Innocent until proven guilty. That’s what I always say. But it may be reasonable to assume that there is something unsavory going on when someone is investigated for Sexual Assault in TWO different incidents, in TWO different states, simultaneously. Trojan Sophomore Linebacker Osa Masina is in quite a pickle right now, as Salt Lake City Police AND Los Angeles Police are both looking into Osa’s affairs. A search warrant has been executed, and sc has already suspended him for their upcoming showdown with Alabama.
Osa is listed as a back-up Linebacker, but was slated to get plenty of playing time against the Tide. And when facing the Nation’s best team, you need all your guns blazing, so Osa’s absence will hurt the trojans’ chances to pull off an upset. To make matters worse for Troy, Masina is actually the SECOND player to be suspended for this game — Cornerback Isaiah Langley already received a suspension, after getting arrested at UCLA, for drunkenly refusing to leave a frat party.
What kind of criminals is sc recruiting? What kind of culture are they cultivating over there? Nature or Nurture? Are they ATTRACTING thugs, or TURNING THEM INTO thugs once they enroll? Two alleged scumbags exposed already, and the season hasn’t even started yet. Carroll and Garrett may be gone, but the song remains the same at the school that unleashed O.J. Simpson on society, and continues to honor that monster with every game they play, by displaying a giant tribute to him in the Coliseum. SC fans love their gangster image, and they continue to earn it, by signing low life delinquents, and enabling them, with the essence of entitlement for which u$c is infamous. The beat goes on… and so do the beatings and other crimes. SC Clown College now aspires to equal the reputation of Integrity currently owned by Trump University.
]]>All that talent. All that money. Pissed away by a total loser trojan. Once again, former trojan QB Todd Marinovich has been taken away in handcuffs. Last night in Irvine, Police responded to a call about a man wandering naked on a path. Upon arrival, they found the u$c star buck naked, with weed and drug paraphernalia, in someone else’s backyard.
As I have said many times here over the last dozen years, POT is no big deal, and I don’t think it should even BE a crime. BUT… Pot doesn’t make you get naked and wander around Orange County. It is reasonable to assume that another substance was involved in this incident, be it PCP, LSD, or Todd’s old friend, Heroin. And abuse of heroin does NOT get a free pass from me.
[IT WAS METH!!]
Some people are complaining that drug addiction is a serious disease and shouldn’t be made light of. Ordinarily I might agree. However, when the person was a jerk to begin with, and throws away all the advantages of wealth and power to waste his life getting stoned, then the downfall could be considered JUSTICE. I am a big fan of karma, and it looks like Marinovich has fallen victim to just that.
Everybody deserves a second chance, and some compassion. But how bad should we feel for a guy with THIS track record:
1990 – Busted for Cocaine possession, just a month after the Sun Bowl (suggesting that he was doing drugs while QB at SC);
1992 – Cut from Raiders after only 2 years due to repeated drug use;
1997 – Felony charge of growing pot, and another charge for illegally possessing prescription meds;
2000 – Arrested on suspicion of Heroin possession;
2001 – Cut from L.A. Avengers after the Heroin bust;
2005 – Arrested for drug possession;
2007 – Charged with Felony possession of a controlled substance, unauthorized possession of a hypodermic needle, and resisting arrest;
[Dates estimated]
How is THAT for a rap sheet? More fitting for a Gangster Rapper than a Football Icon? Deserving of sympathy? He had all the money in the world to get professional help. It’s not like he slipped through the cracks of a damaged welfare system. Remember the famous photo of him flipping off a Bruin player who was trying to help him up off the ground? Well, I choose to believe that THAT is the true essence of this man. And this guy flitted away his wealth, power, and talent, and CHOSE a life of crime. Blame the addiction if you want — I will blame the man himself, and find satisfaction in his continued demise.
]]>Another NON-shocker: Another Pete Carroll trojan is busted for illegal drugs. Coincidence this is NOT. A blatant pattern of drug abuse and performance-enhancment has been clearly established, yet some trojans are still in full denial. The before-and-after photos of Brian Cushing were not enough to convince them. Dr. Ting’s shameful legacy was not enough to convince them. Even Carroll’s continued steroid scandals — as his Seahawks led the NFL in steroid suspensions — was still not enough to convince them that the trojans’ so-called glory years (which led to sanctions and the vacating of wins) was fueled by steroid abuse.
Everyone whose ego isn’t wrapped up in the ugly, crime-infested confines of Figueroa Tech knows the truth — That Carroll’s CULTURE of Cheating and Win-at-all-costs attitude has bred this contempt for the rules by his players. If you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying. That’s the mantra that trojans carry right into Professional Sports. And now for the latest perp, Taylor Mays, the “cost” is about to get expensive. SC may think they own the LAPD, but they don’t own the NFL.
Mays was recently suspended for four games due to failing a drug test. But the Bengals, who have a long history of signing players with criminal pasts, didn’t do anything about it. Not until yesterday, when reports indicated that Mays allegedly failed another test and is facing even MORE suspension time. That news finally inspired Cincinnati to release Mays from the team. However, the Bengals will always be the Bengals, so they announced that they still may re-sign Mays after the suspension is over… Until suspension #3.
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UCLA is the most applied-to school in the World. It’s hard to get in, and thousands of people get turned away every year. And of those thousands, lots of them end up SETTLING for u$c, but wishing they could have been Bruins. And never before has there been such a perfect illustration of that fact: This May, a player from the trojan football team named Isaiah Langley got busted — at a UCLA Fraternity party — because he couldn’t stand leaving the beautiful Westwood environment. Too bad there’s not an audio tape of the arrest, where we might have heard him begging the cops: “Please don’t send me back to South Central!”
Langley was arrested at the party, for suspicion of being under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Apparently, he gave the arresting officers a false age, then resisted arrest, and refused to leave the party (hence, the Trespassing charge). Sounds like just another arrogant, entitled trojan who thinks the laws don’t apply to him, and that sc owns the Police.
Langley has now been suspended for only ONE GAME, for “violating team rules.” Unfortunately for him and sc, that one game is against reigning National Champions Alabama, in a nationally televised game from Arlington, Texas. You may be thinking that it is unlike sc to suspend a player for an important game. But remember that Langley was not a starter last year, and that sc’s slim chance of pulling off an upset would not be greatly enhanced by Langley’s participation.
And as usual, a trOJan who has “allegedly” broken the law will get away scot free. Instead of getting the criminal record he reportedly deserves, Langley will be enrolled in a “Neighborhood (IN)Justice Program.” Just like former trojan Nelson Agholor, who was accused of Sexual Assault, but will NOT be prosecuted due to the proverbial “lack of evidence.” u$c has always had a MACHINE that perverts the justice system, but Agholor is in the NFL now, and that League’s machine puts sc’s to shame. So Nelson was never really in jeopardy of facing any justice, especially considering that strippers aren’t respected as witnesses. But keep watching — A trojan never changes his stripes, so maybe when a pattern of abuse becomes apparent, or when they steal some memorabilia at gunpoint, Langley and Agholor will be held accountable.
]]>They say you don’t have to be old to be wise, but apparently, you can’t be Young.
Everyone over the age of five knows that there are certain things that you just don’t do — certain things that are just SO stupid that you would never even THINK of doing them — because they could easily be fatal. Near the top of this list are: Staring down the barrel of a gun, sticking a fork in a toaster, and holding a lit firework. But that last one is exactly what ex-trojan Basketball player Nick Young did yesterday while celebrating the 4th of July.
In case you think I am making this up or exaggerating, the VIDEO of this incident is all over the internet for your enjoyment. After the fuse of this explosive is already lit and burning down, brain surgeon Nick Young & Dumb picks it up and holds it, while it goes off in his hands. It is a miracle that he was not injured or killed, and therefore not eligible for the 2016 Darwin Award, which goes to idiots who kill themselves by doing something overwhelmingly stupid.
This was not an isolated incident for this apparently braindead ex-trojan, who apparently did not embrace education as a “student” at u$c. Maybe they should have enrolled him in a class that teaches basic survival skills — Skills like not jumping into the Lion’s habitat at the zoo, or running across the 405. Young has already cemented himself into the Hall of Shame of Stupidity, by getting in trouble for lewd behavior and making sexual gestures at a woman (who campaigns against NBA players’ sexual misconduct), and her mother, in a car at an intersection, then got caught on tape talking about cheating on his fiancé Iggy Azalea, who then left him. And completing his four-way Imbecile Superfecta, he tried to get a tattoo that said “rebel,” but he mistakenly ordered it to be spelled “reble.” This guy is truly the poster boy for u$c academics.
At least now we know what it means when someone says trojan basketball is really blowing up. Or maybe Young just misunderstood after so many Laker fans this year told him to get blown.
]]>MAYO THE HORSE BE WITH YOU. Well, we don’t know if he was using horse (i.e. heroin), cocaine, PCP, LSD, or amphetamines, but ex-trojan screw-up O.J. Mayo was kicked out of Basketball yesterday for at least TWO YEARS, for testing positive for one of those banned substances. Specifically what THE HECK IS IN THE MAYO is anyone’s guess, but it wasn’t Miracle Whip.
This latest cheating incident is not Mayo’s first: Five years ago, he was suspended by the NBA for taking STEROIDS. Nothing new for a trojan, who went to “school” for a year at the institution infamous for juiced-up athletes. Also while at that so-called school known as Southern Cal, Mayo was embroiled in a SCandal where it was uncovered that Mayo was “illegally” paid to play for u$c, with envelopes stuffed with cash. SC endured sanctions after these charges were found to be completely credible. And before that, Mayo was implicated in a marijuana investigation, making these new drug charges equally credible. Once an addict, always an addict. It’s a not-unreasonable assumption that there could be more drugs in O.J. Mayo than in the Mayo Clinic.
In 2018, the League and the Players Association will contemplate re-instating Mayo. But it is not a foregone conclusion. They will consider his behavior over the two years that he is on suspension, and whether he has completed rehab, and whether he can then be a good role model to youths around the Country and the World. Based on Mayo’s despicable conduct over the last decade, I find it highly unlikely that he will qualify for reinstatement, based on these criteria. I would be surprised if even Best Foods would hire this possible Horse Addict to hawk their famous product, despite the obvious slogan: “Mayo Neighs for Mayonnaise.”
]]>Hi everyone. Yesterday, I received an email from a longtime BeatSC.com reader, who is about to be entering UCLA as a new student. He would like to hear your opinions of a MALE joining the legendary UCLA Dance Team, which, to this point, has always been exclusively female.
The Spirit Squad is made up of FOUR units: The Dance Team, The Cheer Squad, The Yell Crew, and The Mascots. Males have always, for as long as I can remember, been a huge part of the last three of those units. Personally, I would like to keep the Dance Team exclusively female. I detailed my feeling about this in my article after the Auditions this May, because there was a Male trying out for Dance. Here is a link to that article: http://beatsc.com/my-heart-is-breaking-bad/#comments .
Again, I apologize for my strongly-worded opinion. I don’t want to appear sexist, old-fashioned, or inconsiderate of anyone’s rights to pursue their dreams — But I have to be honest with you and share my real feelings, as outdated or out-of-touch as they may be.
Anyway, this kind, polite reader asked me to elicit YOUR opinions on this issue. Please be nice in your responses — for all I know, this reader IS the young man who auditioned for the team.
Thanks. Now just to get this article more exposure, here are the last 50 photos I want to share from those very same 2016 Auditions.
]]>They say Love is blind, but tonight, Love is bling, as former UCLA Star Kevin Love earned an NBA Championship Ring with his stellar performance in Game 7 of the NBA Finals. Love pulled down a remarkable 14 Boards, including 7 in just the First Quarter alone, as the VISITING Cavaliers set the physical tone for the evening. Love also added 9 Points and 3 Assists, but after being maligned as a poor defender on the Bruin Zone Message Board this week, it is ironic and satisfactorily fitting that it was a Defensive play that made Love one of the Clevland heroes.
While it is understandable how LeBron James won the Finals MVP Award, what with his superlative Games 5 and 6 (41 Points in each) and his Triple-Double in Game 7 (only the third one ever in a Finals Game 7 joining Laker Greats Jerry West and Big Game James Worthy), LBJ was not exactly super-clutch in this game. He missed 3 shots in the final 4:13 of the 4th quarter, added an unforced Turnover, and then bricked a Free Throw with 10 seconds left that could have iced the game. He rattled in the next Free Throw which saved him from being the potential goat, but he was hardly the CLOSER that Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant proved to be time after time.
It was actually Love and Kyrie Irving who made the crucial plays at the end to clinch the Title. With the score tied in the final minute, Irving hit a very tough, tightly-contested three-point shot that turned out to be the game-winner. Irving was huge in their 4 wins, and some people think HE should have been the Finals MVP. I might give the nod to James, because he did so much in so many categories, on both ends of the floor, BUT, it shouldn’t have been unanimous, and I think “co-MVP’s” would have been a legitimate decision as well.
Back to that final minute, after Irving’s potential dagger — It was Love who stepped up to cement the victory. Down by three, the Warriors predictably went to Steph Curry, who happens to be (arguably) the best three-point shooter in NBA History (with apologies to Bruin Reggie Miller, who is in that discussion despite lesser-quality teammates). When the play found a slower-than-Curry Kevin Love stuck guarding Curry one-on-one, Golden State fans were confident that Curry could muster up a great look. But despite several elusive moves and fakes, Love was tenacious and unrelenting. He kept getting back in Curry’s face, and ultimately harassed him into heaving up a brick. Golden State had to foul LeBron, and after James shakily made his second attempt, the game was history.
Speaking of history: This was the first Championship for the Cavaliers in franchise history. It was also the first championship in ANY major sport for the City of Cleveland since 1964, ending a 52-year drought. And finally, it was the first time in NBA history that a team came back to triumph in the Finals after being DOWN 3 games to 1.
So ultra-congratulations to Kevin Love and his Cavs, who failed to beat the Warriors in last year’s Finals when Love (and Irving) were out with injuries. Looks like the secret ingredient (to LeBron’s success) is a pinch of LOVE… okay, okay… and several pounds of Irving.
]]>On June 30th, Pat Haden will step down as u$c’s Athletic Director… and not a moment too soon. With a new story just released in the L.A. Times accusing him of the de facto embezzlement of millions, he probably would have been fired in disgrace if he wasn’t already “retiring” from his position.
For all the gory details about how Haden and two of his family members duped this worthy scholarship charity out of so much money, I suggest you go read the original exposé in The Times. But basically, the Haden clan took HUGE salaries for hardly any work at all. They got paid WAY more than other similar charity employees/directors. Experts say that the Hadens’ ultra-lucrative compensation was UNHEARD OF in the Charity community.
Not only did the Hadens POCKET ridiculous amounts for themselves, but they also steered most of the actual scholarships to u$C, at the expense of every other worthy school. u$c says that Haden “recused himself” when SC was involved as a potential recipient, but a follow-up investigation uncovered multiple examples of paperwork that implies that Haden was personally involved in directing the funds to his precious school — and his own Athletic Department.
For years and years, people have been singing the praises of Pat Haden, and his squeaky-clean lawyer image, especailly when he was tabbed to clean up the sanctioned mess left behind by arrogant sleazeball trojan Mike Garrett. I’ve been insisting the whole time that it was simply a well-managed facade, and that Pat was always involved in shady dealings, ever since the 70’s when he was mentored by head SCumbag John McKay. But no one would listen to me, until recently.
Haden’s image first started getting tarnished publicly when he cowardly and classlessly fired Lane Kiffin on the tarmac at LAX after a humiliating loss. Then when Haden ran down from the pressbox to the field to accost a referee in the middle of the game, he lost any respectability or dignity that he had remaining. Then, he hit what I thought was rock bottom because of the way he terminated Steve Sarkisian — in a voice mail, despite Sark suffering from the debilitating disease of Alcoholism. But NOW, he has hit a new low, with this devastating article illustrating how he has been — for years and years — despicably manipulating a charity just to line his own pockets, and the purses of his daughter and sister-in-law. I think, finally, Haden’s reputation is shot to Hades.
]]>It’s only June, so despite ESPN rolling them out already, it’s WAY too early to discuss preseason Football polls. Meanwhile, ex-trojan Nelson Agholor MAY have whipped out HIS pole prematurely as well, as a 27-year old Exotic Dancer from the Cheerleaders Gentlemen’s Club in South Philly has accused the current Philadelphia Eagle Wide Receiver of sexual assault. Of course, Rape and Sexual Assault cover a wide array of acts, so the only pole involved may have been the brass one she was dancing on.
Speaking of that wide array, the recently infamous “Stanford Rapist” Brock Turner may soon have company in the headlines from Agholor, but not in his cell, as Turner’s ridiculously lenient 3-month incarceration (for his “20 minutes of action”) will be over before Agholor could be convicted and sentenced to join him. Let’s hope that IF (and ONLY if) Nelson is guilty, he gets a much more JUST punishment.
But Agholor — or “Shagholor,” as he may now be called by the tabloids — might never even be charged with a crime. Exotic Dancers are not usually afforded a lot of credence in cases like this. The high-powered lawyers and reps of the NFL and rookie bust Agholor are already claiming that this is nothing more than a set-up, and that the case will never move forward. Since it is not a huge stretch to believe that a poor, struggling stripper could easily TARGET a millionaire NFL player, NELSON may ultimately get the last HA-HA.
Regardless of the certain upcoming attacks on the character of the alleged victim, Philadelphia Police Special Victims Unit is indeed investigating the incident, trying to view the club’s surveillance video to determine if a crime was committed. Two of Agholor’s Eagle teammates have already admitted being with him in the strip joint, but they have both already disavowed having any knowledge of any illegal incident.
Since the NFL and its players have such a glaringly bad reputation lately, especially in terms of violence against women, it wouldn’t take a conspiracy theorist to speculate that the Dancer’s cooperation (i.e. silence) will be bought, by the League’s powerful machine. Scandal Fixers are probably being mobilized tonight as we speak, to bury this whole thing, which may make Agholor feel like he is right back at home, in the friendly confines of his beloved University of Southern Cal, where they notoriously “own the police” and can get away with (double-) murder.
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