L.A. CONFIDENTIAL.

Byline: -- Kevin Modesti

At last week's USC-Cal football game, after I parked in a private lot a half-hour's walk from the Coliseum for the tidy sum of $30, I told people it's a good thing I didn't end up an hour away -- I didn't have $60 in my pocket.

This'll teach me to make jokes.

Without a media parking pass for Saturday's USC-Notre Dame epic, and assuming the campus structures would fill up as early as they did for Cal, I went back to the same private lot on the grounds of a religious school at Hoover and 32nd about four hours before kickoff.

``Thirty dollars?'' I said to the woman at the gate. ``Fifty,'' she said, pointing to a hand-lettered sign.

Fifty. 50. 5-0h.

I asked the man and woman in charge, `What's the difference between Cal-game parking and Notre Dame-game parking?'

``It's supply and demand,'' the man said.