The Pac-12 Is A Mess, In Case You Didn’t Already Know It

  Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott addressed the latest black eye for the conference this morning. Yahoo Sports has an excellent story that showed Woodie Dixon, the Pac-12’s senior vice president of business affairs, overruled the replay booth when it determined Washington State player Logan Tago targeted USC quarterback JT Daniels during the game last month. How is someone with no training as an official allowed to make … Continue reading The Pac-12 Is A Mess, In Case You Didn’t Already Know It

Legendary NBA Assistant Tex Winter Was Also A Trojan

Tex Winter was a legendary NBA assistant who was part of nine championship teams with the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers. He died Wednesday at age 96. But he was also a USC basketball player as shown above, when he was known as Fred Winter. When you read stories on Winter, some say he invented the triangle offense made popular with the Bulls and … Continue reading Legendary NBA Assistant Tex Winter Was Also A Trojan

The Fashionable USC-Colorado Pick

When Rick Neuheisel and Aaron Taylor of CBS Sports are picking Colorado to beat USC, it’s becoming a little too trendy. Now you can say Neuheisel went to UCLA and coached at Colorado or Taylor went to Notre Dame, but it’s still becoming a little too fashionable when USC is a 7-point favorite. Who will win? Who knows? But either Neuheisel and Taylor really hate … Continue reading The Fashionable USC-Colorado Pick

A Legal Victory (Of Sorts) For Todd McNair

Judge Frederick Shaller ruled that the NCAA violated California state law when it imposed a show-cause penalty against former USC assistant Todd McNair. The decision would prevent the NCAA from imposing show-cause penalties in California. McNair had a one-year show cause penalty that prevented him from recrutiing when the NCAA handed down sanctions against USC. That meant a school would have to appear before an … Continue reading A Legal Victory (Of Sorts) For Todd McNair