As the 2012-13 school year comes to a close, it is only natural for students to reflect on their time at USC. For seniors about to embark on the next phase of their lives, the most common thought is most likely along the lines of âwhere did the time go?â For underclassmen, time might not [...]
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Collins coming out is big-time sports news
When news broke on Monday that Jason Collins was the first active athlete to come out as gay in a major sports league, there were three basic reactions on television, social media and elsewhere. Reaction one: Overwhelming support. Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, David Stern, even President Barack Obama congratulated Collins for coming out. Reaction two: [...]
Read the rest of this article »Mom didnât react well to the adriamycin, or the cytoxan. This was Jan. 4, 2005, a Tuesday. My dad was carrying my mother as they slammed through the front door of our Burbank home. She was having difficulty even standing alone, and so he walked her through the house and onto the bed. This Tuesday [...]
Read the rest of this article »Sports fans gain from shared experiences
As I stand on the precipice of never writing another sports article, I canât help but sense an important part of me slipping away, never to return again. Itâs not that Iâve ever considered myself an actual sports journalist, more just an opinionated sports fan with patience for the writing process. Now that a mass [...]
Read the rest of this article »Moving ahead along with Barkley, Trojans
Itâs far too fitting that Iâm writing my last column for the Daily Trojan on the first day of the 2013 NFL draft. As I watch Matt Barkley, Robert Woods, T.J. McDonald and others hear their names called over the next few days, I canât help but remember all the times I interviewed them on [...]
Read the rest of this article »When center Dewayne Dedmon announced Wednesday that he was forgoing his senior season and entering the NBA draft, you couldnât help but wonder what new head coach Andy Enfield thought of the move. Many believe there is a very small chance that Dedmon, who averaged 6.7 points and 7.0 rebounds per game last season, will [...]
Read the rest of this article »Taking a closer look at both basketball teams
The last few weeks brought a merciful end to a tumultuous period for both the menâs and womenâs basketball teams. After the dismissal of former menâs head coach Kevin OâNeill and the resignation of womenâs coach Michael Cooper, Athletic Director Pat Haden was hard at work, bringing in Florida Gulf Coast Universityâs Andy Enfield to [...]
Read the rest of this article »The daughter sat and listened to the father. This was May 2008 and Monica Vavic was in the lobby of a Northern California hotel near the Stanford University campus, the site where the USC womenâs water polo team had fallen to heavily favored UCLA 6-3 in the NCAA championship game earlier that day. Her dad, [...]
Read the rest of this article »Trojansâ depth issues will be costly
Though a contradictory figure of speech by definition, oxymorons infiltrate our everyday language. We have the tried-and-true cliches â overused literary paradoxes like âdeafening silenceâ and âsweet sorrow.â We also spread them unwittingly at every turn, with common verbiage such as âact naturallyâ and âdull roar.â After scanning the 2013 football depth chart released last [...]
Read the rest of this article »USC menâs tennis team deserves more credit
I was browsing USCTrojans.com looking for column topics yesterday morning and saw the usual suspects: football, basketball, football and football. But then I saw a headline that said âTrojan Tennis Takes on the World.â I was intrigued, mainly because I had forgotten all about USC tennis, specifically the menâs team. The Trojans have won four [...]
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