Wednesday Hot Links

Football

• Still bitter that USC got left out of the national championship game in January 2005? In retrospect, it was still the biggest BCS slight of the decade. [ESPN]
• On the plus side, Pete Carroll is the coach who has most defined the BCS era. [ESPN]
• Here's a Vegas-style analysis of USC's national title chances. Be forewarned, the language is R-rated. Though there are a couple of errors (some self-admitted), it's still interesting to think about the odds. [Money Line Journal]

Hoops

• No big surprise, the NBA Players Assn. is investigating BDA and O.J. Mayo. [ESPN]
• Chad Ford says watching DeMar DeRozan is like stumbling into a diamond mine. "From what I saw in roughly an hour, he's the real thing. Playing against college veterans three to four years older than him, he was dominant. He already has a pro body and a very smooth offensive game. He reminds me a lot of Dwyane Wade." [ESPN Insider, subscription required]

Not Sports

• Holly Ashcraft pleaded guilty to dumping her newborn in a dumpster behind a USC hangout. [L.A. Times]
• USC is home to a vibrant Indian community. I tried the naan at Manas yesterday -- tasty! [L.A. Times]
• Topping has been toppled. [TrojanWire]

Comments

[Bobak]

I somehow missed the whole Holly Ashcraft... which is alarming because there was a similar incident while I was a student in 1996/97. The girl dumped it into Century or Cardinal Garden's trash shoot.

[sandra m]

Re: Holly Ashcraft
Why is it there was no discussion of the men Ms. Ashcraft had sex with (among whom would be the babies' fathers)? Did the prosecution investigate them? Maybe they could shed light on Ashcraft's frame of mind during the pregnancies. Maybe they influenced and/or participated in her decision regarding the fetuses.