Latest Scott Olin Schmidt Stories

• Future Trojan Barkley Wins Gatorade Honor
• By Scott Olin Schmidt 7/17/2008 12:12 PM ET
• Future USC Trojan Matt Barkley made history yesterday when he became the first high school junior to take home top honors at the Gatorade High School athlete of the year awards. Barkley received the ...
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• The Slow Death of Rule 3-2-5e
• By Scott Olin Schmidt 7/11/2008 11:52 AM ET
• Last year, cheers went up around the college football world celebrating the demise of rule 3-2-5e, an NCAA effort implemented in 2006 to speed up the game of college football. While a number of ...
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• Cindy McCain's Gender Transformation?
• By Scott Olin Schmidt 7/10/2008 4:22 PM ET
• Something strange jumped out to the Inside USC blog in today's Los Angeles Times Opinion section. In an article over calling USC the, "University of Spoiled Children," author Rob Long begins, "A few ...
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• Chris Galippo Goes in for Surgery
• By Scott Olin Schmidt 7/10/2008 11:33 AM ET
• Rey-Rey Maualuga is going to have to find a new backup, as the USC linebacking corps has suffered its first major setback of the 2008 season. USC redshirt freshman linebacker Chris Galippo has played ...
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• UCLA's Brittle Bruin Quarterbacks
• By Scott Olin Schmidt 4/29/2008 12:01 PM ET
• Last year, the University of California at Los Angeles went through four starting quarterbacks in a season which failed to meet expectations. New head coach Rick Neuheisel and offensive coordinator ...
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• Mustain Seeks Prolonged QB Battle
• By Scott Olin Schmidt 3/24/2008 11:45 AM ET
• The start of Spring Football could not come a day sooner for the USC Trojans after the heralded Men of Troy Basketball squad went one-and-done in the NCAA Tournament--and there is good reason to pay ...
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• An NFL Future in LA?
• By Scott Olin Schmidt 1/22/2008 6:08 PM ET
• It has been twelve years since the Rams and Raiders left Los Angeles, and with the recent passing of Georgia Frontiere, one of the last people to own a pro football team in Southern California, it is ...
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• Mythbusting: Vikings to L.A. Coliseum?
• By Scott Olin Schmidt 12/20/2007 3:15 PM ET
• Why did the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission reject USC's offer on Wednesday to conditionally accept an agreement to allow the Trojans to play in the Coliseum? When we first heard of USC's ... More »
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• USC Corners Coliseum Commission in Negotiations
• By Scott Olin Schmidt 12/17/2007 8:53 PM ET
• After considering last week's proposal by the Coliseum Commission to enter into a long-term lease with USC, have the public entity raise the funds for stadium improvements, and promise no NFL team ... More »
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• Coliseum Deal is a Dud for USC
• By Scott Olin Schmidt 12/14/2007 4:51 PM ET
• After being admonished last week by the Rose Bowl Operating Company to grow up and negotiate with the University of Southern California, the Coliseum Commission, which oversees the storied stadium ...
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• Villaraigosa Routes Roadmap to Peace Between USC, Coliseum
• By Scott Olin Schmidt 12/05/2007 5:15 PM ET
• Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa came out before today's meeting of the Coliseum Commission to map a strategy for achieving peace between the stadium officials and their main tenant--the ... More »
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• Longshore Injured Long Before Cal Collapse
• By Scott Olin Schmidt 12/04/2007 1:12 PM ET
• Were it not for all the other wackiness in College Football this season, the collapses of California and Oregon Football would be among this year's major story lines. As both teams were poised to take ... More »
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• Pete Carroll Knows OJ (Mayo)
• By Scott Olin Schmidt 12/03/2007 6:12 PM ET
• In case you thought that the USC Trojans weren't going to take the University of Illinois seriously in its Rose Bowl match-up, just take a look at what Pete Carroll and the Coaching staff did on ...
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• Petersen Takes Pass on UCLA Job
• By Scott Olin Schmidt 12/03/2007 5:27 PM ET
• Just minutes after UCLA announced that it would have a head coaching vacancy in its football program, its leading candidate turned down the job. Boise State head coach Chris Petersen, identified this ... More »
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• Council Fiddles As Coliseum Issue Burns
• By Scott Olin Schmidt 12/03/2007 4:11 PM ET
• If the Los Angeles City Council is taking USC's threat to move to the Rose Bowl seriously, they certainly are not showing it. Last week, Councilmmbers Jack Weiss--who represents UCLA territory--and ... More »
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• UCLA Dumps Dorrell
• By Scott Olin Schmidt 12/03/2007 3:35 PM ET
• Score one for the internets and the folks at DumpDorrell! Brian Dohn, UCLA beat reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News reported this morning that UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero has fired Karl ... More »
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• Three Make UCLA Short List
• By Scott Olin Schmidt 12/03/2007 12:30 PM ET
• Spurning the advances of former Bruin Rick Neuheisel, UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero has narrowed his list of candidates for the football head coaching job to three. According to both local ...
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• BCS Still Hates the Pac Ten
• By Scott Olin Schmidt 12/02/2007 9:14 PM ET
• Since joining the Bowl Championship Series system, the Pac Ten has been the perennial odd-man out, and history repeated itself again as the Kansas Jayhawks were selected to play in the Orange Bowl, ... More »
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• Mayor Asks Schwarzenegger to Terminate USC Rose Bowl Plan
• By Scott Olin Schmidt 11/29/2007 12:09 PM ET
• Yesterday, FanHouse pointed out how Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa could forge a coalition to keep the USC Trojans in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum by bringing together his two votes with ...
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• Villaraigosa Urges USC-Coliseum Deal
• By Scott Olin Schmidt 11/28/2007 9:25 PM ET
• In one of the most strongly-worded statements on the future of the NFL in Los Angeles, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a UCLA alumnus, implored his colleagues on the Coliseum Commission to get over their ... More »
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