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CROSSTOWN RIVALRY 2024: Beginning Our Coverage With Something A Little Different

UCLA’s water polo team cooking up some strategy during a time-out. Photo courtesy of dailybruin.com Once again, IT’S CROSSTOWN RIVALRY WEEK! WITH SO CAL SPORTS CHRONICLES OFFERING COVERAGE OF SUCH, THE 94th MEETING BETWEEN UCLA & USC IN FOOTBALL COMING THIS SATURDAY NIGHT! THIS IS THE TENTH YEAR OF WHAT I CONSIDER THE BIGGEST WEEK ON THIS BLOG AS FIVE POSTS WILL APPEAR BETWEEN NOW AND NEXT…

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A BRUIN SILVER LINING: UCLA Beats USC In The Annual Crosstown Cup

UCLA’s Kiki Rice driving past USC’s Malia Samuels during one of their Crosstown Clashes. Photo courtesy of UCLAathletics.com BRUINS BEAT TROJANS FOR THE SECOND TIME IN THREE YEARS IN THE ANNUAL ALL-SPORTS COMPETITION All right, let’s not sugarcoat it… No one in Bruin Nation would deny that this past weekend was a bad one for the teams that play on a diamond with a bat and a ball; Especially…

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SO CAL SPORTS: My Team Of The Year For 2025

A picture that every sports team wants to take at the end of the season, which the Dodgers got to do for the second straight year! Photo courtesy of mlb.com THIS CHOICE OF MINE FOR THE BEST SPORTS TEAM THAT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HAD TO OFFER IN 2025 WAS A MOST PAINFULLY OBVIOUS ONE ON A PRONOUNCED LEVEL, WHICH ONLY SOMEONE WHO IS CLUELESS WOULD DISAGREE WITH: Being that they won their second…

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REVELATIONS: My Future Plans For This Sports Blog

Dodgers right after winning their second straight World Series title. Photo courtesy of featured.japan-forward.com THIS COMING JANUARY WILL MARK ELEVEN YEARS SINCE I STARTED THIS SPORTS BLOG. Which – to coin what I know is a tired cliche – is quite a while. It has been a good experience as for all intents and purposes, So Cal Sports Chronicles (along with my personal blog, Hartland…

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CROSSTOWN RIVALRY 2025: The Rose Bowl & Me - Personal Memories of That Landmark

A place I have been to well over 150 times at the least… MUCH LIKE LAST YEAR, THIS YEAR’S CROSSTOWN RIVALRY COVERAGE BEGINS WITH SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT. DON’T WORRY – I’VE INCLUDED SOME USC MEMORIES HERE… For thirty-eight years, I have attended football games featuring my alma mater, UCLA, at a stadium which is considered by more or less everyone to be one of the most iconic places to…

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CROSSTOWN CUP: USC Beats UCLA In The Annual All Sports Rivalry Competition

Photo courtesy of usctrojans.com TROJANS WIN THE ANNUAL CROSSTOWN CUP OVER THEIR CROSSTOWN RIVALS FOR THE 14TH TIME Looking back, When the Trojans pulled off that trick play at the Rose Bowl and completed that comeback win over UCLA to win that Crosstown Rivalry Cash and take back the Victory Bell to paint it cardinal, Somehow – though there were many other sporting events to be played…

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CROSSTOWN RIVALRY 2024: My Official Predictions of This Year's UCLA Bruins vs USC Trojans Clash

Photo courtesy of uclabruins.com UCLA BRUINS (4-6) vs USC TROJANS (5-5) DAY & DATE: Saturday, November 23, 2024 PLACE: The Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA TIME: 7:30 p.m. TV: NBC Channel 4 RANK: None by either team AT STAKE BESIDES BRAGGING RIGHTS AND THE VICTORY BELL: Bowl eligibility for USC A chance at bowl eligibility remaining for UCLA ALL-TIME SERIES: USC leads 50-34-7 FIRST GAME: 1929,…

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CROSSTOWN RIVALRY 2024: Our Preview of the 94th Meeting Between UCLA and USC

I’ve always liked photos of UCLA and USC lining up on the line of scrimmage! Photo courtesy of dailynews.com UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES (UCLA) BRUINS vs UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (USC) TROJANS ** THE 94th MEETING ** SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd, 2024 ROSE BOWL, PASADENA, CA TIME: 7:30 p.m. TV: NBC Channel 4 ALL-TIME SERIES: USC leads 50-34-7 LAST YEAR: UCLA won, 38-20, at…

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