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Those who stay will be champions*
Five years ago I sat watching Patrick Turner and Mark Sanchez kneeling on the Rose Bowl turf, silent as Texas celebrated. From my perspective in the nosebleeds of the west stands they were pretty much the last USC players visible in the throng of streamers and burnt orange. They were both remarkably still, one knee down and one hand propped on a helmet. I remember thinking: These...
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November 03, 2010
Discuss
Salt
I’ve been writing this post in one form or another since the night of October 31, 2009. It’s started out a couple of different ways. One was a fanciful opening passage to the apocryphal but amusingly un-authorized biography of Pete Carroll I’ve been writing in my head since the end of the 2003 Orange Bowl. Another was a long and very unnecessary series of...
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July 03, 2010
jonathantu
I’m nervous. But not that nervous, which ought to make me more nervous. All the quotes from Barkley re: The Shoe are disconcerting, because all it takes is two short runs and an incomplete pass and Columbus becomes a **** show with USC having to claw its way out, which usually means a couple of [...]
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September 11, 2009
heroin
Tom Brady transferred to USC, allowing Matt Barkley to redshirt and, eventually, beat out the two-time Super Bowl MVP in fall camp of 2010.
(I am not making this up.)
The season is close. I can feel it.
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August 04, 2009
jonathantu
No matter what happens tomorrow, Karl Dorrell will be fired.
And USC will win.
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June 05, 2008
jonathantu
COLUMBUS, OHIO - Police officer Jerry Dunlaw, 39, described the process of divorcing his wife of nine years Tracy Dunlaw (née Winters) on the grounds of adultery as “almost unbearably sad,” noting that it was only her affair with ESPN College GameDay analyst and former Ohio State qu...
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May 29, 2008
jonathantu
It’s the Cocktail Party.
The latter portion of my schedule now reads:
Thursday, October 25
Boston College at Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA); 7:30 PM
Saturday, October 27
Florida at Georgia (Jacksonville, FL); 3:30 PM
Sunday, October 28
UCF at Southern Miss (Hattiesburg, MS); 8:00 PM
Saturday, ...
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May 26, 2008
jonathantu
Hello. I’m Jonathan Tu. You might remember me from such blogs as 82 Sluggo Win, and Yertle, the Recruiting Turtle!
I actually can’t go on with this Troy McClure impression. Too many painful memories. Anyway: updates.
Signing Day is over and done with. USC was not number one, nor even 1.5,...
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March 18, 2008
jonathantu
That’s Desmond Reed. He’s running past Notre Dame/Green Bay safety Tom Zbikowski, on the same field where he injured his leg in 2005. If this picture looks eerily similar to the (former) banner picture, think nothing of it except this: it holds almost exactly the same kind of emotional s...
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March 10, 2008
jonathantu
Many thanks to Sunday Morning Quarterback of Sunday Morning Quarterback, who showed me around downtown Austin and got me drunk and let me sleep on his couch and, generally, acted as a universal solvent to the intractable problem of, “Hey, idiot. You just got arrested in Texas. What the fuck are...
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February 17, 2008
jonathantu
I would’ve said, “What the hell are you doing you stupid bastard? Just run in and flip the ball to the ref and let’s get a touchback,” except with a lot more fucks and shits.
Instead I said, “YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEAGGH!!! Fucking shit yeah!”
He did get knocked over...
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February 15, 2008
jonathantu
Western Michigan and Central Michigan combined for 17 points through 45:05 of play. In the last 14:55 the two MAC West rivals combined for 48 points, 24 of them in the final four minutes of regulation. The Broncos looked dominating in the first few series. Then the game got boring. Then Central went ...
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January 25, 2008
jonathantu
The Texas A&M Aggies are famous for many things: Friday night yell practice, the yell fish, kissing your girl after a score, kissing someone else’s girl after a score, Dat Nguyen, remarkably high ranking collies, so forth. A&M’s most famous aspect might be the idea of the 12th Man: an ent...
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January 25, 2008
jonathantu
That’s the balance in my checking account. Whoops.
Apparently you can not only continue using your debit card well past the $0.00 marker, you can do so with gleeful ignorance. For example: there are no Bank of Americas in Columbus, Ohio. I have been a member of Bank of America since I was 6 bec...
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January 25, 2008
jonathantu
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - After four days of martial law and nearly eight years under former President Pervez Musharraf, the Republic of Pakistan was restored to order by LSU (8-1, 5-1 SEC West) head coach Les Miles, who parachuted into the Muslim country in a daring pre-dawn raid.
“People of Pakis...
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January 25, 2008
jonathantu
After 90 consecutive days of travel I am, at last, typing this from Temple City, California. There’s one more regular season game left, and then the bowls. I suppose now’s a good time to mention that I’m going to some bowl games. I figure I can stick to California and see at least...
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January 25, 2008
jonathantu
There’s no way I can come up with a worse post title.
At the end of today I hope to be eating from one of those mutant birds you only ever see at a Lions’ Thanksgiving Day game: a Frankenfood monstrosity sporting six legs and the gleaming brown formica carapace of turkey skin baked to cri...
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January 25, 2008
jonathantu
Rank
Team
Delta
1
Ohio State
1
2
LSU
1
3
Oregon
–
4
Arizona State
2
5
Boston College
1
6
West Virginia
5
7
Kansas
2
8
Oklahoma
1
9
Missouri
1
10
Georgia
16
11
Boise State
5
12
Connecticut
12
13
Michigan
4
14
Virginia Tech
2
15
Alabama
3
16
Tenness...
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January 25, 2008
jonathantu
The story is carried by the Times and, more ominously, by the USC athletics’ site. USC has been at the Coliseum for 80 years and has renewed its lease on, from what I understand, a year-by-year basis. The Coliseum Commission has offered a 2-year lease. USC wants “improvements such as bath...
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January 25, 2008
jonathantu
One: The Onion’s Our Dumb World should be the first thing you buy when you stop reading this post. It is, miraculously, just as good as Our Dumb Century, which probably had as much to do with the development of my world view and sense of humor as anything else.
Two: this is now my life…
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January 25, 2008
USC Players Start "White Nation" Facebook Group
Several USC players have joined the group which featured a caption that said "arrest black babies before they become criminals." Clay Matthews, the player who created the group, used a textbook "I'm not a racist" apology by claiming his roommate and best friend are black. Some are calling the page an inside joke, but as you can imagine, not everyone finds race issues to be funny.
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March 09, 2007
U$C and their God Damned Recruiting
U$C and their damned recruiting classes, a great read if hating the know nothing jerks at Rivals and ESPNU.
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February 11, 2007
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