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First and foremost, I
wish Dan Guerrero a speedy
and full recovery.
He was a great fundrais-
er and gets a pass on the
Chip Kelly debacle because
every Bruins fan cheered
that decision. However, the
most important job of any
UCLA A.D. is to protect and
maintain the legacy and
excellence of our basketball
program and in that he
failed miserably. For that
reason alone, personal
issues aside, he needed to be
replaced.
Allan Kandel
Los Angeles
::“The definition of insan-
ity is doing the same thing
over and over again and
expecting different results.”
— Albert Einstein
“I think it’s a consistency
thing.” — Chip Kelly
Stan Alexander
Arcadia
::So Chip Kelly said he is
still learning the personnel
and trying to figure out how
best to use his players.
Maybe he will get it before
his current group graduates
and we begin the next win-
dow with the same excuse.
Bob Goldstone
Corona del Mar
::The only thing worse
than the Bruins’ 0-3 start is
coach Kelly’s historically
dismal high school recruit-
ing, a process seemingly too
demeaning for such an
acclaimed offensive wizard.
The last recruiting cycle was
so pathetic that Kelly was in
a knockdown-dragout with
College of the Mines for a
player with “intangibles.”
Seriously!
In Kelly’s first year, he
managed to chase away
30-plus scholarship players
from the Jim Mora era. Toss
in two lousy recruiting
classes and the former
genius says he doesn’t have
the athletes to run his once-
potent Oregon blur. He
does, however, have almost
four years left on a huge
contract, a huge buyout and
a rapidly withering fan base.
There is only one solu-
tion. Kelly should quit. Go
focus on family or use health
problems as an excuse. He
should take his nonblur
offense, sullied reputation
and bloated ego back to
New Hampshire and save
the Bruins’ football pro-
gram.
Jeff Green
Long Beach
::By any chance were
Dorian Thompson-Rob-
inson’s quarterback skills
recommended to UCLA by
college admissions consult-
ant “Rick” Singer?
Wes Wellman
Santa Monica
Error raid
So Graham Harrell likes
the plays he called in over-
time against BYU that led to
the game-ending intercep-
tion. That just about says it
all about the leadership of
the Trojans’ football team.
Brad Orrico
Granada Hills
::After losing to a medio-
cre BYU team, Clay Helton
stated, “This is a nonconfer-
ence game early in the sea-
son.” Apparently Helton is
fine with just competing for
a championship of the weak-
est Power Five conference in
the country and not to be a
factor in the playoff system.
USC will continue to be a
national afterthought until
USC removes Helton and
brings in someone with a
national pedigree. That
person is Urban Meyer. Pay
him whatever it will take to
bring him out of retirement
and then USC football will
be on its way to competing
for a national championship
every year.
Bruce Olson
Upland::A message to Trojans
Nation:
With a new athletic direc-
tor coming in the near fu-
ture for USC, don’t get your
hopes up for hiring Urban
Meyer. Why? USC has tradi-
tionally paid its football
coaches on the cheap. With
Clemson’s Dabo Swinney
making over $9 million per
year, and Nick Saban earn-
ing over $8 million a year at
Alabama, does one think
that the Trojans faithful will
pony up the big bucks it
would take to bring in some-
one like Urban Meyer? Not
in my lifetime.
Chris Sorce
Fountain Valley::What is Dylan Hernan-
dez’s problem? Did Clay
Helton steal his cafeteria
money? Who criticizes a
coach for saying his players
work their tails off? Who
doesn’t credit the coach
when his team kicks Stan-
ford’s tail — and without the
starting quarterback?
Worse than than, Her-
nandez is apparently un-
aware that USC is a uni-
versity instead of an NFL
team (even if it looked like
one under Pete Carroll).
Scott D. White
Claremont::I must take exception on
two points to Russ Ewald’s
well-researched letter last
week lauding Jess Hill as an
example of a former Trojan
athlete being a great ath-
letic director.
Point One: A single case
of success does not make up
for many cases of failure,
plus Hill himself was part of
a department responsible
for the “five-game seniors”
for the 1957 USC football
team.
Point Two: 1959 is not
2 019.
Ralph Martinez
Arcadia::In USC’s first three
games, the television net-
works have missed much of
the first quarter. As a pas-
sionate and longtime Tro-
jan fan, I’d just like to ask if
they can extend it to the
fourth quarter?
Jack Saltzberg
Valley VillageBoo who?
Kenley Jansen is listed as
a pitcher on the Dodgers’
roster. Not a closer. Pitcher.
It’s time for Dave Roberts
and the Dodgers’ brain
trust to put the team first
and start using him as apitcher, not a closer. If they
continue to stick with this
current plan, Dodgers fans
will end up in the same pool
of tears as the last two years.
Vincent Martinez
South Pasadena::How classless for Dod-
gers fans to boo Kenley
Jansen. Do they think that
he is not trying? After sev-
eral stellar years of relief
pitching, and despite a good
early September, he may
have lost effectiveness. It
happens to every great
closer (other than Mariano
Rivera).
I, for one, applaud him
for putting what is left of his
balky heart into each ap-
pearance (or have fans
forgotten that he has come
back twice from heart prob-
lems?).
Andrew E. Rubin
Los Angeles::Kenley Jansen’s strug-
gles are the most visible,
but the Dodgers’ bullpen
problems go well past him.
As a group, the pen allows a
whopping 39% of inherited
runners to score, the second
highest mark in all of base-
ball. With a pen this unreli-
able, maybe it’s time for
Andrew Friedman and Dave
Roberts to rethink their
analytics-driven strategies
of prematurely lifting start-
ing pitchers because of
pitch count, third time
through the lineup, or some
other metric. With the play-
offs around the corner, we
can’t afford a repeat of
Game 4 of last year’s World
Series when the Dodgers
pulled Rich Hill throwing a
one-hit shutout and a 4-0
lead, only to have the
bullpen give the game
away.
Bob Antonoplis
La Cañada::The Dodgers have a
pretty good team and that’s
the problem. Pretty good
won’t be good enough to win
the World Series. Hope I amwrong but I don’t think so.
Jay James
Pico Rivera::If the Dodgers’ front
office had caved to pressure
from some fans and sports
columnists, we would have
traded Gavin Lux for Felipe
Vazquez and today’s letters
would be filled with com-
ments bemoaning one of the
worst trades in history.
Mike Eberts
Los FelizIt’s a triple!
As the season comes to a
merciful end for the Angels,
one thing has become clear.
The name “The Los Angeles
Angels of Anaheim” has the
letter “A” in its name three
times for a reason.
Russell Beecher
Canyon LakeSoFi, so good
It’s official, the Rams and
Chargers will play at SoFi
Stadium. So is SoFi a a new
fast-food chain, a payday
lender, a discount mattress
store or a cure for hemor-
rhoids? Can’t wait for open-
ing day so we can all SoFi
together. I hope it won’t
hurt.
Mel Frohman
Los AngelesNeigh sayer
I didn’t think it was
possible, but Santa Anita
makes Michael Vick look
like an animal lover.
Barry Smith
Thousand Oaks::The Los Angeles Times
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Major League Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Favorite Underdog
at Chicago -127 St. Louis +117
New York -118 at Cincinnati +108
Washington -245 at Miami +225
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at Atlanta OFF San Francisco OFF
Arizona -126 at San Diego +116
at DODGERS -320 Colorado +290
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Favorite Underdog
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Chicago -120 at Detroit +110
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at Baltimore OFF Seattle OFF
at Minnesota -310 Kansas City +280
at Houston OFF ANGELS OFF
at Oakland -270 Texas +240
INTERLEAGUE
Favorite Underdog
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Favorite Line (O/U) Underdog
at Iowa St. 18 (54) Louisiana-Monroe
at Ohio State 381 ⁄ 2 (56) Miami (Ohio)
at Clemson 411 ⁄ 2 (61) Charlotte
at Indiana 271 ⁄ 2 (56^1 ⁄ 2 ) Connecticut
Central Florida 11 (61^1 ⁄ 2 ) at Pittsburgh
at Ohio 3 (67^1 ⁄ 2 ) Louisiana-Lafayette
Nebraska 131 ⁄ 2 (62) at Illinois
Temple 151 ⁄ 2 (50^1 ⁄ 2 ) at Buffalo
at Miami 291 ⁄ 2 (47^1 ⁄ 2 ) Cent. Michigan
at Virginia 28 (46^1 ⁄ 2 ) Old Dominion
Coastal Carolina 17 (61) at Massachusetts
Michigan St. 9 (37) at Northwestern
Tr oy 1 7^1 ⁄ 2 (56) at Akron
Boston College 81 ⁄ 2 (57^1 ⁄ 2 ) at Rutgers
at Syracuse 41 ⁄ 2 (65^1 ⁄ 2 ) W. Michigan
at N.C. State 191 ⁄ 2 (58^1 ⁄ 2 ) Ball St
at Wisconsin 3 (44^1 ⁄ 2 ) Michigan
Toledo 9 (66) at Colorado St.
at New Mexico 41 ⁄ 2 (71) New Mexico St.Washington 61 ⁄ 2 (50^1 ⁄ 2 ) at Brigham Young
at Arizona St. 81 ⁄ 2 (48^1 ⁄ 2 ) Colorado
at Mississippi 21 ⁄ 2 (41^1 ⁄ 2 ) California
at Florida 14 (48^1 ⁄ 2 ) Tennessee
at Texas State 3 (63^1 ⁄ 2 ) Georgia St
at Alabama 38 (61^1 ⁄ 2 ) Southern Miss
at Mississippi St 6 (48) Kentucky
LSU 241 ⁄ 2 (62^1 ⁄ 2 ) at Vanderbilt
at North Carolina 21 ⁄ 2 (58) Appalachian St.
at Texas A&M 4 (47^1 ⁄ 2 ) Auburn
at Tulsa 31 ⁄ 2 (46) Wyoming
at Missouri 81 ⁄ 2 (60^1 ⁄ 2 ) South Carolina
West Virginia 41 ⁄ 2 (48^1 ⁄ 2 ) at Kansas
at Texas 61 ⁄ 2 (72^1 ⁄ 2 ) Oklahoma St.
at Kent St. 111 ⁄ 2 (62^1 ⁄ 2 ) Bowling Green
at Texas Christian 8 (55) SMU
at Arkansas 21 (61^1 ⁄ 2 ) San Jose St
at Ala. Birmingham 10^1 ⁄ 2 (48^1 ⁄ 2 ) South Alabama
Oregon 101 ⁄ 2 (57^1 ⁄ 2 ) at Stanford
Baylor 26 (58^1 ⁄ 2 ) at Rice
at North Texas 181 ⁄ 2 (58) Texas San Antonio
at Georgia 141 ⁄ 2 (58) Notre Dame
at Florida St. 61 ⁄ 2 (61^1 ⁄ 2 ) Louisville
Nevada 14 (51^1 ⁄ 2 ) at Texas El Paso
at Washington St. 181 ⁄ 2 (57^1 ⁄ 2 ) UCLA
Utah St. 31 ⁄ 2 (54) at San Diego St.NFL
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Favorite Line (O/U) Underdog
at Green Bay 7 (43) Denver
at Philadelphia 6 (45^1 ⁄ 2 ) Detroit
at Kansas City 51 ⁄ 2 (52) Baltimore
at Buffalo 6 (44) Cincinnati
at Indianapolis 1 (47) Atlanta
at Minnesota 9 (43^1 ⁄ 2 ) Oakland
at New England 21 (43) N.Y. Jets
at Dallas 22 (47) Miami
at Tampa Bay 6 (47^1 ⁄ 2 ) N.Y. Giants
at Arizona 2 (44^1 ⁄ 2 ) Carolina
at Seattle 41 ⁄ 2 (45) New Orleans
at CHARGERS 3 (48^1 ⁄ 2 ) Houston
at San Francisco 61 ⁄ 2 (43^1 ⁄ 2 ) Pittsburgh
RAMS 3 (47) at Cleveland
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Chicago 31 ⁄ 2 (41) at WashingtonODDS