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Saturday Buzz: USC Defense Will Be Stellar Today

USC’s passing defense will have its best Saturday of the season today. Guaranteed.

It will be a nice change of pace to see the defense dominate Bye U. today.

  • Lincoln Riley was at the Mater Dei-Orange Lutheran game Friday night. Assistant coaches Dennis Simmons and Trovon Reed were at Sierra Canyon-Serra. Reed is USC’s cornerbacks coach so I’ll need to write about him next week.
  • Tyran Stokes, the No. 1-ranked basketball player in the nation from Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, has USC among his four finalists with Kentucky, Kansas and Oregon. But I hear Kentucky and Kansas are the frontrunner.
  • This was an ad in the Daily Bruin student newspaper on Friday.

48 thoughts on “Saturday Buzz: USC Defense Will Be Stellar Today”

  1. KAM: UCLA should go the UCSB route, cut their losses and shut down their pathetic football “program”.

    DON: They can be the Georgetown of the West….basketball only.

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      1. KAM: Affirmative Action Athletic Director hire Dan Guerrero destroyed the UCLA fan base in 2015 when he quadrupled the price of season tickets and tens of thousands of loyal Bruin alumni gave up their season tickets. Now they have to offer free tickets to high school students or the place would be empty!

        DON: And once you sour you never sweeten. None of those UCLA alums will be coming back. They must go the UCSB route and cut their losses due to the incompetent rule of DEI poster children Chianti Dan and Martin Jarmond:https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/ucla-ad-faces-harsh-spotlight-amid-bruins-football-collapse/a7d3a8c5e303033dfa3a7b74lol

        Cowardly Gabby aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan, Tranny Bruin and Owns hardest hit!

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      2. “There are starving children in China right now! They’d be happy to eat that food you’re letting go to waste!”

        Don’t we all remember that line when we kids? LOL

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      3. “when we kids”……. more grammar issues, pathetic!

        80 year old senile hunch*back……must s u c k to be you.

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      4. LOL! Says the person makes those kinds of mistakes a dozen times a day. HILARIOUS!

        Nothing to do with grammar. Just paying more attention to the last of the GameDay picks than my typing.

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      5. HEY DUMB—-ASS…….. SO, IT’S OK IF YOU DO IT BECAUSE YOU HAVE A LAME EXCUSE, BUT IF OTHERS DO IT YOU’RE ON IT LIKE STNK ON S H I T.

        CONSTANTLY WHINING AND CRYING ABOUT THE SAME STUFF YOU’RE GUILTY OF, COMICAL. YOU HAVE SOME MAJOR ISSUES BETWEEN THE EARS.

        HYPOCRITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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      7. So Cal — I had to listen to that line from the nuns, the priests …AND… my parents…..

        #I’mSurePasadenaHeardItAtCatholicSchoolToo…

        #EveryTimeHeTriedToTossAnAppleOrOrangeIntoTheTrash

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      8. Imagine if Sister Mary Elephant gave our favorite poster a good whack on the hand or wrist every time she lied, as she did just above. Her rulers wouldn’t last a week!

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      9. Ha! I took great pride in all the paddles broken on my behind, So Cal……

        No ruler, paddle or even Irish hurling stick could stand up to my tailbone…

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      10. KAM: Cowardly Gabby is the last one to be lecturing about typos:

        Gabby

        June 26, 2025 at 11:24 pm

        Let me correct the lie I just posted above. 92% of the people who parished on Biden watch were anti-vaxxers.

        BAAAAAMMMM….. I JUST GAVE MYSELF A CROTCH KICK FOR LYING

        WAIT FOR IT, MY ALTER-EGO WILL DENY IT

        DON: What is “parished”?

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    1. ..Then you should be happy with what’ll transpire later today — UCLA’ll tear Penn State to ribbons…and leap into the Top Ten….

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      1. P. S.

        Speaking of Trump being in the majority, I’d be happy with where he’s heading on both the foreign and domestic fronts —IF —- he’d end all financing of the war in Ukraine & restrict deportations to those with felony records….

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      2. F U C K-ING LAME……

        SOLA NEEDS THE LONG-NOSE. HOPE THE STRAWBERRY KY IS WORKING FOR HER!

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      3. KAM: I’m shocked that Cowardly Gabby hasn’t made some disgusting comments about Mark Sanchez stabbing yet.

        DON: She must not know , living in that dumpster on 6th and Grand Ave. in Downtown LA LA Land.

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    2. Restrict deportation to only people with felonies records ?? WTF ? All illegals need to go NOW, I couldn’t care less if they’re ” upstanding ” illegals, OUT !

      DEI, deport every illegal.

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      1. Dear karma,

        Maybe you’ve never been involved in real politics — it’s about staging the surfacing of controversial issues — if you want to see the wrong people elected in the midterms [and Trump get impeached], you’re on the right track with that approach…

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      2. ONE OF YOUR TOP COMMENTS EVER!

        I am suprised!

        I think the BLUE-WAVE is coming……millions of people regret voting for him.

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      4. KAM: You also told us Kamala would be president you dolt.

        Remember this political post by Nostradamus Cowardly Gabby?

        Gabby

        November 6, 2024 at 12:04 am

        HARRIS WILL BE ELECTED PRESIDENT TONIGHT

        HOORAY FOR KAMALA

        DON: BWWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  4. KAM: Last night Wiley went to a high school game in Friday night traffic

    DON: I couldn’t do it- that sort of thing I leave to my assistants

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    1. If you follow USC’s recruiting articles, Riley helicopters to Friday games….sometimes slightly injuring high school students in the landing area …to whom he responds by handing out hundred dollar bills …

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    2. I thought you left for good, sad way to start my Saturday knowing fake gabby aka yoda aka the pseudo intellectual is back.

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      1. I can’t be sure….but my guess is: there is the “real” John ……. and the evil John [who is Sybil in thin disguise]…..

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  5. KAM: It’s ‘rah-rah’ time, except there is no SC football today

    DON: I needed a bit of a rest after that critical Illinois game; 2 weeks and Michigan should have me fiddling again

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  6. So SC spends millions on a midget basketball coach with a very checkered past when it comes to his temper. He’s really not recruited very well, his one top recruit almost killed himself in an auto accident then blew out his knee and will never play at SC. Missed on the local kid yesterday, will probably miss on this local kid, tell me again why was he hired ?

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    1. …..for the same superficial reasons Riley was hired……

      #…SinceMikeGarrettLeft,USCGoesForSplashHires…..

      #….”SmartChoicesAreForOtherSchools”

      —Pat Haden

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  9. Today really is a Big Day for USC football: We really need Michigan to beat Wisconsin if next week’s game is gonna mean anything…..

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  10. KAM: Former USC Star QB Mark Sanchez Stabbed, In Critical Condition!

    Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez was stabbed early Saturday morning in downtown Indianapolis and is currently hospitalized in stable condition, Fox Sports confirmed.

    Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers responded to a “disturbance in an alley” call around 12:30 a.m. Saturday, reporting one person had been stabbed and another was injured outside a pub near West Washington Street and North Senate Avenue, WTHR reports.

    The suspect has been detained, the outlet says.

    “Mark Sanchez was injured in Indianapolis on Saturday and is currently recovering in the hospital in stable condition,” Fox Sports said in a social media statement on Saturday afternoon. “We are deeply grateful to the medical team for their exceptional care and support. Our thoughts and prayers are with Mark, and we ask that everyone please respect his and his family’s privacy during this time.”

    DON: Sanchez, 38, was promptly transported to a local hospital, where he remains in critical condition. He was reportedly in Indianapolis for his role as a broadcaster with Fox Sports, where he was scheduled to call Sunday’s Colts vs. Raiders game at Lucas Oil Stadium.

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  12. KAM: Governor Mimbo’s $20 Min. Wage Has Now Nuked 20,000 Fast Food Jobs, Cost Remaining Workers Thousands in Lost Hours. Democratic California Gov. Mimbo promised just short of utopia when he signed California’s FAST Recovery Act.

    Two years later, the only thing raising the state’s minimum wage law for fast-food workers has accomplished is to kill jobs.

    The Employment Policies Institute found California has lost nearly 20,000 fast-food jobs since Newsom’s law took effect.

    That’s one-quarter of all fast-food job losses nationwide.

    This is what happens when Mainstream Moderate Democrat politicians prioritize virtue signaling over economic reality.

    Pizza Hut franchises laid off 1,200 delivery drivers to cut costs. Other chains like Mod Pizza and Foster’s Freeze closed their doors.

    Newsom’s mandate didn’t protect workers; it priced people out of jobs.

    “Newsom’s $20 wage has turned out to be nothing more than a boost to his own ego at the expense of fast food workers,” EPI’s Rebekah Paxton told the Washington Examiner.

    The governor celebrated the law for its supposed benefits at the time.

    Now, every lost job represents a family harmed by his state’s economic illiteracy.

    And even the “lucky” employees who kept their jobs are losing.

    EPI said restaurant workers lost 250 hours annually, or $4,000 under the old wage.

    That’s the cruel irony. Governor Mimbo promised “living wages,” but workers ended up with fewer hours and less income.

    The American Cornerstone Institute warned that the law punishes small businesses the hardest.

    They can’t absorb higher labor costs like multinational corporations. Instead, they fold, handing even more market share to the biggest players.

    The ACI said: “Unlike their multinational competitors, small businesses have a tougher time absorbing the increased costs of labor, leading to further consolidation of capital in the hands of the largest corporations. In the same manner, a state-wide minimum wage doesn’t make sense when applied uniformly across a state as big as California.”

    “The costs of living in somewhere like San Francisco, for example, are much higher than in the rural parts of the state, where one can live much more affordably. To force the businesses in both areas to adhere to the same wage rates does not make sense and exerts profound distortions on local economies.”

    This wasn’t about helping workers.

    This law was about central planning, photo ops, and Governor Mimbo’s ambition.

    Conservatives warned that this would happen, and we were right.

    Sadly, an “I told you so” won’t bring back jobs to the people who paid for another failed California experiment.

     DON: Mainstream Moderate Democrats don’t care how many poor workers and small businesses they destroy.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3831205/california-fast-food-wage-law-backfires/

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