The Sports Report: A Look At Usc’s New Football Training Center

From Ryan Kartje: The first conception for USC’s Bloom Football Performance Center was first calved connected nan backmost of a napkin. It was precocious November 2021, and Lincoln Riley was connected a level to Los Angeles, wherever he was slated to beryllium introduced arsenic USC’s coach.

The then-hypothetical installation had been a captious contingency for Riley, who ne'er toured USC’s facilities, but knew — for illustration astir group astir assemblage shot — that nan Trojans were earnestly lacking successful that department. For years, USC officials had resisted doing thing astir it. The John McKay Center hadn’t moreover been astir a decade, they’d inevitably say. Plus, location was nan not-so-insignificant problem of wherever to build a caller installation connected campus.

Riley knew that. And he asked anyway.

“That was a small bit, successful that moment, my measurement to trial really committed SC was,” Riley said Thursday. “This honestly was astir apt nan biggest trial of committedness for, ‘How invested are we to get this programme back?’ When that was met pinch nary hesitations, that was a pivotal portion of maine taking this job. I deliberation it’s adjacent to say, if that committedness hadn’t been made, I astir apt wouldn’t beryllium here.”

Almost 5 years later, nan plans Riley sketched retired that greeting person been brought to life successful 1 of assemblage football’s finest facilities, nan towering jewel of a $225-million superior task astatine USC that besides includes a caller shot stadium (Dedeaux Field) and a women’s shot and lacrosse section (Rawlinson Stadium).

Bronze plaques of erstwhile USC players adorn nan wall of nan Mark and Mary Stevens Trojan Legacy Wall astatine nan USC Bloom Football Performance Center.

(Allen Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

The three-story, 163,000-square-foot football-only installation opened Wednesday night, pinch Riley reflecting backmost connected that napkin and marveling astatine really acold nan programme had travel since. But this gleaming building and its array of amenities had acold exceeded his first expectations, he said.

He called it “magical.”

“You tin opportunity aliases committedness that you’re gonna build a facility, and past you tin halfway do it aliases you tin do it correct and conscionable spell complete nan apical and conscionable really not clasp backmost successful immoderate way, and that’s what our assemblage has done,” Riley said. “I’m proud and thankful for nan assemblage for making this happen.”

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UCLA opens training camp

From Connor Dullinger: You compete. Or you complain.

UCLA caput coach Bob Chesney coined it astatine nan opening of preseason campy past twelvemonth successful Harrisonburg, Va., earlier starring James Madison to a 12-2 record, a Sun Belt title and its first College Football Playoff appearance.

“You either compete aliases complain, you can’t do both,” Chesney said connected Aug. 5, 2025. “You are either afloat of pridefulness and won’t let yourself to person mental, beingness and affectional deficiency of subject and toughness, aliases you capable yourselves pinch pity and you person a deficiency of each 3 of those things.”

Chesney carried that aforesaid tune connected his first time of autumn campy successful Westwood, starring his caller team.

The Bruin religious sewage its first sensation of their recently minted caput honcho astatine his introductory news convention connected Dec. 9, wherever he made promises of turning astir nan shot program, elevating it to its tallness of nan past, and reengaging nan Bruin community.

And Chesney has not wavered since.

And that consistency includes nan measurement he is training his players starring up to UCLA’s opener against California, wherever nan erstwhile Pac-12 rivals will meet for a nighttime crippled betwixt 2 first-year caput coaches.

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Sean McVay not judge what Aaron Donald will do

From Gary Klein: Rams coach Sean McVay said Thursday that he and Aaron Donald “probably talk each day.”

But it’s apparently still hold and spot arsenic to whether nan prima protect lineman will return from a two-year status and rejoin a Rams squad that is favored to triumph nan Super Bowl.

McVay said Donald, a three-time NFL protect subordinate of nan year, “looked great” during a workout connected Tuesday astatine Loyola Marymount pinch protect statement coach Giff Smith and squad trainers, and that Donald was continuing to spell done his decision-making process.

“Things are going successful nan correct direction,” McVay said. “He’s emotion bully but we’re not to wherever we’re capable to opportunity whether aliases not he is aliases isn’t fresh to do it.”

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Zach Neto leads Angels complete Orioles

Zach Neto deed a three-run location tally to assistance nan Angels complete nan Baltimore Orioles 4-1 successful nan last crippled of nan bid connected Thursday afternoon.

Wade Meckler singled connected a crushed shot successful nan 3rd inning that was overthrown by Orioles starting pitcher Brandon Young astatine first, advancing him to second. Nolan Schanuel was past walked to group up Neto’s 411-foot homer that went complete nan center-field wall.

Schanuel deed a sacrifice alert successful nan seventh for Meckler to people nan 4th tally of nan game.

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Angels container score

MLB standings

Sparks upset nan Lynx

Rae Burrell scored 17 points, and Erica Wheeler had 4 successful a game-ending 8-0 tally and nan Sparks ended Minnesota’s 10-game winning streak, beating nan WNBA-leading Lynx 89-82 connected Thursday night.

Kayla McBride deed a three-pointer to springiness Minnesota (25-7) an 82-81 lead, but nan Lynx missed their last 7 shots and went scoreless complete nan last 4:53.

Nneka Ogwumike had a go-ahead layup, Wheeler deed a pull-up 10-footer, and Monique Akoa Makani and Wheeler had nan last 2 baskets successful nan precocious tally for nan Sparks (12-18). The Sparks hit nan Lynx for nan first clip successful 3 tries this season.

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Nneka Ogwumike says she isn’t giving up connected Sparks’ play contempt adversity

Sparks container score

WNBA standings

This time successful sports history

1952 — Bion Shively, 74, drives Sharp Note to triumph successful nan 3rd power of nan Hambletonian Stakes.

1982 — Speed Bowl wins nan Hambletonian Stakes successful consecutive heats pinch 25-year-old Tom Haughton successful nan sulky, nan youngest to triumph nan Hambletonian.

1992 — Sergei Bubka, nan world record-holder and defending Olympic champion, fails to clear a tallness successful nan rod vault.

2005 — Justin Gatlin dominates nan 100 meters astatine nan way and section championships successful Helsinki. The Olympic champion wins successful 9.88 seconds, finishing 0.17 seconds up of Michael Frater of Jamaica. The separator of triumph is nan largest successful nan 10 world championships held since nan meet’s inception successful 1983.

2012 — Aly Raisman becomes nan first U.S. female to triumph Olympic golden connected floor. She picks up a bronze connected equilibrium beam connected nan last time of gymnastics astatine nan London Olympics and conscionable misses a badge successful nan all-around.

2016 — Jim Furyk becomes nan first golfer to sprout a 58 successful PGA Tour history. Three years aft Furyk became nan sixth subordinate connected circuit pinch a 59, he takes it moreover little successful nan Travelers Championship pinch a 12-under 58 successful nan last round.

2016 — American swimmer Katie Ledecky sets a caller world grounds pinch a clip of 3:56.46 to triumph nan golden badge successful nan women’s 400m freestyle astatine nan Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

2021 — Kevin Durant pinch 29 points leads USA to his 3rd and nan team’s 4th consecutive Olympic men’s hoops golden badge pinch an 87-82 triumph complete France successful Tokyo.

2021 — Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra wins his country’s first-ever Olympic golden badge successful Tokyo.

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This time successful shot history

1907 — Walter Johnson won nan first of his 417 victories, starring nan Washington Senators past nan Cleveland Indians 7-2.

1922 — Ken Williams of nan St. Louis Browns deed 2 location runs successful nan sixth inning of rout complete nan Washington Senators.

1923 — Cleveland’s Frank Bower went 6-for-6 pinch a double and 5 singles arsenic nan Indians routed nan Washington Senators 22-2.

1956 — The largest crowd successful insignificant convention history, 57,000, saw 50-year-old Satchel Paige of Miami hit Columbus successful an International League crippled astatine nan Orange Bowl.

1963 — Jim Hickman of nan New York Mets deed for nan rhythm successful a 7-3 triumph complete nan St. Louis Cardinals astatine nan Polo Grounds. Hickman’s rhythm came successful single-double-triple-homer order.

1985 — The onslaught by nan Major League Baseball Players Assn. ended pinch nan announcement of a tentative agreement. The play resumed Aug. 8.

1999 — Wade Boggs became nan first subordinate to homer for his 3,000th hit, pinch a two-run changeable successful Tampa Bay’s 15-10 nonaccomplishment to Cleveland. Boggs already had a brace of RBI singles erstwhile he homered disconnected Chris Haney successful nan sixth inning.

2004 — Greg Maddux became nan 22nd pitcher successful awesome convention history to scope 300 victories, starring nan Chicago Cubs to an 8-4 triumph complete San Francisco.

2007 — San Francisco’s Barry Bonds deed location tally No. 756 to break Hank Aaron’s storied grounds pinch 1 retired successful nan 5th inning, hitting a full-count, 84-mph fastball from Washington’s Mike Bacsik. Noticeably absent were Commissioner Bud Selig and Aaron. The Nationals won 8-6.

2016 — Ichiro Suzuki tripled disconnected nan wall for his 3,000th deed successful nan awesome leagues, becoming nan 30th subordinate to scope nan milestone arsenic nan Miami Marlins hit nan Colorado Rockies 10-7.

2016 — Baltimore’s Manny Machado became nan 2nd subordinate successful awesome convention history to homer successful nan first, 2nd and 3rd innings, driving successful a career-high 7 runs successful a 10-2 triumph complete Chicago.

2018 — Bartolo Colon of Texas became nan winningest pitcher from Latin America successful nan Rangers’ 11-4 triumph complete nan Seattle Mariners. After six tries, nan 45-year-old right-hander sewage his 246th triumph and yet collapsed nan necktie pinch Nicaragua’s Dennis Martinez. Colon gave up 4 runs and 8 hits successful 7 innings and improved his grounds to 6-10.

2021 — Host federation Japan wins its first ever golden badge successful Olympic shot by defeating nan United States 2-0.

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