One Sack

And as is the case with the prototypical Scott Wolf version of gonzo-journalism, more of the story is left out than is actually included.
For example, in the 75% of the story that he left out is this little tidbit, all but 3 of Tuitama's pass plays began out of the shotgun. Wolf may be unfamiliar with the shotgun covering the Trojans due to the fact that USC is allergic to running that formation and will break out in a teamwide rash if it ever attempts it in a game, but nonetheless a key fact undisclosed.

Interestingly, Wolf never seems to forget to include bits of the story that give it context when seeking to discredit a positive statistic. Witness his parsing of Joe McKnights rushing stats from Saturday where he never once fails to include something like "of course, 59 of those yards came on one play, he was 12 for 16 yards otherwise."
Hmm, okay, how about including he lost 10 yards on a fumbled play as well if you want to contextualize his carries. Then he was 11 for 26. A paltry 2.4 a carry but about average for a boom-bust back like Joe. Add it all together, the good with the bad, 59 and -10 and you get the nice 70 plus yards, which is really all that should have been reported.

Scott Wolf, forging a new breed of journalism, where what isn't said is always more important than what is. I'm gonna call it Shadow-Journalism, with a respectful nod to the late Hunter S. Thompson.
Fear and Loathing in The Coliseum, indeed.

Brilliant post, Baxterbob.

Maybe USC should include a statistics class in its journalism curriculum?