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USC Saturday Buzz: Were You Appreciated?

Did anyone go to the 2-hour fan appreciation today?

Did you get Lincon Riley’s autograph? Was he there? Some key players were missing.

But Chad Bowden jumped off the diving platform. Not kidding.

  • Mason Edwards struck out 16 and allowed only 3 hits in 8.1 innings vs. Iowa last night, as USC snapped its four-game losing streak with a 9-2 victory.The teams played today at 2 p.m.
  • Guard Rodney Rice will return to USC next season. This could be significant because he averaged 20 points in six games last season — provided he fully recovers from shoulder surgery.
  • Former USC swimmer Nancy Garapick has passed away. She was a two-time broze medalist int he 1976 Olympics and world-record holder in the 200-meter backstroke. She was 64.

11 thoughts on “USC Saturday Buzz: Were You Appreciated?”

  2. More importantly, did Scott go. It was free. How about Scott reporting on who was at the Fan Appreciation event. Congrats to the baseball team for bouncing back with a win. Great pitching. I like Bowden’s spirit. Fight on, Dan, Class of 1962

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  3. KAM: Nancy Garapick was one of Canada’s greatest swimmers ever. She finished behind two steroid powered East Germans, Ulrike Richter (gold), Birgit Treiber (silver), or she would have won two gold medals in the 100 and 200 backstroke at the Summer Games in Montreal in 1976 at the age of 14.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xixs0fRMbVY…

    DON: Post‑reunification evidence from Stasi files and later investigations showed that East Germany ran a state-sponsored doping program (State Plan 14.25) that systematically administered anabolic steroids to many elite athletes, including swimmers from the 1976 cohort—implicating athletes such as Ulrike Richter and Birgit Treiber.The International Olympic Committee (IOC) stripped the East Germans of their medals, but Garapick was not retroactively awarded the golds.

    She later won a relay bronze at the 1978 World Championships, five medals at the 1979 Pan American Games, and she was selected to the 1980 Olympic team before Canada boycotted the Games over the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. So she was ripped off again!

    She swam collegiately in the United States at USC and retired from competition in 1983 with 17 national titles.

    After her swimming career, she worked as a teacher in the remote Yukon.

    In 2008, she was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame . But nothing from USC, who named a track after Allyson Felix, an athlete who never competed for USC!

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    1. She sounds like a worthy addition to the H of F. Start a campaign for her. Fight on, Dan, Class of 1962

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  4. KAM: A new UCLA Study found that LBGTQ couples are at “higher risk” from “Global Warming” because they’re more likely to live on the East or West coast, so if the sea level rises they’ll be among the first underwater.https://x.com/marcthiessen/status/2042933213341810747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2042933213341810747%7Ctwgr%5E24191034d44fda706612f0a53c06b2a33efb7c09%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F788981%2Flol

    DON: Our tax dollars at work!

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    1. interesting that the Right constantly overlooks the fact that out the OVERWHELMING majority of commerce, art, culture and philosophy are all BLUE states. by FAR the most educated, wealthy and enlightened populations!! whereas the Red states gives us interminable miles of trailer trash and the poorly educated (Trunph’s favorites) who and take FAR more from the country than they contribute!!! can you imagine the trash heap this country would be without LA, NY, PA, IL??? we’d be begging Canada and Mexico for handouts!!

      #CA#3GDPInWorld!

      PS: the only State in danger of submerging is FLA!!! which is why real estate is collapsing!!! you can get waterfront condos FL for $150K with prices still dropping!!! but even if you moved there you’d have to self-insure since no carriers will sell you a policy!! bottom line, all Republicans should move to Blue States!!!

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  6. wolfman, i know your hands are full (literally) on weekends, so take a knee, i GOT this!!

    UCLA defeated Rutgers to extend their torid winning strewk to 15 games!!!

    Bruin Pitcher Logan Reddemann struck out 18 in 8 innings!!!

    #OhMercyNurse!!!

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  7. wolfman, my operatives report seeing Jazzy in Westwood this weekend….and i don’t think she’s there to get frozen yogurt!!

    #BriunsToDominate WNBADraft

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