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Living on the West Coast, and having followed Pac 10 football for more years than I want to remember (I go back to the days of the Pac 5), I will be submitting blogs about the Pac 10 and it’s various teams. To start out, here is a quick breakdown of each team and their chances of winning the Pac 10 title this year:

Arizona: This normally defensive [...]

Unwilling to to sit back and watch USC hoard all the media attention this summer, three incoming UCLA recruits were arrested for an on-campus incident.

The perpetrators were incoming freshmen Paul Richardson, Shaquille Richardson, and Josh Shirley. All three are facing felony theft charges, with two of the young men released on $20,000 bail[...]

The possibility of adding Norm Chow to the new coaching staff only escalated the excitement over the new hire. Combining an offensive wizard with a defensive genius, along with two of the top recruiters in the country, the future appeared BCS crystal clear. But Norm is still sleeping with the enemy, committed to UCLA, and [...]

San Diego, CA—The fans walked away quietly clutching their little stuffed Bears. Or may be they were strangling them.
It wasn’t just a loss to the Utah Utes, it was the way their team lost that was so unnerving.
Cal was out coached. Cal was inept in defending the pass. Cal was lucky the Utes had to [...]

There’s bad blood brewin’—or ‘Bruin’—and as expected in a town featuring Hollywood as its backdrop, amateur screen writers will rush to prepare a script complete with villains, struggles, and an underdog shifting the balance of power to close the gap. But just as the silver screen is often filled with exaggeration, the battle for Los [...]

Silence has ended, and it’s now officially “on”.  Just hours after posting about a rivalry week lacking the pregame chatter, the UCLA campus is buzzing with anger and disappointment.  Despite precautions and volunteers to guard the massive on campus statue of their beloved Bruin bear, Trojan vandals have struck, giving the fixture that must needed [...]

Randall Carroll and Norm Chow have three things in common.  They were both at one time or another committed to the USC football program.  They’ve since become members of team UCLA.  And most recently, this coach and player are now tied to a Twitter incident where Carroll apparently used a racial slur in reference to [...]

Over the past seven seasons, no conference in America has been more maligned than the Pac 10.  Some may disagree, feeling the Big East and ACC have also suffered a fair amount of criticism.  But the difference is the representation of these conferences, and for seven consecutive years, Southern California has been the elite program [...]

If you’re a mid major program, situated in the west, and looking for an opportunity to become part of the BCS mix, expanding the Pac 10 to a twelve member league is a brilliant thought. But if you are the Pac 10, why would you do this? What do you gain with the increased membership [...]