The UCLA Bruins suited up in all-white last night in their game against the USC Trojans, and in retrospect it looks their uniforms were a white flag of surrender. The Bruins' 50-0 defeat certainly looks like it could be the end for coach Rick Neuheisel.
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LAst Night's Action: USC Beats Pac-12 South Champion
USC Trojans defeat UCLA Bruins 50-0. So there you saw the Pac-12 South Champions get their asses handed to them by the team that ends the season in first place in the Pac-12 South. Thanks to the NCAA, that sentence is not only factual but completely logical. Go figure.
LAst Night's Action: No Blues for the Kings
Mike Richards with a goal and an assist helps lead the Kings to their fifth victory in seven games. Jonathan Bernier in his first start since Nov. 8 gave up a shaky goal in the first shot of the game. But he recovered to save 23 shots including 14 in the second period.
LAst Night's Action: Kings Sweep Home-and-Home Against Ducks
Perhaps the Ducks’ success in Los Angeles Wednesday night was due to goaltender Jonas Hiller. Against Dan Ellis in the pipes, the Kings got two five-on-five goals, two short-handed goals and a power-play goal en route to their 5-3 win over the Ducks. And for the very first time, the Kings have defeated the Ducks on consecutive nights.
LAst Night's Action: Ducks Score Four in Second Period, Clings to Victory against Vancouver
Anaheim Ducks defeat Vancouver Canucks 4-3. The Ducks did Friday night what the Kings couldn’t do Thursday night: beat the Canucks. Despite a four-goal second period with Jonas Hiller shutting out the Canucks to that point, the Ducks barely hung on when Vancouver outshot Anaheim 22-2 in that final period with goals by Kevin Bieksa and two by Jannik Hansen.
ESPN's College GameDay, Fandom and a Fruitless Reclamation of Youth
The coldest time of the day is the immediate hours before sunrise. At least that is what we are told. I’m usually safely ensconced in the layers of bedding in various states of unconsciousness unless there is a sudden urge to evacuate my bladder. Regardless it’s a rarity that I am outdoors when it’s so cold1, but there I was in the Saturday predawn walking towards the torch-lit Coliseum and into the condensed remains of my breath in the still dark morning.
LAst Night's Action: Kings Not Quick in Shootout
New Jersey Devils defeat LA Kings 2-1 (SO). I don’t know what is more shocking: that Kings’ goalie Jonathan Quick lost a game in the shootout or that Devils’ left-winger Ilya Kovalchuk led all players in icetime with 29:37.
LAst Night's Action: Trojans Get Horned
Arizona State defeat Sun Devils defeat USC Trojans 43-22. You could sense this lurking in the shadows for the Trojans. They had a hard time closing out Minnesota and Utah in the first two weeks of the season. While they looked dominant last week, it was against an awful Big East team in Syracuse.
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It really is a shame. The Rose Bowl is a gorgeous place to catch a football game. Set in amongst the hills in Pasadena, knowing the history of the stadium, it is breathtaking.
LAst Night's Action: Trojans Have Another Cardiac Win
Against a more formidable opponent than the Golden Gophers of Minnesota, it looked to be more of the same for the Trojans: the Trojans should have had a commanding lead in the fourth quarter only to be denied by their own hubris.
LAst Night's Action: It's All About Preparation
One of the causes of hemorrhoids is increased intra-abdominal pressure - in other words, too much straining. With all the clenched assholes around USC and UCLA during their first games of the season, I certainly hope both programs have a healthy stock of Preparation-H.
NCAA Basketball: The Tears of Madness
After the field of 68 college basketball teams was announced yesterday for the annual Tournament, almost on cue was the annual backlash against the committee’s decisions. They weren’t arguing about the No. 1 seeds mind you - almost universally Ohio St., Pittsburgh, Kansas and Duke were accepted as among the best four teams in the country. All of this hubbub has been saved for Virginia Tech and Colorado.
LAst Night's Action: Kings Tie Franchise Points Mark in Shootout Loss in NY
It wasn't a win, but it did give the Kings a point to tie a franchise record.
After a goal by Arten Anisimov with 3:08 left in the gave to give the Rangers a 3-2 lead, it looked like the Kings wouldn't be able to tie their 1974 mark of getting a point in 11 consecutive games. But the Kings finally did what teams had done to them all season long - come right back and score. Just 47 seconds later, Dustin Brown from behind the goal line stuffed the puck in the net past goalie Henrik Lundqvist.
USC Quarterback Mitch Mustain Arrested
Perhaps schools should be focused on their actual student athletes rather than today's national signing day. AM 830 KLAA's Roger Lodge reported that USC Trojan's backup quarterback Mitch Mustain was allegedly arrested in the West Valley last night for selling an Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder drug to an undercover officer. Bail is set at $30,000. More information on this as it comes.
LAist-CS Final Regular Season Rankings: The Slap-and-Tickle Battle of L.A.
I don’t know what’s more embarrassing: the stabbing in the parking lot of the Rose Bowl or the game itself.
Led by Allen Bradford’s 212 yards of rushing and a 47-yard touchdown catch, the Trojans won the Battle of L.A. While that’s all fine and dandy, anyone that watched the third quarter would have wished they were at STAPLES Center watching the Kings beat the Red Wings.
Here’s what happened in the third quarter: UCLA Kickoff; USC punt; UCLA interception; USC interception; UCLA fumble; USC turnover on downs; UCLA punt; USC interception; UCLA punt; end of quarter. For the crimes committed against football, both teams should have been assessed losses and the Victory Bell should have been shipped to Division III Occidental Tigers.
LAst Night's Action: Massacre à Montréal
Montreal Canadiens defeat LA Kings 4-1. Quelle tragédie! Les Rois perdus à Montréal. Les Habitantes a mieux joué que les Rois. With all due respect to the Quebecois and other French-speaking hockey fans, that’s the extent of my knowledge of French. Je suis désolé.
College Football Schedule Week 13: Gobble Down
What better way to waste away a long weekend after having gorged on turkey and walking around like zombies in a tryptophan-induced haze than to vegetate on the couch while watching some college football? Having no life, that’s exactly what I’ll be doing until I will be forced to brave the elements Saturday evening to cover the Kings game at STAPLES Center.
LAst Night's Action: Trojans Lose Again in Corvallis
Oregon State Beavers defeat USC Trojans 36-7. A week after Oregon State got embarrassed at home against the awful Washington State, they decided to take out their frustrations on the visiting Trojans. They held the Trojans to only a touchdown while knocking quarterback Matt Barkley with a high ankle sprain out of the game at the end of the first half.
LAst Night's Action: Kings Shark-Bitten
San Jose Sharks defeat LA Kings 6-3. The Kings came into the game leading the Western Conference in points and with a six-game win streak, but they came out flat-footed up in the Shark Tank in San Jose. The Kings, thanks to the Sharks forecheck, kept turning the puck over on their blue line. Of course goalie Jonathan Bernier’s inability to freeze the puck didn’t help things either.
LAst Night's Action: Trojans Run Wild over Wildcats
USC Trojans defeat Arizona Wildcats 24-21. The Trojans 205 yards on the ground coupled with their two fumble recoveries helped them beat No. 18 Arizona Wildcats, their first victory over a ranked team this season.
LAst Night's Action: Trojans, Bruins Kick Their Way to Victory
USC Trojans defeat Arizona State Sun Devils 34-33. A failed extra point was the difference in this game.
LAst Night's Action: Oregon Topples Trojans
Oregon Ducks defeat USC Trojans 53-32. The Trojans made a valiant attempt to stay with the Ducks, but the Ducks’ offense was just too much to overcome as the Trojans fell to No. 1 Oregon 53-32.
LAst Night's Action: USC Dominates Cal
USC Trojans defeat California Golden Bears 48-14. After consecutive conference losses against Washington and Stanford, the Trojans decided to take their frustrations out on the Bears. The first half belonged to the Trojans as they racked up 42 points and 372 of their total 589 yards while shutting down Cal in every phase of the game.
LAst Night's Action: USC Sunk By Field Goal Again
#16 Stanford Cardinal defeat USC Trojans 37-35. The second verse was the same as the first. After being unable to stop the Washington Huskies from traveling down the field for a game winning field goal, USC do the same thing again as Andrew Luck and the Stanford offense marched down the field for the game winning 30-yard field goal.
LAst Night's Action: They Are SC
USC defeats USC. That is, Southern California defeats South Carolina. And not on the football field, but in the Supreme Court.
In 1997 the University of South Carolina sought to trademark the interlocking “SC” logo for its merchandise. The University of Southern California objected setting off a 13-year long legal battle between the schools...
LAst Night's Action: UCLA Does What Was Expected of Them
UCLA Bruins defeat Washington State Cougars 48-24. The final score made it look like it was an easy enough win for the Bruins, but it was anything but. The Bruins fell asleep allowing Wazzu to take a 28-20 lead in the third quarter. The offense finally woke up midway through the third quarter going on a 67-yard touchdown drive that took up four minutes and got the two-point conversion to tie the game.
LAst Night's Action: John Ely Struck Down in Dodgers' Loss
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat LA Dodgers 5-2. John Ely and the strike zone still aren’t seeing eye-to-eye with Ely allowing six walks to Diamondbacks’ hitters. After Stephen Drew scored on Tony Abreu’s sacrifice fly in the fifth inning to tie the game 1-1, Cole Gillespie gave the D-Backs the 4-1 lead with a three run homer off of Ely in the sixth inning.
Trojans and Bruins Seek More of Same on the Road
This weekend should play host to two blowouts for the local college football teams.
Coming off of three victories, however unimpressive they might have been, USC begin their Pac-10 schedule with a trip up to the Palouse against the lowly Washington State Cougars.
LAst Night's Action: Angels, Dodgers Make for a Happy LA
LA Angels defeat Tampa Bay Rays 6-3. The Angels’ light weight hitters have now come through twice in their three-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays. After Brandon Wood hit the game-winning homer in the ninth inning Friday night, Peter Bourjos, whose batting average is also below the Mendoza line...
Reggie Bush Forfeits Heisman
A week after saying the status of his Heisman Trophy was out of his hands, the Associated Press reported that former USC tailback Reggie Bush will be giving back the honors awarded to him after his 2005 college football campaign. In a statement released by Bush's current team New Orleans Saints:

