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Notes: Famed Sports Photographer Peter Read Miller Passes Away

Peter Read Miller, a legendary sports photographer who spent more than 35 years at Sports Ilustrated, passed away over the weekend.

He was Class of 1969 USC graduate and took photos for the school yearbook, El Rodeo, as a student.

For decades he took photos of USC football, including several cover photos for SI like these:

This is his photo of Dennis Smith and Joey Browner from the 1980 USC-Notre Dame game.

  • So USC said Alijah Arenas would not play this week. As I wrote yesterday, Eric Musselman wanted him to play but sources said his family wanted him to wait.

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    1. Yes. Very good news. A three year starter. I thought he was gone when he didn’t play in the Alamo bowl.

      There are also rumors that USC is going after the special teams coordinator from Nebraska. He is considered the best in the country. If true, this is another indication that Riley, who has always maintained that he did not need a special teams coach, has lost the confidence of Jen Cohen and Chad Bowden.

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  3. KAM: Marcus Freeman is expected to remain the head coach at Notre Dame in 2026 despite interest from several NFL teams, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Freeman received an enhanced contract last month to stay at Notre Dame but has been linked to multiple high-profile NFL head coaching jobs in recent weeks. The Pittsburgh Steelers became the latest team with a coaching vacancy Tuesday when Mike Tomlin announced he was stepping down after 19 seasons in Pittsburgh.

    DON: Maybe the Steelers will take Riley Coyote?

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  4. KAM: “There was a big disconnect growing between Longstreet and the coaching staff, as far as what the quarterback situation what the look like in 2026 in the multiple meetings they had after the bowl game. Per sources, Jayden Maiava is set to make double in NIL compared to Longstreet, despite the staff saying it’s an open competition.https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/husan-longstreet-s-disconnect-with-usc-as-sec-program-emerges/ar-AA1U9xeZlol

    But the decision to enter the portal wasn’t about Longstreet asking for more money or fear of competition or him having to sit and wait for another year. He no longer felt USC was being honest with him. Longstreet was told there would be a competition but felt what he was being told did not match their actions. The trust was gone for Longstreet with USC was gone as the two sides were not seeing eye-to-eye, and he no longer saw his future in Los Angeles, sources close told me. 

    DON: “Longstreet doesn’t mind being the No. 2 quarterback, which is what he would have been at Oregon, with the growing expectation that Dante Moore returns to school or LSU, with Leavitt the likely starter. He just wants the plan to be clear.”

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    1. Longstreet comes off like a schizophrenic in the article. He leaves USC because he wants to legitimately compete for the starting quarterback job. USC tells him that he can but he doesn’t believe them because Maiava makes twice as much NIL money. But, he is open to serving as a backup at LSU behind Sam Leavitt or Oregon where Dante Moore has the job. And both those guys will make more money than Longstreet. Admit that you left because you thought you could start for a major program and have since discovered that is not the case.

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  5. Michael, I have only recently started to post comments on this site, and your posts were always factual and succinct. Many of the other commentators are either very juvenile or just downright disrespectful. So be it.

    In my last post, I stated factually that ND tends to play one or two major opponents and ten mediocre programs in order to get to their ten win season. I would encourage anyone interested in facts to check out their schedules for 2026 and 2027 and see for yourselves. In 2026 they play BYU and Miami as their marquee opponents and in 2027 they play BYU and Clemson. They call Clemson a major opponent even though Dabo does not believe in NIL and the portal so you can see what happened to that program this year. And, you can’t tell me that a BYU team that was beaten twice by Texas Tech is a major opponent. Notre Dame is like the spoiled brat of college football; they want everything from scheduling to dates to benefit them so they can say see we are a ten win team and deserve to be in the playoffs. Any true USC fan would stick up for our team and what is best for our team. Being in the always tough Big Ten we don’t need to apologize to anyone for our schedule, and if ND wants to play big boy football, join the Big Ten I would be happy to play them every year. Fight on, Dan, class of 1962.

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  6. I have several of Peter Read Miller’s Sports Illustrated covers…all of which I will always treasure.

    R. I. P., Peter —you were the best!

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