PMSing over USC-Stanford

Since KLAC-AM (570) owns the radio rights to the entire Pac-10 men's basketball tournament that starts Wednesday and concludes with Saturday's final (3 p.m., Channel 2), they thought they'd add a little twist to the coverage of USC's first-round game Thursday against Stanford.
Over on KSPN-AM (710), the Trojans' flagship station, Rory Markas and Jim Hefner will do their call. But on 570-AM, Matt "Money" Smith has play-by-play duties and Petros Papadakis will be the colorman for the 6 p.m. tipoff at Staples Center.
The anti-broadcast? Oh, no. They're taking it seriously.
"Don Martin (the station's program director) considered flying me out to Washington D.C. last month to do the Lakers-Wizards game because Spero Dedes was missing it due to taking a job as international play-by-play man for the Super Bowl, but instead Don hired someone he knew out there to fill in," said Money. "I thought that guy was terrible, so in talking to Don about it, we thought, well, we're not on the air this week (after Monday's) show and this one falls right into our time slot (the "PMS" runs from 4-to-7 p.m. Monday through Friday, when there's no Lakers broadcast), so why not give the kids something to tune into.
"The best part is that basketball may be Petros' worst base of sports knowledge, so it'll be fun listening to him break down how the Lopez twins are playing until the wheels come off."
The tournament starts Wednesday with two games -- Oregon State-Cal (6 p.m.) and ASU-Washington (8:30) -- before Thursday's four contests that include Oregon-Arizona (noon, with Isaac Lowenkron on play-by-play), and then top-seeded UCLA and second-seeded Washington State taking on the winners of Wednesday's games (depending on how the seedings go).