USC Football Players Sacked By Rash of Jock Itch

SbB posted 8/14/2008 from www.sportsbybrooks.com [flag]

About 25% of USC's football players were scratched from practice, after a rash of jock itch made its way up the Trojans' roster. [link]

USC Football Players Sacked By Rash of Jock Itch

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Morning Blogdome: Erin Andrews Is Also Mesmerized By Heidi Watney [Morning Blogdome]
Published 8/14/2008 by DAULERIO at Deadspin
... • They blamed it on those goddamned Nerds: "There’s a reason they call it “jock itch”. It being a particular rash that occurs more frequently with athletes because of the running, sweating, etc. However, it’s not usually considered a major medical problem. Unless you’re at USC Trojan football practice." [SBB] ...

Reporters' Notebooks
Published 8/14/2008 by dawizofodds (noreply@blogger.com) at The Wizard of Odds
... to play a two-game series beginning next year. Jason Lieser, Palm Beach Post: That's what I'm talking about. Former Miami standout Lamar Thomas is now an assistant coach at Boynton Beach High in Florida. You might remember Thomas from the Backyard Brawl. Bruins Nation: They're already getting fired up in Seattle for Nov. 15, the day Rick Neuheisel returns with his UCLA Bruins. Sports By Brooks: A rash of jock itch at USC, with about 25% of the players scratched from practice. ...

Amputee Ball Girl Puts Your Lazy Butt To Shame
Published 8/28/2008 by The Duke at SPORTSbyBROOKS
At 24, Kelly Bruno is a little bit older than the other ball girls working at the US Open. She also happens to be quite attractive, as you can tell from her Web site . But neither of these facts is what makes her stand out from the rest of the ball girls as much as this: Bruno is an amputee. Kelly Bruno Kelly has taken on the job as ball girl as a way to raise awareness about what disabled athletes and non-athletes can accomplish. And to say that her story is quite impressive is an understatement. From the NEW YORK TIMES : Bruno was born with several defects in her right leg and has been an amputee since she was 6 months old. By 18, she had turned ...

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The Trojans Have Itchy Balls

FanIQ Blog found this 8/14/2008 on slanchreport.com

What in the world is going on over at USC, the Trojans are becoming more and more of questionable program. First there was the video of Pete Carroll and hundreds of shirtless teenagers and now the team is besieged by a devastating ailment, jock ...

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Posted 8/15/2008 on Buckeye Commentary

It is hard enough to tackle Joe McKnight and the rest of the USC skill players. To make things more interesting, each tackle may come with a punishment in the form of fungi. The L.A. Times is reporting that a large portion of the team has some serious jock itch. As much as 25% of the team has been affected by the apparent run of tinea cruris, kicker David Buehler estimated. The condition ...

Another injury for USC

Posted 8/15/2008 on SmackCaster SmackBlog

Stud running back Joe McKnight hurts his hand in a dorm accident when a door is closed on two of his fingers. That makes the QB with a dislocated kneecap, a player with Rocky Mountain spotted fever and lord knows how many Trojans suffering from jock itch.

Oh.......Nasty....

Posted 8/15/2008 on Saturday Sound Offs-The Blog for the College Football Junkie

Somebody give this to the USC Trojans' football team, please. Apparently the sudden injury to Mark Sanchez's knee isn't the only news coming out of USC camp. The team has suffered from an outbreak of jock itch . I'm sure some of you have an idea of what it is, but in case you don't, read this excerpt from Wikipedia: As the common name for this condition implies, it causes itching or a ...

DUI Won’t Stop Michael Phelps From Shilling Beer

Posted 8/14/2008 on SPORTSbyBROOKS

• Anheuser-Busch is willing to dive into a marketing deal with Olympic star Michael Phelps , even though the swimmer has a DUI on his record . • A quarter of USC’s football players are jumped by a jock itch epidemic . • One sore Swede slams his bronze medal to the mat after feeling wronged in his wrestling match. • Toledo gets ready to welcome the second coming of Emeka Okafor ...

Trojans Come Down With Jock Itch, Apparently Don't Offer Players Enough Protection

Posted 8/14/2008 on Maize n Brew

Sorry Conquest Chronicles , I had to. God Bless Fox Sports for being low brow enough to run this . " A late scratch: Jock itch sidelines USC players " I have my theories about how this happened. You have to have fun with this: "Chafed Trojans Sratching Their Heads Over Equipment Problems" or "Trojans Burning After Hands on Practice." or, of course, via img.vayatele.com ...

25% of USC players have jock itch

Posted 8/14/2008 on Fanblogs.com

I have no idea how this sort of thing makes it in the newspaper, let alone the LA Times .... Each day, it seems, another player shows up at USC football practice with a pained expression and an uncomfortable gait, feet spread wide, stepping gingerly across the turf. They are victims of an ailment that has swept through the team during training camp, something that coaches refer to as "a ...

Nike Sabotages USC With Jock Itch Infested Shorts!

Posted 8/14/2008 on Building The Dam

Nike Sabotages USC With Jock Itch Infested Shorts! "...the Trojans are hoping for similar luck with what Carroll delicately referred to as chafing. "We've had to adjust to some new equipment that we're wearing that didn't work out right," he said. "It's funny how that happened." Maybe not so funny to the players. "Sometimes they can't walk," said tailback Stafon Johnson, who ...

USC Forced to Evacuate Campus In Wake of Crotch-Eating Fungus Outbreak

Posted 8/14/2008 on FanHouse

Now I'm not a religious person, but it's difficult to overlook the symbolism of the Southern Cal football team, who have over the last few years been the very embodiment of decadence, excess, and godless hedonism, being savagely struck down by a biblical plague of crotch-gnawing jock itch . That's right, folks, you read that correctly. Fully 25% of the Trojan football team has contracted a ...

Jock itch bites USC gridders

Posted 8/14/2008 on SmackCaster SmackBlog

It’s been a rough road to the first game of the season for Pete Carroll and USC. First, quarterback Mark Sanchez dislocates a knee before a practice. And now, the LA Times reports that as much as as 25% of the team has been affected by tinea cruris , also known as jock itch . The problem appears to have been caused by new compression shorts or tights worn under their pants. ...

LA Times Expose: 25% of USC Football Players Have Jock Itch [College Football]

Posted 8/14/2008 on Deadspin

Jock itch is actually the subject of their article . ESPN is so pissed that somebody else gets to write about USC's genitals. Expect a full-hour feature on Mitch Mustain's ballsweat on College Football Live tomorrow. Until then, we all feel tailback Travon Patterson's pain: "It burns," he told the LA Times . Going deep undercover, the paper reports: While dislocated kneecaps and high ankle ...

WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU JOCK ITCH, MAKE JOCKITCHADE

Posted 8/14/2008 on EDSBS

The Trojans are suffering through both the injury of their starting quarterback and an epidemic of some former Russian Military jock itch let loose upon their blue chip ladystands. Our take is over at the Sporting Blog , but here and only here can you purchase the shirt that, Trojans fans, you must be wearing when USC takes the field with a burning desire to compete and scratch away the ...

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