No Room For Bill Splashme - The Trojan Lapdog - On UCLA's Bandwagon

Column 1 of the front page of the Sports section is Bashke’s column on the game.

Columns 2 through 6, both above and 3 inches below the fold, are dominated by pictures of former $C receiver Sam Dickerson and his alleged “game-winning catch” in the 1969 game.

Let me get this straight — we become Bowl-eligible yesterday, $C has a bye, and the majority of the front page is taken up by $C colors on a player who “won” a game FORTY FREAKING YEARS AGO???

BUT WAIT!!! THERE’S MORE!!!

If that weren’t even ENOUGH, so-called UCLA beat writer Chris Foster starts his article on the game with this effing gem:

There are college football programs that have fired coaches for six-victory seasons. There are coaches who have a lot of explaining to do if merely achieving bowl eligibility is a season highlight. there players who view the "Fill-In-The-Sponsor-Bowl as a minor consolation prize.

Not around Westwood. Not at UCLA. Not this morning.

He also claims that Rahim Moore “stood on the podium and promised victory next week … over USC,” without providing a quote of the supposed promise. All he has is a suppsoed quote by Rahim, ’People remember November."

Funny, Ms. M and I were AT the game. Stayed to hear the post game announcements by CRN and the players. Granted, we couldn’t hear everything said by the players (we sit on the west side of the RB), but we REALLY don’t remember any guarantees or promises like that.

Ms. M, a lady who teaches journalism in high school and is a lifelong Bruin — even more rabid than me — is actually asking if we should just cancel our 10+ year subscription to the Times at this point.

I hereby move that we only refer to any stories/ quotes/ reports by the Times as “alleged,” because it is painfully clear that these guys do not value positive news about the Bruins of the past 24 hours to be anywhere nearly as important as Trojan trivia, whether it be from 24 hours or 40 years ago.

What a freaking joke.

M

but starting with this season he has started to annoy me more. He has tried to come back to the Bruins twice this year but the moment we lose, he goes right back to U$C.

I know he is not the best writer and he has written bad articles over the years. I’m just saying that this year it has become more apparent to me that he is very,VERY biased.

Someone over at the ‘wrap is probably doing searches and has come up with all this discussion of this idiot, which translates to some sort of positive. I think any discussion of the ’wrap should be phrased such that it can’t possibly come back to any sort of positive count. And links to the ’wrap site? That should call for a permanent ban. No links and no clicks.

And to you Bruins who are still so naive or uninformed as to think that the fishwrap is somehow necessary, I have only one request. Just cancel for a week. Cancel and get your news fix from some other source. I guarantee that if you cancel, someone from the ’wrap’s circulation department will call you to try to get you back on the rolls. If you find that you truly need a fix (and yes, I think putting the words from the ‘wrap into your mind is no different from putting heroin into your body), you can tell them that you cancelled because it’s too expensive, and they’ll come up with a way to lower the cost. And anything that reduces revenue to the ’wrap is good.

But I think you’ll find that life is better once you kick the filthy, degrading "wrap habit. For one thing, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you’re not paying the ‘wrap to keep spewing its anti-UCLA venom. Most Bruins are a little more liberal than I am, so let me propose this. Make a financial contribution to Fox News equal to what you spend on the ’wrap. Don’t like the concept? Well, remember that your financial contribution to the ’wrap is basically the same as a contribution to just$c*.