more importantly, look at the back of the photo. It contains the scores from every game and the names of everyone in the photo.

This is an ad for the John McKay show but I’m running the picture for what it says at the bottom. If kids join the Jr. Trojan Huddle Club, they can “Meet Coach McKay Personally!”

You think Lincoln Riley would go for that?

Here’s a photo from the 1978 USC-UCLA game at Pauley Pavilion. No. 44 is former USC great Cliff Robinson. No. 30 is USC forward Darryl Smith. No. 31 for UCLA is Gig Sims.

USC played at Illinois in 1973. The Trojans flew to Chicago then took a small plane to Champaign-Urbana. One player said the landing in the small plane was the scariest moment of his life. That’s USC forward John Lambert (left) and guard Biff Burrell in the photo.

PICTURES OF THE DAY

It’s Raquel Welch from the 1969 film, “The Magic Christian.”

Ursula Andress celebrated her 89th birthday on Wednesday.

87 thoughts on “If It’s Friday, It’s Time For A USC Notes Column”

    1. I’m gonna have to get back to you on the Ursula photo, John….. haven’t made it past the Raquel one yet …..

      #TalkToYouAgainInAnother45-60Minutes

      #[ThankYou,Scott]

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      2. Arthritis has dramatically impacted your ability to jack—-ass

        It must suck to be you……twisted nut, dent in the head, no beaver due to locked knee…… what a mess!

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      3.  Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts and SCOTTLOVESTHEROOOOOTTÞand Manureman is mocked for her cowardice and obscenity.

        :Plow Horse

        February 3, 2025 at 2:27 am

        If there is one thing we can be certain of regarding Cowardly Gabby’s threats, he will never back them up. All talk, no walk – the blog pu**y

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      4. BACK THEM UP?….. YOU HAVE BEEN ASKED OVER 1K TIMES TO MEET UP…..DUMB—-A S S

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      7. Remember when Cowardly Gabby chickened out last August?

        Plow Horse

        August 31, 2024 AT 9:42PM

        I thought Gabby said a few days back that he was going to the USC marching band pep rally today at the Palms at 2:00 and wanted to “meet up” with Scott. Instead, he spent the day trolling the blog. Once again a threat followed by a no show. That’s our Cowardly Gabby. All talk, no walk.

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      8. Remember when Cowardly fake Gabby aka scott wolf chickened out last August?

        Plow Horse

        August 31, 2024 AT 9:42PM

        I thought fake Gabby said a few days back that he was going to the USC marching band pep rally today at the Palms at 2:00 and wanted to “meet up” with real gabby Instead, he spent the day trolling the blog. Once again a threat followed by a no show. That’s our Cowardly fake Gabby. All talk, no walk.

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      9. hey mg I agree Raquel and Ursula pictures are enough to bring an older gent to tears and get things well in hand 😜

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      10. Plow Horse

        February 3, 2025 at 2:47 am

        If there is one thing we can be certain of regarding Cowardly Gabby’s threats, he will never back them up. All talk, no walk – the blog pu**y!!!!

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  2. If you win National Championships fans of that school will remember you decades later, otherwise not. Cliff Robinson was one of the best SC basketball players ever

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      3. 67 —Sark was witty at the wrong times….and in the wrong state of mind… and at the wrong venues….

        #LotLikeKathy

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  5. If “Inside USC” had been around in 1967, what would Scottie have said about the 3-0 loss to Oregon State that year?

    “The best RB in the history of college football – running behind Ron Yary – couldn’t get into the end zone even once?”

    “25 yards passin. Is there a missing digit? Does McKay know that it isn’t illegal to throw more than 10 forward passes a game?”

    “Since when do Trojans get shut out by a bunch of Beavers?”

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      1. Ian Fleming had a knack for names — we can’t even recall one or two of them here without going straight to ‘moderation’…..

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      3. After hearing THAT name in Goldfinger [and getting a warm bubble bath feeling] , Gabby made an important life decision…..

        #….AndBecameKathy

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  7. Scott Wolf continued– McKay almost got fired before he lucked out with that 1962 National Championship, and what has he done since?– 5-years and nothing

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    1. KAM: 5 years sounds good after the last 2 decades of nothing.

      USC Only a brainless rah rah could compare the solid program John McKay build to the last 16 years of incompetency.

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  8. “Freshman not allowed to speak to the media during spring practice.”

    Why does the media even cover Spring practice. They can’t watch the practices, can’t interview the new players, and there is no Spring game. This is going to turn off the fans and donors. Jen Cohen needs to tell Riley that fans matter and he needs to open things up.

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  9. I believe recruits are allowed to watch the practices. Are parents of the current players allowed to watch? I assume so.

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      1. JOE THANKS YOU FOR THE FREE RENT

        MILLIONS REGRET VOTING FOR TRUMP……YOU HAVE BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS

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      2. True. He has so much blood on his hands…cuz he never starts wars…. like the honorable presidents before him….

        #GoodThinking

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      3. KAM:They’re BAAAAACK: NBC News Reports ‘The Bidens Want Back In’

        DON: How can we miss them if they won’t ever go away?

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      4. Jill: How can we keep the grift going, Joe, if we don’t get back in the fundraising game?

        Joe: Argonilahtz…bryutha…

        Jill: Exactly right, Joe, I’ll call the Big Donors & make all the necessary arrangements….

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      5. KAM: Did Senile Joe Biden have the authority to do something that is unthinkable — have open borders where millions of people poured into our country? Totally unvetted and totally unchecked and many of those people were criminals.

        DON: Senile Joe Biden allowed that to happen to our country and it’s really people that ran the country and the person that operated the autopen – I think we ought to find out who that was because I guess that who was the real president. When you ask me if we have the real authority – did Biden have the authority to allow millions of people to come into our country – many of these people hardened criminals… who have caused tremendous damage.”

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    1. KAM: AOC: “We need a Democratic Party that f a r t s harder for us!”

      🤣

      DON: Is this REALLY the best the Democrats have? Lmfao We may never lose an election again!

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  11. PORKY PIG: You mean you don’t exchange rude comments with each other?

    ROADRUNNER: To what end? We don’t speak the same language. Better to let them have their silly way and avoid them

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      1. Follow up note to John:

        Check out some of the things he’s said to Bugs…

        #AndIDon’tEvenWantToGetIntoStuffHeSaidToDaffy

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      2. Porky could teach Kathy a thing or two….

        Yes, he’s that “Dispickable”

        # [I don’t need a hashtag here …but now that I know it makes Cathy cry…..]

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      7. WHY ASK A FRAUD WHO WAS KNOCKED OUT BY HIS OWN HEAVY BAG……HE CLAIMS IT WAS ONLY A TWISTED NUT……TOOOO FUNNNNY!

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      8. Gabby — George was a better athlete than people gave him credit for [so was Joe, btw]. But George’s two main ‘gifts’ were (1) his Big Right Hand and (2) his knowledge of how to use it. When he returned to fighting after losing to Jimmy Young all he did was keep a guy at the end of his jab until he saw the opportunity to drop the Big Right on his chin. It wasn’t exactly pretty…but…it was economical…and it almost always worked.

        R.I.P., George

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    2. KAM: Trump Revokes Security Clearance of Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, and the Radical Leftist Cabal.

      DON: Imagine how drunk Kamala and Hitlery got last nght when they heard the news.

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      1. Kamala: .. Who Doezsh he think he izshh?!

        Hillary: If we can just get him into a prison cell (Epstein) or a commercial aircraft (Ron Brown) my team can take it from there….

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  12. KAM:THIS IS BRUTAL! California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom claimed on his podcast that no one in his office ever used the word “Latinx” to describe Latinos, so CNN aired a compilation of Newsom himself saying it REPEATEDLY.

    DON: Even Governor Mimbo’s side isn’t falling for his fake “unwokening.”

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  13. KAM: Trump says he will pay the astronauts who were stranded by Senile Joe for 9 months in outer space overtime out of his own pocket.

    DON: No one mentioned this. If I have to, I’ll pay it out of my own pocket, OK? I’ll get it for them. I like that.

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  14. Subtlety doesn’t reign here. The ‘Roadrunnner’ is aware that nearly half the “dialgue” on this blog relates to Cathy, as you all derisively call him.

    “To what end? Let them have their silly way and avoid them” suggests the ‘Roadrunner’ (which will fall on deaf ears)

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    1. KAM: How dare we derisively speak of your fellow Lib Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts and SCOTTLOVESTHEROOOOOTTÞ and Manureman?  Just because she posts obscene rants, impersonates other posters, doxxed our most beloved poster, intentionally misled a cancer patient and and posts animal d e f e c a t i o n videos here for the last 2 decades? How mean of us! She is the victim!

      DON: No, as long as she is on the Democrat team, John must support that psychotic freak.

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      1. Mocking Chuck [Cal 75] while he was in cancer treatment was an almost unforgiveable act. Chuck lived alone …the treatment robbed him of the use of his arms — to stand up after leaving a chair he had to gently roll to the ground and use a wall to climb to his feet. He really struggled at the end. No decent person would mock him.

        Note to John: I called Chuck. His phone has been disconnected.

        R.I.P., Chuck. You deserved better from your Inside USC “friends.”

        [George Tirebiter disagrees with almost all my political opinions —and I disagree with almost all of his —-but we respect each other…and I love that guy. He has taught me a lot. It can be done. Kathy —which is what she calls herself — just doesn’t want to go that route].

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      2. Cal was a racist limp—dic troll. Who was constantly talking s h i t about about minorities and making things up to fuel his agenda.

        I had zero respect for the sack of dung. The world is a better place without his racism.

        JUST MY OPINION!

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  15. KAM: As every comedian knows, even the great Groucho, that you can’t bludgeon the audience with one joke after another– you got ’em for 15-minutes and then you lose them

    DON: So how do you want to break this up, I know, the economy. Listen, everybody hates change especially if there is some temporary suffering involved. But this is all going to work out in the end. I have a Plan

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    1. KAM: America’s Toughest Democrat Governor, Maine’s Janet Mills, Just Folded Like A Cheap Lawn Chair

      DON: Not only did I win, again, but women athletes at all academic levels are now free to compete fairly again. And Democrats are now The Party of Misogyny.

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  16. Oh, I thought I had made an error in printing this, but that is the second time you Censored it. As the ‘Roadrunner’ would ask, “To what end?

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    1. KAM:Po-LIB-ico Astonished By Academia’s ‘Stunning Speed and Scope’ In Surrender to Trump

      DON: Ihad already taken the measure of the cowards running these institutions. They are all talk and no action, and their campus temperaments prove it. It didn’t take much to send them running, which again we have seen ever since October 7, 2023 — if not for years before that. They have proven themselves to be gutless chumps.

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      1. Kathy must have a short memory MG. She is never embarrassed by her past behavior. And since a short memory is a symptom of a learning disability, it makes sense.

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      1. … someday …when I have the time…. I’m gonna list the things Kathy has been wrong about…..

        #I’mGuessingTheListWillUseUpSoManyPages….

        #…NoOneWillEverReadTheWholeThing…

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      2. MIDDLE FINGER UP…… QUIT BEING A PEST……SOLA NEEDS A GOOD SERVICING…..

        PS……SHE LIKES IT WHEN YOU TELL LIES WHILE MOUNTED

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      4. and…. like a true professional…. she just keeps getting better…

        #OnlyAdvancedOldAgeWillSlowKathyDown….

        #UntilThatTime……

        #CountOnTheMistakesGettingWorse….

        #…AndTheLiesGettingBigger…

        #Until,Finally….

        #SheHasToPassTheTorchToATrainedMonkey

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