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USC Trojans (Football)

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    May 4, 2012

    Junior Seau: Death Makes Eight From His Team, Including Ex-WSU Coug Lew Bush

    When Seattle Weekly reported on the bankruptcy of former Husky and NFL star quarterback Mark Brunell in December, we also touched on other conflicts in the lives of ex-pro football players, including early deaths related to their playing days, such as suicides, as well as heart attacks in their 40s ... More >>

  • Arts

    December 21, 2011

    The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events

    When Seattle Weekly reported on the bankruptcy of former Husky and NFL star quarterback Mark Brunell in December, we also touched on other conflicts in the lives of ex-pro football players, including early deaths related to their playing days, such as suicides, as well as heart attacks in their 40s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 14, 2011

    Seahawks vs. 49ers

    When Seattle Weekly reported on the bankruptcy of former Husky and NFL star quarterback Mark Brunell in December, we also touched on other conflicts in the lives of ex-pro football players, including early deaths related to their playing days, such as suicides, as well as heart attacks in their 40s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    Seahawks on Monday Night Football: Season's Sink or Swim Game

    Image Source​ESPN is reportedly bringing 30 cameras to The Clink tonight to broadcast the Seahawks' Monday Night Football contest against the woeful Rams. It's a game that nobody outside of Seattle and St. Louis has any interest in watching, but the national spotlight and the Hawks' ever-so-sl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2011

    The Optimist's Guide to Husky Football: 11 Ways UW's 2011 Season Could Go Wonderfully Right

    Image Source​Yesterday we speculated about everything that could go horribly wrong with UW's 2011 season, giving a nightmarish breakdown of the worst-case scenario for every game on the schedule. Today it's time for the flipside: 11 ways the Huskies can come up Roses in the coming year. The fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    Rocky Seto, Seahawks Asst. Coach, Loses UCLA Defensive Coordinator Gig After Facebook Boasts

    ​It's always fun to see how long someone with a big announcement to make can hold out before they blast out the news on Facebook and Twitter. For Seahawks Secondary Coach and almost-UCLA Defensive Coordinator Rocky Seto, that amount of time was maybe a few hours. And unfortunately, while a lot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2011

    A Short Appreciation of Pete Carroll, Lovable Goofball

    ​Roughly a year ago today, when rumors first started swirling that Pete Carroll would soon be named coach of the Seattle Seahawks, my boss Mike Seely groaned and moaned (it's what he does best) about how Carroll was the wrong man for the job. Now, 12 months later, I feel like it's time for a r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    Seahawks Receiver Mike Williams Is Another 'Blind Side'

    ​A poor black teenager joins a rich white family on his way to becoming a star in the NFL. It's the plot of a best-selling book turned box-office hit. And as Slate pointed out last week, the remarkable thing about "The Blind Side" isn't that it's true, it's that the story it tells isn't unique ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2010

    Bill Clinton and Pete Carroll: Separated at Birth?

    ​Seahawks coach Pete Carroll and former President Bill Clinton hung out yesterday. Why? Well, because they once met at a USC practice a long time ago and then Clinton contributed a passage to Carroll's book and he was in town doing fundraising and...wait a second. Why am I explaining this? Isn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2010

    Marshawn Lynch Couldn't Stand Pete Carroll in College

    ​Former Cal running back and newest Seattle Seahawk Marshawn Lynch on how he felt about Pete Carroll back in his college days playing against USC: "I couldn't stand him. I couldn't stand him, man. Straight up, I couldn't stand him. He was one of the only coaches you'd see running up and down t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 8, 2010

    Seahawks vs. San Francisco 49ers

    ​Former Cal running back and newest Seattle Seahawk Marshawn Lynch on how he felt about Pete Carroll back in his college days playing against USC: "I couldn't stand him. I couldn't stand him, man. Straight up, I couldn't stand him. He was one of the only coaches you'd see running up and down t ... More >>

  • Arts

    September 8, 2010

    The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

    ​Former Cal running back and newest Seattle Seahawk Marshawn Lynch on how he felt about Pete Carroll back in his college days playing against USC: "I couldn't stand him. I couldn't stand him, man. Straight up, I couldn't stand him. He was one of the only coaches you'd see running up and down t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2010

    Is Matt Leinart Reuniting With Pete Carroll?

    ​The Arizona Cardinals have reportedly put Matt Leinart on the trading block. Once thought of as the team's quarterback of the future, the former USC star has had three disappointing seasons filled with inconsistent play, benchings and too much partying. Which is why it's terrifying that Seatt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Pete Carroll Should Have Stayed at USC, Says Journalist Who Probably Wouldn't Have

    ​There are lots of things Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll should have done. He should have asked Reggie Bush how his star running back came to be driving such a nice car around campus. He should have postponed the poorly-timed book tour that coincided with the news that the University of S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    Reggie Bush Loses Heisman For Crimes Less Heinous Than Double-Murder

    ​What does it take for a school to renounce your Heisman Trophy? Observe, two test cases, both involving University of Southern California running backs. One takes a rent-free house for his folks and a nice car for himself when he's an impressionable 19-year-old. The other nearly beheads his w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    Pete Carroll Continues to Play Dumb On HBO's "Real Sports"

    ​Pete Carroll should probably just stop doing interviews. By returning Reggie Bush's Heisman Trophy, Carroll's former school, the University of Southern California, has at least admitted some culpability in the violations that led to its two-year postseason ban, the harshest NCAA sanctions in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Pete Carroll Picked a Great Time to Go On a Book Tour

    ​Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll wants you to buy his book. It's called "Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion." And according to its front-jacket blurb, it's partly about how Carroll teaches his players to "always act as if the whole world is watching." Which is ironic co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    Pete Carroll Is Already On the Hot Seat?

    ​Mike Florio made his bones as a football-obsessed lawyer who spun his passion into a full-time reporting gig. His outsider-turned-insider pedigree gives him the aura of objectivity, but my god does it seem like he's got it out for Seahawks coach Pete Carroll. Florio wrote last week that Carro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Pete Carroll Is Shocked by USC Sanctions

    ​Pete Carroll left USC right before the school got docked with the heaviest penatlies the NCAA had levied in over a decade-and-a-half. Everyone and their brother knew the school had violated the rules. Everyone but the guy who coached the Trojans while some shady shit went down. Mr. Carroll's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    USC Gets Two-Year Postseason Ban, Pete Carroll Got Out Just In Time

    ​When Pete Carroll left USC to come coach the Seattle Seahawks, the general impression was that he had barely escaped a house set to implode. The NCAA had been conducting an investigation of the Trojans for four years. An almost endless peek into shady recruiting habits that finally came to an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    LenDale White Has "Slimmed Down" for the Third Time in His Young Career

    Ironic, because White is like the least slimming last name too.​New Seahawk LenDale White made his first appearance at Seattle's minicamp this weekend. Which means its time to read yet another story about how the husky running back has "slimmed down" over the offseason. Back in 2005, when Whi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    Anthony McCoy, USC Tight End and Seahawks' "Steal" of the Draft, Proves Dope Smokers Are a Bargain

    New rule: only draft stoners.​Matt Taibbi is probably best known as the guy who bitch slaps Goldman Sachs as often as the market bell rings. But he also knows his football. And one of Taibbi's guiding principles about how to conduct yourself during the NFL draft helps explain how the Seattle S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Oregon Football's Horrible Offseason Equals More Good News for Huskies

    All the hideous, Phil Knight-bought jerseys in the world can't save the Ducks from themselves.​Washington football needs all the help it can get. Thankfully, this offseason, the pigskin gods have bestowed many virtues upon the Huskies. First, the very mansome Jake Locker decided to stay in M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    Pete Carroll's Long-Distance Chairmanship of Inner-City Program Worries L.A.

    One of the ironies of the Seahawks' recent hiring of USC football coach Pete Carroll is that Los Angeles' much-admired inner-city program, A Better LA, is now being run from Seattle. Carroll founded the nonprofit group in 2003 and turned it into a powerful social and political organization. It ope ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    You Heard it Here Last: The Seahawks Did Not Smear Dog Shit on NFL's Rooney Rule

    Leslie Frazier: The poor, put-upon "minority candidate" who will one day soon make millions of dollars as a head coach.​The Seahawks search for a new head coach is controversial. Not because of who's being hired. But because of how. Since Friday, it's been assumed that USC head coach Pete Car ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    Pete Carroll to the Seahawks? Really?

    This colossal douche has a face Dawg fans understandably hate.​Recognize this face, Dawg fans? You hate it, right? I sure do. Why? Because it's Pete Carroll, USC's whiny, NFL failure of a coach--and the Seahawks evidently want to hire him to replace Jim Mora. If this is the move they're going ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2010

    Forget 2009: Mock Drafts Predict the Newest Seattle Seahawks

    FlickrC'mon Paul Allen, GM-of-the-future and Jim Mora's replacement: Give these fans something to smile about.​Last Sunday provided a fitting end to the Seattle Seahawks' 2009. Jim Mora slapped some players real hard on the shoulder pads in an effort to look coach-y, Matt Hasselbeck crumpled s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    Jake Locker Who? 2012 Washington Huskies Might Have Toughest Schedule in College Football

    If you just listened to Slate, you might expect to see a lot of plays end like this in 2012.​The great thing about sports is that no matter how good or bad you feel about your team's current prospects, there's always a chance to feel better, or worse, just by looking forward. Take Washington ... More >>

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    November 25, 2009

    Apple Cup

    If you just listened to Slate, you might expect to see a lot of plays end like this in 2012.​The great thing about sports is that no matter how good or bad you feel about your team's current prospects, there's always a chance to feel better, or worse, just by looking forward. Take Washington ... More >>

  • Arts

    November 25, 2009

    The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

    If you just listened to Slate, you might expect to see a lot of plays end like this in 2012.​The great thing about sports is that no matter how good or bad you feel about your team's current prospects, there's always a chance to feel better, or worse, just by looking forward. Take Washington ... More >>

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