Time for this week’s winners and losers, which of course includes a Diddy reference. And a Tee Martin (pictured above) reference too.
Winners
Tee Martin
Looks like he is staying at USC if his son (Amari Rodgers) committed. And Martin won’t even have to pay for room-and-board if he is on a full scholarship! Rodgers knows who to go to if he is not happy with playing time.
Garrett Stubbs
Johnny Bench Award winner is USC’s first since Jeff Clement in 2004.
Rising Stars camp
Fans gobble up reports of recruits talking about how much they loved USC.
Adrian Klemm
Diddy gets everyone to forget whatever it was Klemm did to get suspended.
Losers
Diddy
He’s become the poster child for Helicopter dads with one incident.
Reality
Has anyone ever had a “poor” performance or experience at the Rising Stars camp?
Matt Leinart
His image takes a hit with Orange County Register story detailing how his for-profit flag football league saved about $50,000 using city-owned facilities by registering as a non-profit. Not surprisingly, his brother and father are mentioned in the story.
Double numbers
Does USC really need two players on its football roster with Nos. 4, 7, 8, 10, 14, 23, 24, etc.?
Possibly both are winners – losers:
Pasadena (Rose Bowl) and/or Los Angeles (Memorial Coliseum) depending on one’s feeling towards the return of the NFL prior to final award of team/venue to be built (Inglewood or Carson).
Can’t believe there are people excited the Raiders may come back to L.A. We can do so much better.
Funny you mention that – Sam Farmer made note of that very item quote Pg. D3 last column on right side – paper edition “…And finally there are persistent rumors that some stadiums have blackballed the Raiders.”
Frankly screw the Rams – they bailed on the Coliseum in 1979 – they bailed on Angel Stadium in 1994 and they now are bailing on St. Louis regardless of the City of St. Louis spending $1 billion to bring their sorry back ends there – Kroenke doing to St. Louis what Shaw did to Anaheim.
Carmen Policy has a reasoned argument that allowing the Rams as lead will only render what ever 2nd team plays there as an ‘orphan’ just as the Jets were treated for many years as such by the Giants in the Meadowlands. That’s why as much as it seems the Rams have the best shot Goodell doesn’t want a second Jerry Jones on his hand (owner of BOTH the stadium and team) and this time in the nation’s 2nd biggest market.
If St. Louis comes up with a doable proposal – and that city is far more interested in doing so than San Diego or Oakland are it is going to be tough for the Rams to leave MO.
“Kroenke doing to St. Louis” – Stan bought the team after its prior owners passed away. Thus he is only bailing on St. Louis.
Personally, I’d like the Chargers to go to Anaheim and the Rams to Inglewood.
But putting both the Chargers & Rams in Inglewood is not beyond the realm, either.
The Raiders are non-starters except for the thug crowd.
The Chargers will never agree to go to Inglewood under the Ram’s as a ‘vassal’ which is why they sought out the Raiders as a joint 50:50 partner in the Carson deal. The Commissioner’s office (Goodell) is not about to force the Chargers to do so.
I understand per Kroenke but he is still using St. Louis – it is the reason any team has coveted LA – the value of any franchise leaving elsewhere and coming here increases dramatically immediately – if that weren’t the case Kroenke would stay put.
St. Louis lose the Cardinals to AZ and is now on the verge of also losing the Rams but with a big difference – people in St. Louis want the team to stay.
The Rams were always a ‘con’ – Frontiere and Shaw got deals the Angels were never allowed to have – they were able to retain the name ‘Los Angeles’ which the City of Anaheim thought no big deal – Moreno decides to do the same and Anaheim goes to court. When Shaw had squeezed what juice was left out of the City of Anaheim they blew town just like Kroenke is planning on doing to St. Louis now.
You can have the lousy Rams – blank em’!
Steve, I gotta say that hurts to hear you say that about my Raiders. But losing hurts more.
sas _ I’m w. you – Raiders any day any tme over the gutless Rams.
The Raiders may be brigands and vandals but at least they’re not smooth in their continuous plundering as the Rams were and are – . No one can use a pen the way the Rams mgmt. has. A $1 billion 20 years ago for that thieving cabal called the Rams – blank em’!
What the whore raiders did to L.A. should have been enough to teach a lesson. Rams should have stayed, but I will take them over the whore raiders and their thug “nation”.
Steve, I still hate the Rams for leaving LA and the Raiders are right behind after leaving the city.
Those “people” are the thousands of gang members and bikers who can’t wait for their return.
coincidentally, they’re all SC fans too.
Don’t like this segment, refuse to read it, but I guess Scottie will be doing this every week now.
Considering that the Rising Stars Camp had been closed to the public for the past five years, did you really think that the coaches were going to send out a press release naming the kids who performed poorly? Just because Kiffin publicly booted you from practice, it doesn’t mean he was in the business of bad mouthing 17 year olds just because they weren’t good enough to earn a scholarship to SC. Anyone with a modicum of critical thinking can figure out that for each kid who dominated the drills there were several others who were on the wrong side of those plays. I find it pretty telling that you are a little upset that there aren’t enough stories about kids who are in over their head at an elite camp. Sort of ironic for a guy who is a lifer at the LA Daily News.
Exactly…. and if any coach were to ever on record as saying that a particular player was in over his head, Scott would be the very first one to criticize the coach for ripping a 17 year old kid and how terrible it made the school look….Scott thinks that college football fans are like sheep led by the media……give us a LITTLE credit, Scott…..
That is what Aliosi did and look what the ‘parent’ did to him (Alisoi).
Scottie would be the first to rip the kid if it was reported they didn’t perform as well as others. This is what Scottie has always done.
Without a doubt, Scott is the BEST Monday morning QB in the history of modern journalism……
Seems to me it is more like TUESDAY morning.
Mr Robot:
I’m just a former basketball coach but doesn’t being a lifer at Daily News put Mr Wolf on the loser list?
JW
In a market like LA, he’s just in over his head a bit. Think of the Daily News as the San Jose St. of newspapers. Every pot needs a lid.
San Jose State?….. More like Stockton…..
Mr Robot
Agree with San Jose State to Daily News comparison but that would make Mr Wolf the field hockey assistant coach.
JW
I beg to differ but the Daily News has far better columnists than the Times The Daily News has better analysis of trends – Bonsignore’s analysis of the Rams, Chargers and Raiders moves counter-moves is far superior to anything Farmer has written.
Plaschke is a 100% politically correct buffoon – he reeks of a Bob Costas’ selection of what ‘matters’ to us – the ‘hoi polloi’. Probably wept when Bruce/Kaitlyn got the Espy award “…oh what a moment of triumph…..another saint’s courage to be all they can be has been honored….’ blah blah blah
Man I miss Simers
To each his own. I always thought Simers was a total hack and I heard from a few people that he was a pretty horrible person. His negative for its own sake approach wore thin really quickly and Wolf seems to think that limping out a cheaper knock off makes for good reporting. Aside from the regular posting old pictures, I think Scott hit the height of laziness when he posted a link to an OC Register a few days ago. There is a decent chance that fall camp coverage could just be a series of links to the non-premium Scout coverage.
Ok per Simers I don’t know ‘hearsay’ – that could be said about any of us regardless of it being true or not.
I don’t see any thing in the Times from Gary Klein in the off season per USC. Chris Dufresne drops off until mid-August and then he pops back up.
The Times has a history of being an activist paper per social issues but it is a dull paper per sports. Murray was an exception and per Simers?
He was funny – he made you read him. He drew your eyes when you saw his byline just as Howard Cossell did and I can tell you Cossell never had the sense of humor that Simers did. Simers with Fred Roggin were a great early morning act on the radio 5 years ago – the bore was his insipid daughter but those two were funny. He was also funny back in the day when FSN was trying to get off the ground and move from a regional sports outlet to a national one – he was an engaging and willing to ask what no one else would. I worked for the old H-E a long long time ago and the reporters that covered sports there was the greatest collection at that time of any paper in the USA. We’d have to drive up to the Times and pick up the UPI copy and walk through the Times press room – man night and day – boring, vanilla, antiseptic, dull just as their sports desk is today.
Sam Farmer’s account in today’s Times re. Carson vs. Inglewood and the Rams, Raiders and Chargers in the mix is no way near the insight Bonsignoire or Hoffarth have written
Good reporters write themselves into a columnist because that’s where the juice is – good seats, able to select events to cover, getting quoted, short interviews on talk radio etc.. That’s what Simers became and now he’s gone and none of us are the better for it.
Oh yeah sorry for this screed- the Times equivalent of an NFL team? The Rams – the conniving slimey Rams – blank ’em!
are you that easily impressed with yourself…..It’s no wonder you live alone..
fit ung…
#bigbagofhotair
Well lunchbag, it got you to reply –
It took you EXACTLY …ONE MINUTE to respond to my post…now that’s impressive…I guess there’s not much for you to do at the end of the month (no money left for HAPPY HOUR) until your Welfare Check arrives….
Ain’t that right, BOYO?
Fiuwvbt ung
Apparently Simers was an acquired taste that I never acquired. Simers was too sarcastic for his own good and too negative about coaches. And once the coaches were about to be fired, he would always write a “nice” article praising the coach after years of running him down. Karl Dullard was a perfect example. Dorrell was a bad coach at exactly the wrong time in comparison to Pete Carroll. However, he was a good human being and never deserved the Simers treatment.
Murray was one of a kind. He could be biting without being mean, which is not an easy trick. He had a great sense of humor and managed to be well liked AND well respected. Simers not even in the same ballpark with Murray.
Few there be that remember but when Simers first arrived on the scene he was very favorable towards UCLA and extremely harsh towards USC i.e. the Bruin player that got ‘outted’ driving around in a high end car from a Hollywood auto dealership – forget the name – Simers was apoplectic because it was a USC alum who dropped a dime on the story. I don’t recall too much outrage then – it seemed to ramp up when he swung his pen 180 degrees.
You’re right about his ‘remorse’ after the damage was done per a target.
You need a Walter Winchell – most of the columnists today in LA are dull and timid – I also believe they are bluntly lazy in terms of doing their job with Plaschke a big example of such – rarely any real news let alone a strong position ‘counter’ to the ‘cultural times we live in’ mentality.
Simers had nerve rarely seen in sports journalism – yes he asked and stated harshly but his position was “…you’re paid a lot more than the readers and fans who support your team – tough luck – why did such and such happen on your watch?”
Have to say what was LOL was Simers contending he had health issues and suing for such considering the angina he hurled – biggest hard landing was his moving onto the Register and its well deserved Siberian abode – Santa Ana.
Not Dullard, Duh-rell. You ruin rah rahs are just like the SC rah rahs- no sense of humor.
Losing 230 straight Comic Con Best Wookie Costume Contests puts you on the list, Golly_Nerd. Better luck this weekend!
Winners:
Sark – if Tee Martin is still on-staff, Amari Rodgers would receive free tuition and wouldn’t count against the Trojans’ 2017 scholarship total.
wrong.
Is that another stupid NCAA rule, that the kid of every other university employee gets free tuition except those that are an athlete?
Of course, it’s not a controversy at state schools, where the state does the same thing, right?
Not more malpractice?
No, you’re wrong. He can walk-on. Caleb Wilson did the same thing. Of course some of these kids ego’s gets in the way. As the son of a school employee he will receive full tuition, and now walk-on players can eat at the training table.
YOU might want to stop by the TIRE STORE on your way home….The AIR in your head appears to be a little low..
feiythg ung
You’re right, if he walks on, like Coach Wilson’s son Caleb.
Jalen Hill, 5 star center commits to UCLA for 2017.
Anyone playing for Andy in 2015.
Jalen Hill is about as ready for college basketball right now as Noah Allen. But you get too excited, you might wanna watch his video highlights. Those 5-Stars are based on projecting forward, not on readiness to play.
which is cool, because he’s a 2017 recruit.
Lol at thinking Jalen Hill is a 5 star recruit.
I’m surprised Wolf didn’t mention himself as a winner of the week, I’ll let you figure out why he would be a winner.
If Wolf doesn’t like the info he steals from the pay sites…. instead of whining about it, why doesn’t he just go to the Rising Stars camp himself and do his own reporting?
I wouldn’t trust his evaluation skills….
goes without saying, but the point still stands