MATTHEW KREDELL

Matthew Kredell broke into the Daily News in 1998, working part time at the paper while going to USC. The basketball team’s Elite Eight run in 2000-01 was USC’s athletic highlight in his time at the school, when the football team was stuck in the Paul Hackett-era. After graduating in 2001, he started writing for the Daily News full time. He’s in his second year covering USC, which coincides with the rise of the program. He’ll take credit for the success, though Tim Floyd may have more to do with it. A third-generation Los Angelean, he grew up reading the Daily News while at El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills.
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Background info on Stewart

Traveling back to Mississippi for the first time in six years brought back old memories of what it was like growing up on the 10-mile plantation where most of his family lives.

``It’s not like here where blacks and whites live next to each other and are friends,’’ Lodrick Stewart said. ``It’s different in the south. There’s still slave houses out there.’’

His ancestors were brought from Nigeria as slaves. The slave owner left the plantation to the Stewarts when he died.

The trip home made the senior guard more determined than ever to have a future in basketball. He hopes to move his family out to the West Coast some day.

``I don't care about driving big cars or none of that,'' Stewart said. ``All my money is going to help them get out of there. It's about family first, that's how I was brought up. I just want to make it, it don't matter if it's the NBA or overseas, so that I can help them.''

Lodrick and his twin brother Rodrick moved to Seattle for high school with their father Andrew ``Bull’’ Stewart. Rodrick and Lodrick came to USC together, but Rodrick left after his freshman season and transferred to Kansas.

``I have nobody to turn to here, no family,'' Stewart said. ``I hang out with teammates, and they're like my family. But it's still hard because it's not like blood family.''

Stewart will see more blood relations at upcoming games. Beginning tomorrow at Arizona, his father plans to attend the remaining USC games. Bull Stewart, who runs a gym in Seattle, had been to a handful of games this season. Lodrick always seems motivated by his presence.

``I just play better when he’s out there,’’ Stewart said. ``I look up in the stands and see him and know it’s time to pick it up.’’

Posted by Matthew Kredell on February 14, 2007 8:49 PM |

Comments

``I don't care about driving big cars or none of that,'' Stewart said.

LMAO, Lodrick has a huge red hummer that he loves to drive around campus, especially the row. It even got stolen once.

And he's never going to make it in anywhere in professional basketball unless he learns to go right, dribbling and layups, like the freshman Daniel Hackett knows how to do.

But I do admit, Lodrick has played very hard this year on both ends of the floor.

Posted by: TommyBoy54 | February 14, 2007 11:52 PM

Matthew, this is real reporting via a blog. You are off to a great start. Congrats and keep up the good work. It's refreshing to see your substance and effort when compared to the tabloid/gossip column crutch on which your football blogging counterpart relies.

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