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USC Saturday Buzz: Will You Be Able To Watch Baseball Game?

The USC-St. Mary’s baseball game at 6 p.m. will be on ESPN+ (unfortunately), which means many fans will not get it. ESPNU is doing the Oregon State-TCU game at 3 p.m.

USC is expected to start sophomore left-hander Mason Edwards (2-0, 3.62 ERA) against St. Mary’s right-hander John Damozonio (4-2, 6.10 ERA).

  • Five-star tight end Mark Bowman from Mater Dei High School committed to USC on Friday.
  • Eric Musselman has hired former NBA player Earl Boykins as an assistant coach. It’s an interesting hire because Boykins’ only college coaching experience is four years at UTEP.

He was the director of student-athlete development at Arkansas when Musselman was there but he doesn’t have any local ties, which at one point Musselman thought was important.

Between Musselman and the 5-foot-5 Boykins, the coaches can have some good pickup games.

38 thoughts on “USC Saturday Buzz: Will You Be Able To Watch Baseball Game?”

  1. Fun Dodgers-Yankees game last night with Judge starting it off by hitting a home run and then ‘O’ answering with one of his own.

    Depressedly down 5-2 in the 6th inning the world-champions rallied for 4 runs to take the lead. A baseball rally is arguably the most exciting ‘moment’ in all of sports because the fans’ exhilaration lasts for minutes as the rally continues

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  2. I am sure SC’s Wiley is completely aware of the significance to Trojan-Irish fans of the SC-Notre Dame annual game

    But he and other like-thinkers have reasoned that a National Championwhip is easier to attain by dumping the SC-ND game

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    1. KAM: You are correct, Sir Lincoln of Riley wants to end the USC-ND rivalry.

      DON: The reason is that Sir Lincoln of Riley expects to lose to Notre Dame.

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      1. Lincoln: “No —that’s absolutely not the reason….. I just think beating Notre Dame isn’t important to our fans.”

        #Yeah,Right

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      1. Very, funny Gabby.

        #btw,DuceDroppedHisFirstBallInEveryGameHePlayedIn…

        #SOMETIMESHeRedeemedHimselfWithABigPlayLater

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      2. Riley’s flag football offense doesn’t use TE’s, why the kid wants to play at USC is a wonder, much have gotten a great NIL deal

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    2. Bowman is an incredible athlete. 6’5″ tall, weighs 225 lbs., runs a 4.6 and has a 36″ vertical jump. Looks fast in a uniform, cuts well, great hands and probably his most surprising attribute is blocking. He is tough. Will likely start as a true Freshman. Riley needs to implement a two tight end set, run the ball more, and find this kid in the passing game.

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  4. ND wants to keep the SC rivalry going, and why not– the Irish win 2 out of 3 on their field and half the games in Los Angeles

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    1. KAM: The Rah Rah Nine Layer Dip Fans accept mediocrity.

      DON: So sad that they have surrendered to the Irish- “We admit you are superior to us- please don’t beat us any more!”

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    2. To your point, John…… Notre Dame never whined about wanting to end the rivalry during the McKay or Carroll years…. Lincoln might think about that…

      #PlayOn

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  5. Perhaps there is a middle-ground that would appease Wiley. How about if we keep the SC-ND game in, but it doesn’t count in the standings

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  6. Can you imagine the 5-foot-5 ex-NBA player Boykins being asked by a stranger what he did for a living?

    For example, “No, really man, I played in the NBA. no one ever believes me”

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    1. Scott never misses an opportunity:

      “Between Musselman and the 5-foot-5 Boykins, the coaches can have some good pickup games.”

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  7. Nice that SC football seems to be bringing in more local ‘products,’ but until these kids put on the cardinal-and-gold, it’s best to hold off on getting overly excited.

    Speaking of ‘college loyalty,’ one wonders if the new vagabond ucla quarterback might try to re-negotiate his bruins’ contract at halftime of some game–“Pay me double or I’m not coming out for the 2nd half”

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    1. Re first paragraph: “Overly excited!” “Overly excited!” Today’s theme?

      Re second paragraph: It may happen [but it might actually transpire way before November’s USC game]…..

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      1. KAM: Speaking Of Overly Excited..Mayhem Erupts at California High School Track and Field Championships as Boy Destroys His Female ‘Rivals’ During Prelims: Chaos broke out at the California high school track and field championships on Friday as a boy pretending to be a girl stormed ahead of his ‘competitors’, with at least one person arrested.

        As The Daily Mail reported, several LGBTQ activists and women’s rights protesters attended the event in Clovis when at least one fight erupted while the teen athletes were competing. Unsurprisingly, the leftist was the aggressor.

        Fox News confirmed via the Clovis Police Department that the person arrested during the incident was an LGBTQ activist. The individual is accused of shattering a car window with a flag pole.

        DON:  California’s Governor Mimbo and other blue states have decided to defy my order and continue to allow men to compete against women.

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  8. KAM: Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) dropped another piece of disturbing news on Friday night, revealing that a whistleblower told him that Senile Joe Biden was so brain-dead that he could not find his way out of his own closet.

    “Listen, I’ll tell you something I haven’t said before because it came from a secret service whistleblower this past year,” Hawley said. “This secret service whistleblower was actually assigned to Biden, and he told me Biden used to get lost in his closet in the mornings in the White House.”

    “The guy, literally stumbling around in the White House residence, couldn’t find his way out of his own closet,” he added.

    “This is outrageous. We were lied to.”

    DON: Senile Joe Biden is lost in the closet, while Timmy Walz needs to come out of the closet.

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    1. Tampon Tim Walz is the Democratic version of a “man’s man.” So is Chaz Bono. Doug Emhoff, Paul Pelosi, and Barack Obama are fine. Olympic Champion Caitlin Jenner is a bit too macho. Some accuse him of “toxic masculinity.”

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  9. KAM: So the caring pro-environment Senile Joe Biden Admin deliberately covered up the cancer risk in the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment?

    DON: They lied. They knew. And they let Americans breathe poisoned air to protect their narrative. This wasn’t incompetence — it was a cover-up. Every single one of them should be held accountable!

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  10. KAM: Ethan Hedges cracks 2 solo home runs and USC closes in on super regional berth.  Ethan Hedges hit two solo home runs and USC defeated Saint Mary’s 6-4 on Saturday night to reach the championship round of the Corvallis Regional.

    DON: USC (37-21) advances to the championship round, a win away from the super regionals. Saint Mary’s will play an elimination game against regional host Oregon State on Sunday with the winner needing to beat USC twice to win the double-elimination regional.

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      1. The city of NY needed that, given they were on their way to near bankruptcy…which could be a possibility for the city of angels, depending on how the Palisades fire lawsuits evolve…

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      2. Good point ’67! Devastated Los Angeles Homeowners LOSE by winning suits against the City — all dollars come out of the City’s Litigation Fund….paid for by the city’s homeowners through their property taxes…

        Leonard Cohen put it best: “Everybody know the game is fixed, the poor stay poor, the rich stay rich. Everybody knows.”

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  11. KAM: Major League Baseball Kicks Off Pride Month With A MASSIVE Strikeout with a tweet saying “Everybody’s Game” with a special MLB rainbow logo.

    DON:  Only LBGTQ people deserve a special logo? How does this say that baseball is ‘everyone’s game’? 

    Oh, that’s right, it doesn’t. I’m sure the Dodgers have The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence warming up in the bullpen.

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  12. KAM: Activists Judges have halted President Trump’s agenda at least 181+ times in just a 4 month span. That is a huge number. To give you that in percentage terms, in over 50% of Trump administration agenda has been halted at least temporarily.

    DON: Democrat Judicial Lawfare in this country is out of control.

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    1. …and circus chicken freak, Chief Justice Roberts, doesn’t want to step in and do his job as the constitutionally appointed federal court administrator….. cuz…. “people might riot”…….[direct quote from Roberts when he defended sidestepping the election fraud cases coming to the Supreme Court in 2020]….

      #ProfileInUn-Courage

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  13. KAM: This week has been a dream for the women-hating Democrats. Boys stole girls’ state titles, podium spots, or qualifying spots in California, Maine, Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota.

    DON: The Fake News and Democrats swear this isn’t actually happening.

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