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[unable to retrieve full-text content]USC Cancels Valedictorian’s Commencement Address Amid Accusations of Antisemitism  Yahoo Entertainment Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]USC Cancels Valedictorian’s Commencement Address Amid Accusations of Antisemitism  Yahoo! Voices Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]USC athletic director Mike Bohn abruptly resigns  Yahoo Sports Source link

COMPUTER SCIENCE ALUMNI JASON LIN. PHOTO/COURTESY OF JASON LIN. Canadian-born Jason Lin was raised in Hong Kong but grew up all over the world. His love for sciences, math and business has led to a successful career working with  Google DeepMind, advising the United Nations (UN) and launching his own AI startup (FABER). Jason gave us an update on life after graduation. Answers have been edited for style and clarity.  After graduating from USC which opportunities were most exciting? 

We’re through three weeks of the college football season and we’re beginning to learn a bit about these teams. This week features a lot more conference play. Within the next few weeks, things will crystalize about some things we still have questions about. One way to see which teams have been impressive or unimpressive is to take a look at how they’re performing against the spread. By definition, teams that cover spreads are surpassing expectations while teams that are failing to cover… Source link

Just about everyone in college football spent their Fourth of July weekend talking, texting and sitting through meetings about what will happen next in conference realignment and what, if anything, each school and league can do to either protect or maximize itself going forward. The move revealed Thursday that USC and UCLA will join the Big Ten and thus decimate the Pac-12 has led to panic and confusion. What six months ago was a Power Five with a lucrative, fair playoff plan on the table is… Source link

Is more realignment coming in college athletics? USC and UCLA are planning to leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten, Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News is reporting. According to Wilner, arguably the most plugged-in reporter on the Pac-12, the move could come to fruition as early as 2024 but “has not been finalized at the highest levels of power.” Minutes after the news from Wilner dropped, several other outlets reported that USC and UCLA are in negotiations to join the Big Ten. Big Ten… Source link

While we wait for the NFL to tell us the full extent of the mistreatment of Washington Football Team’s cheerleaders (any day now, NFL), or for anyone to face consequences for the department-wide, toxic environment fostered by LSU athletics, we bring you a new story of young women being let down by the very adults meant to be looking out for their well-being. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Times posted an investigation by Ryan Kartje into the rotten culture of the University of Southern… Source link

A small private Catholic school in eastern Washington that didn’t win a single game over the first six decades of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament‘s existence knocked off USC on Tuesday to reach the Final Four. And the most remarkable part of this remarkable story is that Gonzaga’s supremacy was wholly unsurprising. The new premier program in men’s college basketball steamrolled the sixth-seeded Trojans in the Elite Eight, 85-66. Drew Timme, the Zags’ fourth-best NBA prospect, outplayed and… Source link

USC entered the NCAA tournament boasting the Pac-12’s most efficient defense. When it brought an offense to match, Kansas didn’t stand a chance. No. 6 seed USC smothered No. 3 seed Kansas on both sides of the floor Monday, handing the Jayhawks their worst-ever NCAA tournament loss, 85-51. Their previous worst effort was a 60-42 loss to Indiana in the 1940 national title game.  Pac-12 keeps rolling The win caps a dominant weekend for the Pac-12, which sends four of its five entrants in the… Source link