USC plays Washington State University this week, which reminds me of the high school football game that just finished at 91-0. Your children have certainly been on the end of a blowout, whether up, or down. Either way, it rarely feels like their finest hour. In competition, rational people love a close contest.
USC is facing my alma mater; Wazzu is just about as pathetic a team as exists this season in Div. I. Several years ago, I played two years for the Cougars; the second year we were 2-9, though with a few breaks, it could have been 5-6. This team is so, so bad, that I worry the Trojans could hit the century mark. And that would be a shame. It wouldn't move up USC in the rankings and it would create an afternoon of infamy. P.S.: The high school game in question was played in Florida. Final: Naples High 91, Estero 0.
Hey, Trojans, would you settle for 37-3? I would. Write in with your predictions of this Saturday's final score.
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- Craig Reem was born in Los Angeles on a record-hot day (“It was hell,” his mom says), his oldest son was born on a tragic day (Northridge earthquake), his wife was born in a city that has seen better days (Buffalo, N.Y.), and he has a set of twins. Is that too much information? Probably. But he promises that his ocdad blogs will be right on point. Craig lives in Orange County with his wife, Nikki, of 20 years, and their children, Nick, 13½, and Nathan and Christopher, 10.
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- “City Lights” (1931, Chaplin’s silent classic about a tramp who befriends and helps a blind girl)
- “The Kid” (1921, silent film about a tramp’s effort to raise an orphan in the midst of poverty)
- “Adventures of Robin Hood” (1938, Errol Flynn is the dashing hero in action adventure)
- “Bringing Up Baby” (1938, Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn run about in this screwball comedy that includes Baby, the pet leopard)
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- “The Lion King” (1994, Disney animated classic with a compelling story and music that is second to none)
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- “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937, the first full-length animated movie, and perhaps still the best)
- “The Sound of Music” (1965, one of the great musicals about a family whose talent nearly leads to tragedy)
- “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962, a faithful adaptation of the book about a single father in the South whose children become entwined in the racial times)
- “Wizard of Oz” (1939, you’ll soon find out why Dorothy isn’t in Kansas anymore)
3 comments:
Hey, Coach.
I don't have any predictions about the USC game (I lost $2,000 in the 2005 Super Bowl -- I am *NOT* kidding), but the USC/WSU game reminds me of one thing:
Weren't the Trojans supposed to smoke Oregon State??
Speaking of college football, has Coach Dad blogged about the BCS vs. a Div. 1 playoff? I have my VERY strong opinion (in a nut shell, "money talks..."), but this subject is just food for thought...
L.U.
The U.S. Department of Energy plans to provide $10 million over the next five years to Washington State University researchers to create an Institute for Shock Physics as part of DOE's strategic investment in selected scientific disciplines important to science based stockpile stewardship.
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hennry
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Century mark!!??!! Please don't make this SC fan any more unsettled than he already is over the 42-point spread being given by the odds makers. Memories of last year's Stanford game are still too distressingly fresh.
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