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OK, but I’m more of a college football fan so here’s a picture of Reggie Bush at USC:

Okay, not a great season for USC football but on the bright side, the men’s water polo team won back-to-back national championships with a 7-6 win over UCLA in today’s title match.

T-shirts are available!

It hasn’t been a great season for Pete Carroll and the Trojans — but they’re still three touchdowns better than UCLA.

FIGHT ON!

Oregon has 80 different uniform combinations this season.

Like always, USC has two — home and away.

— University of Southern California Official Athletic Site

Notre Dame really believed this was going to be the year they ended the losing streak to USC. The university had pre-authorized the tearing down of the goal posts if the Irish won . . .

We hope to keep this thing going. It’s a big deal to us. It’s special. So we’ve got to hang onto it next time around when they come to our place. We have to get after it and see if we can keep the thing going. Because it’s very special for the SC family to continue to be on top of this rivalry.

— Pete Carroll

FIGHT ON!

Hi everybody! It’s me, Lightning!

I’m excited because this week is USC vs. Notre Dame, the greatest intersectional rivalry in college football!

I love USC because my owner went to USC. Hooray! I hate Notre Dame. Grrrrrrrrr!

Do you know what I do when Notre Dame beats USC? Neither do I because I’m only six years old.

— Lightning

We had good seats at the USC game today — Section 13, Row 1, right next to the field.

Now you might say, like my son did, that they would have been better on the 50-yard-line, but there are a couple of good things about those seats.

One is that they’re right next to the tunnel where the players come on and off the field, as do the song girls, the band and Traveler, so you get to interact with people — talk to the girls, high-five the guy on the horse, etc.

The other good thing is that the Trojans scored 6 out of 8 touchdowns in the west end zone right in front of us.

That’s my wife, me and a kid who looks a lot like my son except that he’s smiling. If you’re wondering about all the empty seats, the photo was taken near the end of the fourth quarter of a 56-3 game when a lot of people had already left.

We saw Matt Barkley play his first college football game today, a 56-3 win over San Jose State. If he turns out to be as good as a lot of people think he is, that will be a cool thing to remember . . .