USC FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK: BUSH HAS LATE-NIGHT TV POTENTIAL.Byline: Scott Wolf Staff Writer USC tailback Reggie Bush won two awards Thursday, but a bigger honor looms for him next week if he wins the Heisman Trophy. Bush will appear on the ``Late Show with David Letterman'' on Monday night and read the top 10 list if he wins college football's top honor in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . ``That will be cool,'' Bush said. ``I like Conan (O'Brien), too. I think he's funny. I'd like to go on that.'' In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , Bush picked up the Doak Walker Award Named after the SMU and Detroit Lions football player Doak Walker, the Doak Walker Award, first awarded in 1990, honors the nation's top college football running back. This award is unique among college football awards in that it requires all candidates to be: Bush also won Walter Camp Football Player of the Year Award Several sports leagues honor their best player with an award called Player of the Year. In the United States, this type of award is usually called a Most Valuable Player award. The awards with the "player of the year" phrasing include these. . USC quarterback Matt Leinart won it last year. O.J. Simpson (1967 and 1968), (Charles White, 1979) and Marcus Allen (1981) also won the award. Leinart came up empty-handed Thursday, as Texas quarterback Vince Young won the Maxwell Award, which goes to the nation's top player. Young also won the Davey O'Brien Award The Davey O'Brien Award, officially the Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award, is presented annually to the collegiate American football player adjudged by the Davey O'Brien Foundation to be the best of all National Collegiate Athletic Association quarterbacks. , which goes to the top quarterback. Neither receiver Dwayne Jarrett nor offensive guard Taitusi Lutui went to the awards show in Orlando, Fla., because of academic obligations during finals week at USC. Bush, Leinart and Jarrett were also named Walter Camp All-Americans and Bush was named offensive player of the year by the Pigskin Club in Washington, D.C. USC coach Pete Carroll was named a finalist for the Football Writers Assn. of America Coach of the Year Award. --Field work: The turf was replaced on one of USC's practice fields Thursday, just two days before the Trojans' first bowl practice. It's a potential issue because the last time USC replaced its turf, the weekend of the Notre Dame game, USC couldn't practice on Howard Jones Field Howard Jones Field is the practice facility for the USC Trojans football team. It was expanded in the fall of 1998 to include Brian Kennedy Field. In early 1999, Goux's Gate — named after the late popular long-time former assistant coach Marv Goux — was erected at the for nearly a week because of problems installing the new turf. Scott Wolf, (818) 713-3607 scott.wolf(at)dailynews.com |
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