A `GAMEDAY' THAT L.A. CAN DO WITHOUT.Byline: SCOTT WOLF Scott Richard Wolf (born June 4, 1968) is an American actor. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Steven Wolf and Susan Enowitch, Wolf was raised in West Orange, New Jersey. He graduated in 1986 from West Orange High School. College Football It appears that if 10th-ranked California defeats Oregon State on Saturday, one of college football's worst traditions will descend on Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . No, we're not talking about the Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame band - it never lowers itself to actually make the trip west when the Irish play USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. , despite the millions NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. showers upon the athletic department. Rather, ESPN's ``College GameDay'' is threatening to set up shop on Oct. 9 outside the Coliseum to cover what could be a game between two top-10 teams, not to mention a sellout crowd, as USC hosts Cal. This would be a first for USC. In past years, ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network expressed interest, but begged off because of inconvenient West Coast kickoff times. Who would be at the Coliseum at 9 a.m. for a 3:30 p.m. game, they wondered? But with the Trojans and Golden Bears off to flying starts (at least until this weekend), the game is too hard to pass up, especially with a 12:30 p.m. kickoff. Usually, the traveling studio with its band of experts sets up shop in some civic backwater such as South Bend South Bend, city (1990 pop. 105,511), seat of St. Joseph co., N Ind., on the great south bend of the St. Joseph River, in a farming and mint-growing region; inc. as a city 1865. , Ind., or Lincoln, Neb., where you just turn on a camera and find thousands of overzealous fans - many fueled by alcohol - yelling and screaming, because they've been landlocked landlocked adj. referring to a parcel of real property which has no access or egress (entry or exit) to a public street and cannot be reached except by crossing another's property. outside the stadium since Friday night. It's almost as embarrassing as that wig actor Tom Sizemore wore in ``Hustle,'' the network's movie on baseball star Pete Rose Anyway, these college-football worshippers don't really care about what's being said on ``GameDay.'' They just want their face on TV. And ESPN is only too happy to oblige. My fear is that USC and Cal fans or whoever else is walking through Exposition Park next Saturday will suffer the same syndrome next week, even though tailgating Tailgating The action of a broker or advisor purchasing or selling a security for his or her client(s) and then immediately making the same transaction in his or her own account. at the Coliseum is usually a mild-mannered experience. There could be a side benefit to the obnoxious behavior encouraged by ESPN. At least if the fans yell loud enough, no one will be able to hear ``experts'' Lee Corso or Kirk Herbstreit. Then again, maybe I'm overreacting. The show only really gets annoying when you see lips moving. I'm just sorry they won't be bringing color analyst Mike Gottfried with them. He reportedly said the USC-Brigham Young game was being played in New Mexico until correcting himself and realizing he was actually in Utah. He's sounding stiffer than the Heisman Trophy. But hey, that's another conversation. --Quick hits: Don't kick to Miami sophomore Devin Hester. He is averaging 47.5 yards per punt return with two touchdowns on four returns this season. --The last time West Virginia started 5-0 was 1996, when the Mountaineers were 7-0. West Virginia has won 11 consecutive regular-season games, dating back to last season. --Syracuse running back Walter Reyes needs 21 yards to pass Larry Csonka on the school's all-time rushing list. Reyes has 2,913 career rushing yards. --The last time Washington started 0-4 was 1969, when the Huskies went 0-9 before defeating 1-8 Washington State. --According to NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association figures, Notre Dame has the toughest schedule in the country the rest of the season. Notre Dame's remaining opponents have an aggregate record of 19-3. --Trash talk: Before last week's Oregon State-Arizona State game, Beavers cornerback Brandon Browner, of Sylmar, who intercepted Arizona State quarterback Andrew Walter three times last year, said he thought the Beavers could again ``kick their butts.'' After Arizona State won 27-14, Walter said, ``If they played as good as they talked, they'd be 4-0.'' --Religious observance: Wisconsin was so injury-depleted at running back that 270-pound fullback Matt Bernstein moved to tailback in the second half of its 16-3 victory over Penn State. Bernstein gained 123 yards in 27 carries, even though he spent the first part of the day fasting in observance of Yom Kippur. ``I'm happy the game was late enough,'' Bernstein told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. It is the primary newspaper in Milwaukee, the largest newspaper in Wisconsin and is distributed widely throughout the state. . ``It's a pretty serious decision and I waited until the last minute and I started to fast (Friday) at about 5 o'clock.'' Bernstein said he probably wouldn't have played had the game started earlier. But with a 4:45 p.m. kickoff, he had enough time, although he missed warm-ups. CAPTION(S): box Box: Daily News/CBS 2/KCAL 9/SPORTS CENTRAL POWER RANKINGS - Scott Wolf |
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