08.26.10
St Louis Adult Entertainment: Best sports stories from the past week
Cue up the Count of Controversy, Lane Kiffin, to replace Carroll after a one-year fling with Tennessee. And in late spring, the Trojans were tenderized by the NCAA committee on infractions, dealing them a two-year bowl ban and loss of 30 scholarships over three seasons, one of the most thunderous penalties meted out over the last couple of decades.
So life around USC is a whirl: Five holdovers who left, none of them expected starters, plus two recruits who bailed on letters of intent; the adjustment to the brash Kiffin; and still, the possibility that if the Trojans’ heads are on right, they could run the table and be in the AP’s national-championship hunt.
“We win 13 games,” postulates cornerback Shareece Wright, “nobody can tell us we’re not the best team in the nation.”
The jury will be out this season, for sure.
1000 by Bud Withers in Los Angeles. (MOVED ON AUG. 18)
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