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Alabama is the national champion. USC loses Sam Darnold and Ronald Jones to the NFL next season. UCLA loses Josh Rosen. It’s our first look at the 2018 college football season and my initial thought is that we usually have at least one of our teams in the national chase. But right now Washington is being considered the Pac-10’s best team. Darnold has NFL talent but his interception early in the Trojans’ Cotton Bowl loss to Ohio State put the Trojans in a hole and they didn’t emerge from it. I ca...
I apologize. In the weeks leading up to the Rose Bowl game I had difficulty accepting the fact that our local teams would be sent away. What about the tradition that the Pac-12 champion would play in the Rose Bowl game, usually against the Big Ten champion. That's been good enough for a long, long time. Why make a change? When I learned the game would be between Oklahoma and Georgia I got a little madder. Who cares? What about USC and Ohio State? The Cotton Bowl in Texas. You've got to be...
The USC Trojan football team will travel deep into the heart of Texas to play one of the best college football teams in the nation when they face Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl on Friday, December 29, at 5:30 p.m. The game will be played inside the AT&T Stadium in Arlington Texas and the game will be televised on ESPN. This is the same field where the Dallas Cowboys play their home games. This may be the last time we will see USC quarterback Sam Darnold in a Trojan uniform. Darnold is projected t...
Alex Smith Signs With Wisconsin Culver City High School Football player Alex Smith a defensive back signs his National Letter of Intent (NLI) with the University of Wisconsin Badgers today at Culver City High School Gym. Pictured are: Alex Smith with Mom, Sister, Dad, Head Coach Jahmal Wright. Photo by Jevone Moore...
UCLA introduced its new football coach, Chip Kelly during a packed press conference on the school's campus last Monday. If you could package the smiles from boosters into victories Kelly would be very successful already but expectations don't translate into wins. "When I came back into coaching I wanted to make sure this was the right fit for me," said Kelly at the press conference on last Monday. "Football is a great game and to be around the right people is the most important thing to me....
The agony of defeat paid a visit to Culver City High last Friday night. The black, white and blue clad Centaurs put on a brilliant display of dynamic football while suffering a 57-56 heartbreaking loss to Covina High. A dramatic do-or-die, two-point conversion in overtime by the Colts sent the Centaurs reeling into stunned silence on the last play of the game. "Great game to be a part of and super proud of how our team played. We showed resolve, we showed heart, we showed fight and we showed pri...
The USC football team will try to beat Stanford again in 2017 but this time it's for the Pac-12 Championship. On September 9 at the Coliseum the Trojans beat the Cardinal 42-24. The problem is Stanford has gotten better and the Trojans have basically stayed the same. USC is ranked No.11 in the nation and Stanford is No. 21 and they will battle for the Pac-12 Championship on Friday at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. The Trojans are 10-2 and the Cardinal is 9-3. The biggest difference in Stanford...
The Chip Kelly drama has reached a new chapter. Last weekend UCLA fired head football coach Jim Mora and news spread that they want Kelly, the former Oregon coach, to replace him. That information was publicized in the latest edition of the Culver City Observer. Kelly, who has been fired by two NFL teams, the Philadelphia Eagles nd San Francisco 49ers, was about to sign with Florida. But once news spread of UCLA’s interest Kelly met with Florida but didn’t commit. Then on Tuesday of this wee...
After UCLA fired head football coach Jim Mora following the Bruins’ 28-23 loss to USC Saturday night Jedd Fisch was named interim head coach. Fisch has been an assistant at five colleges and became UCLA’s offensive co-ordinator a year ago. However, speculation has been strong that USC has a major interest in Chip Kelly, who won a Rose Bowl game while compiling a 45-5 record at Oregon. Kelly then coached the San Francisco 49ers but didn’t have a lot of success and was replaced. There is speculation that Kelly was...
The USC football team, fresh off a close 28-23 win over cross town rival UCLA last Saturday at the Coliseum, will play for the Pac-12 championship on December 1, at 5 p.m.at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. Their opponent will be Washington State or Stanford. USC will have to play better than it did against UCLA if they expect to win the Pac-12 championship. Although the 10-2 Trojans won the game over the 5-6 Bruins it appears the Trojans are missing something that is not allowing them to be a...
When UCLA and USC play each other in any sport the stakes are high and the winner has bragging rights for another year. This years' football game is no different. Although there is no Rose Bowl game to play for the two teams still serve up some of the best talent in college football. The Trojans and the Bruins will meet on Saturday at 5 p.m. at the Coliseum. Both teams will feature NFL ready quarterbacks and both teams have something to prove and play for. The 9-2 Trojans have already clinched...
The USC men's basketball team was ranked No. 10 in the Associated Press preseason poll today (Nov. 1). It marks the highest preseason ranking for the Trojan men's basketball team since the 1974-75 season. It is also the highest ranking at any point for the Trojans since finishing the 1991-92 season at No. 8. also achieved a preseason ranking of No. 11 in the USA/TODAY Coaches poll and are listed as No. 6 in the ESPN Power Index. USC is coming off a school-record 26-win season, having won two...
The 2-0 UCLA football team travels to the state of Tennessee Saturday to take on the Memphis Tigers at 9 a.m. on ESPN2 or Channel 7. If the Bruins’ offense continues to play at a high level UCLA should be 3-0 at the end of the day. Bruin junior quarterback Josh Rosen looks like he is trying recapture his sensation freshman year when he was the best quarterback in the nation. Last Saturday against Hawaii he completed 22-25 passes for 332 yards five touchdowns. He completed passes to eight d...
Two of the greatest college football programs in the nation will be on the field Saturday when the USC Trojans take on the Texas Longhorns at 5:30 p.m. at the Coliseum. Although the Longhorns have been down the past few years they still have enough talent to upset the Trojans. The Trojans are fresh off a dominating performance against a very good Stanford team last Saturday at the Coliseum. The final score was 42-24 and all of the Trojan teams played well, offense, defense and special teams....
UCLA's 45-44 thrilling comeback win over Texas A&M last Sunday at the Rose Bowl was a game that defied all logical explanations when it comes to making a sports comeback. What made it so hard to believe was that the Bruins were so bad in the first have and so good in the second half. They were down 38 to 10 at half time and even some of UCLA's most devoted fans were so discouraged that they started to leave the Rose Bowl. UCLA appeared to be sleep walking in the first half and they continued to...
The UCLA football team will find out early if it has improved from last year when they take on a good Texas A&M football team at the Rose Bowl on a rare college game on Sunday. Kickoff is set for 4:30 p.m. The Bruins are hoping to get off to a fast start in 2017 and improve on their 4-8 season last year. If they expect to improve they will need to get better in several categories. Number one on the list is protecting All-Star quarterback Josh Rosen. Number two is improving the running game....
The USC football team has enough talent in 2017 to stay at the top of the Pac-12 and national rankings. They have one of the best quarterbacks in the nation in Sam Darnold. They always have outstanding running backs led by Roland Jones ll and their defense is fast and strong. They will put those talents on display Saturday when they open their season against Western Michigan at 2:15 p.m. at the Coliseum. The No. 4 ranked Trojans should score a lot of points against Western Michigan but they...
Lucas O’Connor, star quarterback of the 2011 Culver City High football team that went to the CIF Western Conference finals has signed a scholarship offer to play football at West Liberty University in West Liberty, West Virginia. West Liberty is a strong Division 2 program. In his big season with the Centaurs O’Connor passed for 3,341 yards in 14 games, second only to Darius Banks who threw for 4,115 in 2006. His 32 touchdowns passes makes him the third highest in this category behind Banks and Jonathan Martin. He was second all time in Cul...
What can the Trojans do for an encore? The USC football team won nine games in a row last season after starting the season 1-3. Those nine wins included their dramatic victory over Penn State in the Rose Bowl on January 2. Now is time to see if USC can live up to the great expectations that comes with winning nine games in a row. The Trojans are ranked as high as No. 2 in some preseason college polls and they are picked to win the Pac-12. As usual USC is has star power and that starts with...
The good news around Westwood is quarterback Josh Rosen is returning for his junior year. The bad news is, there are still some major question marks about the offensive line. Last year the problems with the line created complications running the ball and protecting the quarterback. The lack of protection caused a season-ending injury to Rosen. UCLA head coach Jim Mora thinks Rosen benefitted from being on the sidelines. His injury last season humbled Josh to a certain degree, said Mora last...
I love college football. Always have. The NFL is great too, but I favor the unpredictable college games with less experienced players often surprising us. A year ago Alabama gave coach Lou Saban his fourth national championship. On Monday night Alabama was one second away from winning again but Clemson scored and prevailed for its first national championship in 35 years. A 45-40 loss last year. A 35-31 victory this time. The Clemson coach, Dabo Sweeney played on Alabama’s 1992 championship t...
When the USC football team started the 2016 season with a 52-6 lost to Alabama on September 3, in Arlington, Texas a lot of people brushed it off because Alabama was the No. 1 ranked team in the nation. The next week the Trojans beat Utah State 45-7 but Utah State is not one of the better teams in the nation. USC started their Pac-12 season on September 17 against Stanford and September 23 against Utah. The Trojans lost both of those games and the talk around the USC campus was the Trojans...
There are 42 college football bowls games this year and next year that will include 84 teams. Every game has special events leading up to the game that makes that particular one stand out and make players, coaches and fans want to visit that city a little more than others. When it comes to special events Lawry’s Beef Bowl is the golden standard. Now in its’ 61th year, the Beef Bowl rivals Disneyland as one of the highlights for the two teams who play in the Rose Bowl. This year 11-2 Penn Sta...
If someone mentioned Rose Bowl around the USC football program back in September even the most loyal Trojan football fan would have said no way. After starting the season with a 1-3 record the young men of Troy reeled off eight consecutive victories in October and November to not only end the regular season as one of the top teams in the nation, they earned a spot in the Rose Bowl. Because New Year’ Day falls on a Sunday the game against Penn State and the parade will take place Monday, J...
While the USC Trojans will get ready to play Notre Dame on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at the Coliseum they will also be keeping an eye on the results of the Colorado, Utah game on Saturday. After the Trojans beat UCLA 36-14 last Saturday at the Rose Bowl that other Pac-12 game on Saturday is very important to the Trojans. If Utah beats Colorado USC will be the South Division champs and they will play in the Pac-12 championship game. Both teams will end up with the same division record at 7-2 but...
