Columnists Jim Alexander and Mirjam Swanson discuss some of the week’s sports issues.
USC starting quarterback Miller Moss and QB Jake Jensen are pictured with USC coach Lincoln Riley during the spring football game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 20, 2024. I suspect local college football fans, especially those who show up for games at the Coliseum on Saturdays, are about to experience some major culture shock when the season gets underway in a week.
As for the locals? I’m betting that DeShaun Foster will have the Bruins rolling eventually, but it’s going to be a massive project and a lot of pundits have them at or near the bottom. USC came within a bad hamstring of the four-team playoff in Lincoln Riley’s first year but slid into mediocrity in 2023, and there are now questions just how good a coach he really is and how capable he is of dealing with this new minefield of a schedule.
How will Miller Moss fare in place of Caleb Williams at QB for USC? How much better will D’Anton Lynn’s defense be? What was up with that report that Lincoln Riley wanted out of this LSU opener, and that he might want to end the grand tradition of facing Notre Dame, telling reporters recently: “Is the juice worth the squeeze, right, in terms of playing these games?” What happened to that swashbuckling coach who arrived in L.A.
There’s also this: The best quarterbacks in the conference might even come from the new schools, possibly including USC’s Moss and UCLA’s Garbers. Big Ten Network correspondent Yogi Roth – and that column on that transition is coming, promise me – told me that at Big Ten Media Days, five teams sent their quarterbacks as representatives and three were former Pac-12 teams.
But as you point out, the Angels seem, at least, to be pointed in the right direction. Which is saying something for that franchise, which hasn’t had a winning record since 2015, when Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk” was the biggest hit and the first “Inside Out” was in theaters. … The Sparks’ Dearica Hamby faced that the other day when L.A. faced the Las Vegas Aces, her former team. Hamby filed suit against the organization a week ago, alleging discrimination and retaliation and saying the Aces mistreated her and eventually traded her because of her pregnancy. Aces coach Becky Hammon refuted the allegations –I don’t know that Hammon has ever come out and specifically refuted the notion that they traded Dearica to the Sparks because she was pregnant.
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Big Ten Updates Iconic Maps Commercial to Include UCLA, USC, Washington and OregonThe four schools are joining the Big Ten this season.
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