ANALYSIS: PALMER, KELLY COME OF AGE.Byline: Steve Irvine Staff Writer If timing truly is what allows a passing combination to click, then Carson Palmer Carson Palmer (born December 27, 1979 in Fresno, California), is an American football quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League. He attended the University of Southern California, where he won the Heisman Trophy Award in 2002 in his senior season. and Kareem Kelly Kareem Kelly (born April 1, 1981 in Los Angeles, California) is a Canadian Football League wide receiver. He attended the University of Southern California where he played football and track and majored in sociology. His sports hero is Muhammad Ali. showed Saturday they are a pretty darned darned adj. Damned. Adj. 1. darned - expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or good throw-and-catch duo. However, the timing we're concerned with has nothing to do with a quarterback's knack of knowing when to throw while a receiver is running his pattern. Or a receiver's aptitude for finding an open seam in the secondary when the quarterback is ready to throw. The timing we're concerned with has more to do with which Saturday the sophomore passing combo from USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. decided to turn potential into production. ``Today's game was a season in itself,'' said USC coach Paul Hackett of the annual visit with crosstown cross·town or cross-town adj. Running, extending, or going across a city or town: a crosstown street; crosstown traffic. adv. rival UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX . ``It was our bowl, our season.'' That's where the timing comes in. Palmer perhaps has never been better than he was before 80,227 at the Rose Bowl as USC scratched out a pulsating 38-35 victory. And Kelly regained the big-play form that he was supposed to bring to the Trojans all season. Weren't these the same two guys who caught the majority of the flack during Hackett's halftime tantrum tan·trum n. A fit of bad temper. tantrum, n a sudden outburst or violent display of rage, frustration, and bad temper, usually occurring in a maladjusted child or immature or disturbed adult. last week in the team's embarrassing loss to Washington State at the Coliseum Coliseum: see Colosseum. ? ``I played a bad game last week and I apologized to the team for that,'' Kelly said as he celebrated his second victory over the Bruins in as many tries. ``What I had to do was block that out and move forward.'' The move forward included six catches for 91 yards and a marvelous catch in the end zone over two UCLA defenders to complete a 39-yard scoring play with 1:37 left in the first half to create a 21-21 halftime tie. ``Big players make big plays in big games,'' Kelly said. Big plays were supposed to quickly follow when Palmer traded in his Santa Margarita Santa Margarita ("Saint Margaret") may refer to:
n. See clavicle. just two games later. He began the 2000 season sputtering A popular method for adhering thin films onto a substrate. Sputtering is done by bombarding a target material with a charged gas (typically argon) which releases atoms in the target that coats the nearby substrate. It all takes place inside a magnetron vacuum chamber under low pressure. , even though the Trojans beat Penn State, and aside from the next two games against Colorado and San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. State, he admittedly has not played well. And there was never a tougher time than last week when he was replaced at halftime by backup Mike Van Raaphorst with his team trailing the Cougars 12-0. ``This whole year kind of aged me a little bit,'' said Palmer, who turns 21 on Dec. 27. When the Washington State game ended, Hackett claimed he didn't know which quarterback would get the start against the Bruins. So that's how Palmer entered the week that begins the definition on any USC season. GAME-BY-GAME Year Result 1999 USC 17, UCLA 7 1998 UCLA 34, USC 17 1997 UCLA 31, USC 24 1996 UCLA 48, USC 41 (2OT) 1995 UCLA 24, USC 20 1994 UCLA 31, USC 19 1993 UCLA 27, USC 21 1992 UCLA 38, USC 37 1991 UCLA 24, USC 21 1990 USC 45, UCLA 42 1989 UCLA 10, USC 10 1988 USC 31, UCLA 22 1987 USC 17, UCLA 13 1986 UCLA 45, USC 25 1985 USC 17, UCLA 13 1984 UCLA 29, USC 10 1983 UCLA 27, USC 17 1982 UCLA 20, USC 19 1981 USC 22, UCLA 21 1980 UCLA 20, USC 17 1979 USC 49, UCLA 14 1978 USC 17, UCLA 10 1977 USC 29, UCLA 27 1976 USC 24, UCLA 14 1975 UCLA 25, USC 22 1974 USC 34, UCLA 9 1973 USC 23, UCLA 13 1972 USC 24, UCLA 7 1971 UCLA 7, USC 7 1970 UCLA 45, USC 20 1969 USC 14, UCLA 12 1968 USC 28, UCLA 16 1967 USC 21, UCLA 20 1966 UCLA 14, USC 7 1965 UCLA 20, USC 16 1964 USC 34, UCLA 13 1963 USC 26, UCLA 6 1962 USC 14, UCLA 3 1961 UCLA 10, USC 7 1960 USC 17, UCLA 6 1959 UCLA 10, USC 3 1958 UCLA 15, USC 15 1957 UCLA 20, USC 9 1956 USC 10, UCLA 7 1955 UCLA 17, USC 7 1954 UCLA 34, USC 0 1953 UCLA 13, USC 0 1952 USC 14, UCLA 12 1951 UCLA 21, USC 7 1950 UCLA 39, USC 0 1949 USC 21, UCLA 7 1948 USC 20, UCLA 13 1947 USC 6, UCLA 0 1946 UCLA 13, USC 6 1945 USC 26, UCLA 15 1945 USC 13, UCLA 6 1944 USC 40, UCLA 13 1944 UCLA 13, USC 13 1943 USC 26, UCLA 13 1943 USC 20, UCLA 0 1942 UCLA 14, USC 7 1941 UCLA 7, USC 7 1940 USC 28, UCLA 12 1939 UCLA 0, USC 0 1938 USC 42, UCLA 7 1937 USC 19, UCLA 13 1936 UCLA 7, USC 7 1930 USC 52, UCLA 0 1929 USC 76, UCLA 0 CAPTION(S): 3 photos, box Photo: (1) UCLA's Ricky Manning breaks up this pass intended for Kareem Kelly, but USC's Carson Palmer threw for 350 yards in Trojans' 38-35 win at Rose Bowl. Tom Mendoza/Staff Photographer (2) USC coach Paul Hackett said quarterback Carson Palmer ``came of age today.'' Gus Ruelas/Staff Photographer (3) Cory Paus celebrates after scoring to tie the game in the fourth quarter. Tom Mendoza/Staff Photographer Box: GAME BY GAME (see text) |
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