The Messenger
Most of you never heard of Louis Johnson before Sunday's ESPN story. He was a sportswriter at the Long Beach Press-Telegram for many years and considered an authority on high school basketball, especially in the Long Beach-Compton area. He also worked at the Orange County Register and FoxSports.com.
He quit the Press-Telegram and has been around USC with Rodney Guillory and O.J. Mayo the past two years. He frequently attended pickup games at the Galen Center, USC basketball games, the locker room and was with Mayo on his official campus visit in November, 2006.
No one I spoke to Sunday in media circles was aware that he received a suspended sentence and probation after being charged with selling cocaine.
Maybe after being convicted for selling cocaine (you don't receive a suspended sentence if you are NOT convicted of a crime), a person likely was asked to leave employment (probably fired) at the Press-Telegram ... he undoubtedly did not QUIT as you have reported? That is a crock.
I bleed Cardinal and Gold, but I also think Johnson knows way more than he is saying, and is protecting Mayo and USC while getting back at Guillory at the same time since Guillory elbowed him out of the Mayo inner circle and a likely easy paycheck ... to try to portray Mayo as the victim here, when he is getting free shoes and free clothes and free TVs and probably free everything else ... c'mon, do they all think we're that stupid?
This kind of crap has to stop. We don't want to stoop to the level of the Sam Gilbert Gang over in Westweird ... somebody needs to be held accountable over in Heritage Hall for this mess!
This looks a lot like sour grapes and maybe even a set-up. The question is: How soon can we expect a tell-all book from this talented “sportswriter?”
Guillory is no Sam Gilbert, so everyone should stop hyperventilating and wait for the story to play out. The frustrated bRuins are certainly going to fan the fire, especially since they couldn’t even win the Gauntlet, and the only National Championships they’ve been winning are in girls waterpolo.
BTW, I visited Costco on Saturday and they had 21” flat screens on sale for $299.
What is the deal with Sam Gilbert over here? That was what, 40 years ago #1, and #2 no wrong doing was ever done. Regardless of what you think about that...it has nothing to do with this!
I say again, what UCLA fans think is the least of your problems. Right now with guys like Dan Patrick ripping you up on the radio, and with ESPN publishing articles about how USC should be "crushed," your perception problems are far bigger than westwood.
Clearly, between Mayo and Bush, somebody is not doing their job.
ReelBruin2:
You haven’t answered what happened to the “original” ReelBruin. He’s so stupid he forgot his user name and password; that’s what happened!
P.S. Brick boy Farmar lost the game for the Lakers yesterday.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Wow loco. What does a username have to do with this subject? How about you start acting your age and stop worrying about a username. And as much as you'd like to believe that Farmar was the sole reason the Lakers lost, maybe a hurt Kobe contributed a little as well.
No wrong doing on Gilbert! Please check again about the sanction the Ruins received. The NCAA is not going to do squat about this, because they cleared him originally.
This is from FoxSports. Again, UCLA fans are not your problem
http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/s...st-of-the-worst
(5) Southern Cal athletic department: Speaking of a lack of institutional control, why doesn't the NCAA save itself a ton of money on airfare and just open a bureau in Los Angeles. Based on the allegations against football ace Reggie Bush and one-and-done hoopster O.J. Mayo involving gifts being lavished by agents and hangers-on, there would seem to be enough material to sift through to keep a four-man staff busy for . . . oh, I don't know, maybe five years. And somebody on the outside has to do the policing, because it doesn't look as though anybody at USC has taken an interest in the job. The first hint of that? How about the sign at the entrance of the USC athletic offices that reads, "We've been taking integrity and compliance seriously since 2009."