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Craig Fertig Was My FriendBy Steven Travers The following is excerpted from WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A TROJAN (Triumph/Random House, 2009). CRAIG FERTIGQuarterback1962 - 1964 I came out of Huntington Park High School and John McKay recruited me in his first year, but USC was after me before he was hired. Guess who came out to look at me first? Al Davis, that's who. Al was trying to get the job that McKay got. It dawned on McKay early on that Davis was after that job and he didn't retain him on the staff after Don Clark left,...

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OJ Simpson jury to announce decision tonight in Las Vegas at 10pm Pacific.

Two weeks ago, the world was convinced the USC Trojans were by far the best team in college football. Two days ago, the talk was how tough the road would be for the stronger SEC and Big 12 teams to get to the title to face USC. A few hours ago, everything changed. Something happened to USC in Corvallis – again. The Trojans left Oregon State’s campus with a quizzical look on each of their faces, in the form of 5’6” Jacquizz Rodgers, who ran big, totaling 186 yards on the ground against a USC defense that many felt was...

WASHINGTON, DC (AP) –Doubts over the proposal to bail out the USC Trojan football program continue to slow the progress of the bill through Congress. Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers object to portions of the package, and are asking for more time to allow for further debate on the issue.

...Extremism is a systemic problem with the Muslim Students Association network. For example, Sheikh Khalid Yasin, who has spoken at a multitude of campuses throughout the country and at events at the MSA National level, has denied al-Qaeda was involved in 9/11 and believes that homosexuals should be killed in accordance with the Koran. Norman Finkelstein, who has also spoken for various Muslim Students Association groups, has been featured at the University of Maryland, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Columbia, and many others. Imam Abdul Alim Musa, a radical imam and founder of the As Sabiqun (Arabic for “The...

Deleted site causes stir for Muslim organization Provost Nikias takes down posted documents calling on Muslims to kill Jews. Provost C. L. Max Nikias has approved the deletion of part of a Muslim student group website that hosted religious documents urging Muslims to kill Jewish people. The material was removed from a collection of scriptures known as hadiths, historical sayings of the Prophet Muhammad not included in the Quran. The hadith in question, along with thousands of others, are hosted in their entirety on a USC server as part of the now defunct Muslim Student Association's website. Nikias first heard...

“Hadith of Hate” Banned at USC   By Reut R. CohenFrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, August 22, 2008 As Muslim Student Association (MSA) chapters have become increasingly influential at universities and colleges around the country, critics have charged that it is a hate group that sympathizes with the international jihad and promulgates an anti-American and anti-Semitic ideology in its campus actions. In response, the MSA has claimed that it is merely another religious and cultural group similar to Hillel, a club for Jewish students, or the Newman Club for Catholics. That deception has been now unmasked at the University of Southern...

There is really NOTHING I can add to this, so I am opting just to offer this post with the hopes our handful of regular readers will sign this petition! From Thomas Peters at American Papist: Please Sign the Petition to Support USD! Brian McDaniel took up my challenge to collect 4,000 signatures supporting the University of San Diego’s recent decision to rescind a prestigious position to heretical theologian Rosemary Radford Reuther. If ever there was someone who clearly deserves no place of honor in a Catholic school of Theology - she’s it. Beyond her long membership in the...

CNN was forced to apologize Thursday after it aired an interview on American Morning with a University of Southern California student whom it identified as Eric Pearlmutter, a College Republican, who said that there was little enthusiastic support for Sen. John McCain's candidacy on campus. Following the broadcast Ben Myers, president of the USC College Republicans, shot back saying that he had never met or seen Pearlmutter at a College Republican meeting and that Pearlmutter is not even a member. "As far as I know, he could be a Democrat," Myers told the Los Angeles Times. On Thursday night a...

If a reporter wanted to test the enthusiasm of College Republicans at a campus for John McCain, one might think that they would look up the officers of the chapter and arrange a few interviews. CNN apparently found that a little too difficult at USC yesterday, so they just stopped the first person who claimed to be a Republican. Andrew Malcolm reports on the aftermath: The president of the College Republicans at the University of Southern California is charging that CNN used a “fake College Republican” in its broadcast report today, claiming there was a lack of enthusiasm for the...

Afew weeks ago, John McCain made a little joke at his wife's expense. Referring to her alma mater -- Cindy McCain is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where she was a cheerleader and sorority sister -- he called it "USC, the University of Spoiled Children." It's not an original joke, of course -- it's been around for ages, possibly even as long as John McCain himself -- but it said a lot about the man who wants to be president. ...Visit any college classroom -- at the University of Spoiled Children, Harvard, Yale, Puget Sound, doesn't matter...

USC is eliminating the study of German as a major over the next three years and dismantling the department except for some basic language courses, officials said. Faculty and students are protesting the move, saying it will harm the university's national reputation for scholarship. The German department at the Los Angeles campus is relatively small, with three full-time professors, three lecturers, 10 undergraduate majors and 10 minors, said its chairman, Gerhard Clausing. He said the university has starved the department of funds and new hires in recent years and is now making a serious mistake in reducing it further.

Frankenstein Video Game by: Deborah Lambert, January 30, 2008 Although most parents would disagree with the emphasis their offspring place on video games, Nicola Groom of Reuters recently reported that a professor at the U. Of Southern California has devised a procedure for integrating “educational role-playing games into the classroom.” Prof. Doug Thomas is “developing a game for students ages 10-12 that aims to teach ideas and skills not found in traditional textbooks.” His game, Modern Prometheus, uses the story of Frankenstein to teach “ethical decision-making” by having the player “assume the role of Dr. Frankenstein’ assistant, who is forced...

USC Takes Left Turn by: Don Irvine, January 18, 2008 In the 2000 election cycle USC professors and staff members donated slightly more money to George Bush’s presidential campaign than to Al Gore. What a difference eight years make. According to a report by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Responsive Politics for the current election cycle have given a total of $66,250 to presidential candidates with 98 percent of that amount going to Democrats making the university one of the most pro-democratic party campuses in the nation. This has led USC political science professor Anthony Kammas to question the role...

A former business associate of the failed marketing agency that attempted to secure Reggie Bush as a client told Yahoo! Sports he spoke directly to Bush about the company's business plan before the running back completed his junior season at the University of Southern California. Such an action would have violated NCAA rules and is the latest in a series of facts uncovered in a Yahoo! Sports investigation that indicate Bush and his family had an improper relationship with New Era Sports & Entertainment. Ben Delanoy, now CEO of Next Level Sports Marketing, said Bush indicated he would be part...

Late Tuesday night, ESPN.com, citing multiple sources, reported that Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank is pursuing USC coach Pete Carroll according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. According to the story, the Falcons "might be willing to grant Carroll far-reaching responsibilities." The Falcons on Tuesday said they were extending their simultaneous searches for a new head coach and general manager. On Tuesday, the Falcons were granted permission to interview Tennessee defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz. That interview is slated for this week. But the team was denied permission to talk to New York Giants defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo.

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Help Us Keep the Trojans in the Coliseum An Open Letter from Mike Garrett to the Trojan Family November 28, 2007 Dear Fellow Trojan: It gives me no pleasure to write a letter of this kind, but there are issues facing our university that you need to understand. The University of Southern California has been negotiating diligently for months, trying to renew USC’s lease with the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and trying to get guarantees that USC’s football team and fans can enjoy home games in a completely renovated and improved stadium. Unfortunately, talks are at an impasse, and right...

Still, there will still be more than bragging rights at stake Saturday when eighth-ranked USC plays UCLA at the Coliseum in the 77th meeting between the crosstown rivals. Much more. Both teams have a shot at playing in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. This will be the 36th time the Trojans and Bruins will meet with the Rose Bowl on the line for one or both teams. (Cut) USC, 9-2 overall and 6-2 in the Pacific 10 Conference, can clinch its sixth consecutive league title and make its third consecutive Rose Bowl appearance with a victory over the...

Former USC and Heisman Trophy-winning running back Reggie Bush and his family are being sued by the co-founder of a failed sports marketing agency, according to a filing Tuesday in San Diego County Court. The lawsuit, filed by attorneys for New Era Sports & Entertainment co-founder Lloyd Lake, alleges Bush and his family failed to repay a wide array of benefits they received from New Era while Bush played for the Trojans. One of Lake's attorney's, Paul Wong, said that in addition to filing the suit, Lake has agreed to meet with NCAA investigators to discuss Bush's involvement with New...

Coulter's USC appearance proves media misrepresent popular figures. To most who knew of the Ann Coulter event weeks in advance, she was simply a controversial radical. But for the more than 200 people who crowded Annenberg Auditorium Oct. 24 for her speech, she had more than a few surprises. The New York Times best-selling author spoke to a USC audience as part of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week and was literally encircled by security guards at all times throughout the night. I'm not really sure how I was lucky enough to slip through and talk to her. Briefly we discussed being slammed...

OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. — Fire ravaged a beach house occupied by more than a dozen college students early Sunday, killing seven and sending several more to a hospital. Six survivors were released after treatment, including one who jumped from the burning house into a waterway, Mayor Debbie Smith said. Officials had accounted for all of the 13 people believed to be inside the home, Smith said. "There were three kids sitting on the ground screaming," said newspaper deliverer Tim Burns, who called 911 after seeing a column of smoke rising from the house. "There was one guy hanging out...

<p>When I saw the final score of the Notre Dame-USC game, something about it caught my eye. It wasn’t that USC demolished the Irish. The score itself — 38-0 — looked familiar.</p> <p>So I did some checking and found that not only did Notre Dame lose to Michigan by that same 38-0 score last month, it also lost to Michigan 38-0 under Tyrone Willingham.</p>

Ann Coulter comes to campus, criticizes liberal politics The controversial author speaks at an event for Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. By: Radomir AvilaPosted: 10/25/07 Conservative author and media personality Ann Coulter spoke to more than 200 people at Annenberg Auditorium on Wednesday, a night that included political jabbing inside and a gathering of protestors outside. The event was part of "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week," a nationwide effort by the David Horowitz Freedom Center to "confront the two Big Lies of the political left; that George Bush created the war on terror and that Global Warming is a greater danger to Americans than...

HAVE YOU HUGGED AN ISLAMO-FACIST TODAY?October 24, 2007 College liberals are in a fit of pique because various speakers are coming to their campuses this week as part of David Horowitz's Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week -- not to be confused with Islamo-Fascism Appreciation Week, which I believe is in April. Apparently liberals support Islamo-fascism. The Democratic leadership might want to have a powwow with their base because I believe their public position is to pretend to (BEGIN ITALS)oppose(END ITALS) Islamic fascism. Elected Democrats at least make empty rhetorical gestures about opposing Islamic fascism. Of course, amidst their nonspecific condemnations of Islamic...

Listeners must discern among the riffraff From the editors Issue date: 10/24/07 Section: Opinion Known for her mudslinging and immature name calling - she once called Al Gore a "total fag," like a bitter bully in the schoolyard - Ann Coulter comes to campus today as part of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, billed by its organizers as "the biggest conservative campus protest ever." The controversial pundit, whose fame derives almost solely from appearances on cable news networks and a handful of inane, weightless books - is - if not a welcome speaker on our campus, at least a reflection of...

From YAF.org:WEDNESDAY, October 24th - Ann Coulter at the University of Southern California, CA

Here's the game preview from ESPN.com: LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh is sticking to his preseason assessment that No. 2 Southern California might just be the greatest college football team ever. "There is no question in my mind that USC is the best team in the country and may be the best team in the history of college football," Harbaugh said this week. "As a sort of college football historian, there's no question that this SC team ranks right up there." Chances are good that his opinion won't change Saturday, when the struggling Cardinal (1-3, 0-3 Pac-10)...

Attacking outspoken conservative will prove unproductive By JOSHUA SHARP Staff Writer Daily Trojan - Opinions Last week, the far left-wing of the Democratic Party celebrated the arrival of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in America. Columbia University provided a stage and microphone for the deranged dictator to spout his predictable rhetoric - denying the Holocaust, claiming gays don't exist in Iran and dismissing widespread criticism that his regime oppresses women. On Oct. 24, the USC College Republicans and USC Objectivist Club plan to sponsor a speech by far right-wing columnist and author Ann Coulter on the USC campus, as part of...

NEW YORK (AP) -- LSU reached No. 1 the hard way. The Tigers edged past Southern California in the AP Top 25 on Sunday, even though the Trojans remained undefeated. On a wild day in college football, when half the top 10 lost, USC avoided the upset bug that struck Oklahoma, Florida, Texas and Rutgers. But a sloppy 27-24 victory at Washington on Saturday night cost the Trojans the No. 1 ranking they've held all season. USC is the first team to lose the No. 1 ranking after a victory since Nov. 3, 2002, when top-ranked Miami dropped after beating...

All 39 first-place votes in Pacific-10 media poll go to Carroll's Trojans LOS ANGELES — From the Bay Area to the Bayou, coaches can't stop talking about the USC football team. And that wasn't going to end Thursday when the Pacific-10 Conference football coaches gathered at the LAX Sheraton for their annual media day. "USC isn't only the best team in the country, but maybe the best team in the history of college football," said first-year Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh. "I think their current team is that good." If not the gathered media, the media poll certainly seemed to nod...

A GIFTED brain surgeon is believed to be the mastermind of a ring of foreign doctors behind the London and Glasgow car bomb plots. British police suspect Jordan-trained neurologist Mohammed Jamil Abdelqadar Asha, 26, headed a network of medics intent on unleashing terror. Three doctors and two trainees are among seven people being quizzed in the UK over the car bomb plots. Several people arrested in connection with the terror attacks were traced via call logs from two mobile phones that failed to detonate in the nightclub car bombs. Suspected plot ringleader Dr Asha is a neurologist who was born...

For the second straight year, USC basketball coach Tim Floyd has received a verbal commitment from an eighth-grader. Ryan Boatwright, a speedy 5-foot-10, 145-pound rising freshman point guard from Illinois who has yet to make a decision on where he's headed for high school, accepted Floyd's scholarship offer while at USC's camp this past weekend. "They were the first one to show interest in Ryan," said Boatwright's father, Mike. "A lot of people have said Ryan isn't that good, but he went to USC's camp and played well." Mike Boatwright said the biggest concern surrounding his 14-year-old son's decision is...

A second Los Angeles judge threw out the murder charge against a suspended USC student accused of killing her newborn child on Tuesday. Holly Ashcraft, a 22-year-old architecture major who has stood trial for two years, still faces a June 27 hearing for one charge of child abuse. Ashcraft was arrested in October 2005 after a newborn was found in a Dumpster behind the 29th Street Cafe. DNA evidence proved it was her son. Prosecuting Deputy District Attorney Franco Barrata had cited a coroner's conclusion that the baby was born alive, but defense attorney Mark Geragos had repeatedly challenged that...

Students staged a sit-in Tuesday outside the office of USC's president, hoping the university would take measures to ensure that USC-themed apparel isn't manufactured in sweatshops. Thirteen students, who came prepared with food to last three days and pillows, ended their protest after about six hours when the university threatened to suspend them and, in a move that even surprised former 1960s student activist Tom Hayden, called their parents.

"Mario Danelo, a kicker for the USC football team, was found dead Saturday in San Pedro, Calif. Danelo's body was found at the bottom of White Point Cliff in San Pedro, according for a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department. Police did not release further details. "

1995 Nebraska: The All-Time Greatest! Two generations of Cornhuskers clashed in the final round of the Classic, but in the end, the 1995 Nebraska squad prevailed over their 1971 counterparts. ’95 Nebraska received the most votes in every single round, dominating opponents much like they dominated Florida in the Fiesta Bowl, where they won 62-24. Nebraska fans were out in full force tonight, leading the 1971 team past recent favorites 2004 USC and 2005 Texas. They rallied in the closing seconds to just barely inch by Pete Carroll’s team, but never truly dominated the late votes. Coach Tom Osborne’s 1995...

NEW YORK — Replay officials at last season's Rose Bowl were unable to properly review a Texas touchdown that should have been overturned because the wrong television feed was plugged into a monitor. Big Ten and national coordinator of officials David Parry told The Associated Press that he went to the replay booth during January's Rose Bowl between USC and Texas to ask about Selvin Young's 12-yard touchdown run in the second quarter. It appeared on replays that Young received a pitch from Texas' Vince Young after the quarterback's knee touched the ground. Parry said replay officials told him one...

by Mark Finkelstein September 28, 2006 - 18:01 What's worse: A. telling a story in which the n-word is liberally used, or B. driving through a black neighborhood, flaunting rifles and yelling racial epithets? I'm going with 'B.' So why did Chris Matthews devote the first half of this afternoon's "Hardball" to the n-word story, and not one second to the driving-through-the-black-neighborhood story? You don't suppose, do you, that it could have anything to do with the fact that 'A' concerns Republican George Allen, and 'B' his Dem challenger, James Webb? Matthews opened Hardball with an extended segment featuring Patricia...

No joke. Rutgers is ranked. The Scarlet Knights, long a college football laughingstock, moved into The Associated Press Top 25 for the first time in 30 years on Sunday. No. 23 Rutgers (4-0), led by tailback Ray Rice, the fourth-leading rusher in the nation, is off to its best start since 1980 after beating Howard 56-7 on Saturday. "I'm not going to downplay it. It is significant considering where we started," Rutgers coach Greg Schiano said. "It shows we're making progress in the right direction." The Scarlet Knights were one of three new teams at the bottom of the new...

An eight-month Yahoo! Sports investigation has revealed that Heisman Trophy-winning running back Reggie Bush and his family appear to have accepted financial benefits worth more than $100,000 from marketing agents while Bush was playing at the University of Southern California. The benefits, which could lead to NCAA sanctions for USC and retroactively cost Bush his college eligibility and Heisman, were supplied by two groups attempting to woo Bush as a client. Current Bush marketing agent Mike Ornstein and one of Ornstein's employees were involved. So were Michael Michaels and Lloyd Lake, who attempted to launch an agency called New Era...

GEORGE SOROS TO SPEAK AT USC ON SEPTEMBER 20. YOU CAN RSVP AT THE LINKED WEB SITE. Dean's Open Forum on politics, war ... and more September 20, 2006 12:00 noon Annenberg West Lobby Join Dean Geoffrey Cowan for an open forum discussion on issues of the day. Special guest: George Soros, author of The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror. Other featured guests include Manuel Castells, Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society, and Robert Scheer, author, syndicated columnist, and clinical professor of communication. Book signing follows discussion. Lunch will be served. RSVP for this...

USC should forfeit the 2004 national crown after reports that Reggie Bush and his family appear to have accepted financial benefits from prospective agents. LOS ANGELES – The would-be agents who provided the house, the money for the tricked-out car, the luxury hotel rooms and the tens of thousands in cash used to roll right into the Southern California locker room after the game, right past security, to meet and greet the triumphant Trojans. The marketing agent who provided the cash allowance, the plane flights, the limo rides and the designer suits used to hang around Trojan practices, filed paperwork...

Terrorist suspect arrested on Danish ferry Danish-Moroccan terrorist suspect Said Mansour was arrested last week after being observed photographing security installations and emergency exits on a DFDS (The United Steamship Company) passenger ferry to Oslo, Danish newspapers report. Shipping line DFDS confirmed to Danish newspaper Politiken that Mansour was aboard the ferry and that the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) had been contacted about the incident. Neither Danish police nor their intelligence service PET would comment about the reason for Mansour's arrest. He was released on Monday. During a search of Mansour's home police found photographic and computer equipment worth...

Al-Qaida American was poster boy for USC Muslim Student Association University drops testimonial by former heavy metal fan from website after he reveals himself as terror leader Posted: July 14, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Adam Gadahn The former California heavy metal music fan turned al-Qaida leader had his Islamic conversion testimonial featured on the official website of the University of Southern California's Muslim Students Association for 11 years before he was revealed as a terror advocate last week. Yahiye Adam Gadahn's story of "Becoming Muslim" was removed from the USC website shortly after he appeared in an al-Qaida video a...

A judge refused to declare a mistrial Tuesday in the case against a prominent University of Southern California geneticist accused of molesting the daughter of a colleague over a five-year period. Superior Court Judge Michael E. Pastor made the ruling after defense attorneys unsuccessfully argued against the introduction of e-mail exchanges between William French Anderson, known as the father of gene therapy, and his accuser. Anderson, 69, is charged with one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child under age 14 and three counts of committing a lewd act upon a child. He has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors claim...