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.
Mayo articles
This story from Yahoo by Adrian Wojnarowski brings up an interesting point on how the techonology-age of hand-held cameras, video phones, the Internet, message boards and youtube affected the Mayo incident. In the past, Mayo would have been made out a thug just for his connection to bumping a referee after an ejection. That reputation probably would have followed him into USC. Because videos can be put on the Internet and circle the country so quickly, people were able to see Mayo get a second technical and ejection without saying a word, then watch the ref dubiously fly to the ground after small, incidental contact. People made up their own minds about the incident. Sometimes too much technology can be a bad thing, but this case showed its benefits.
Mayo speaks out about the incident in his local paper.
After his two-game suspension was put on hold by a court injunction, Mayo scored 19 points with six rebounds and four assists Tuesday in a 73-66 victory over Artesia of Lakewood. Malik Story, who has given USC an oral commitment for 2008, had 21 points in a losing effort.
Comments
I kept telling people that until I saw video of what happened I was not going to rush to judgment.
Posted by: SChoopfan | February 2, 2007 11:01 PM