Other Notes

-Looks like there is some bulletin board material out there for the Trojans. Rudy Carpenter and Mkristo Bruce both said that Cal will beat USC on November 18th. That can't be going over well in Heritage Hall. TrojanWire points out that Cal is also starting to talk, so I am sure USC will start talking back soon. Can we just advance the calender a month and watch this game already? Also, a belated thank you to the AP, who voted Michigan ahead of USC. OSU will now win that game and USC doesn't need to worry about the curse, just Cal.

-In USC basketball news, Tim Floyd has gotten a verbal from an eighth grader. And yes, you read that correctly. Apparently Floyd is clairvoyant and he can tell that once this 14 year old is eligible for NCAA play, he'll be worthy of a scholarship. I don't even know if you're allowed to recruit players that haven't even played high school games, but Floyd did it. This is either going to be incredibly awesome if he's good or incredibly awesome if he's terrible. I can't wait to see what the national media does with this.

-Lots of suspensions went down over the Miami-FIU fight, you can get a breadth of opinions over on ESPN. The headline to me is that Brandon Meriweather didn't get suspended more than just the one game over Duke. Watch him stomping at the FIU players again (BTW, this is the first video I ever put on YouTube. And yes, I am a narcissistic attention whore)


and tell me that he doesn't deserve something harsher than a single game suspension that just happens to be against the worst team in the ACC. I think SportsPickle comes up with a much better penalty for Miami.

-Building the Dam points out that Trent Edwards' senior season (and Stanford's only hope for victory) is over. Can we relegate them to 1-AA already? They also rose to #3 on ESPN's Bottom 10 this week. I think this punk-inspired quote sums up the Cardinal pretty well:

"I Wanna Be Sedated": If the Cardinal's nine-game losing streak extends much longer, that option might sound good to Walt Harris.

The FIU-Miami fight also makes the list at #5