Tunnel Vision - Legendary Los Angeles sports columnist Bill Plaschke talks USC football and Southern California sports

Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

Ryan Abraham - USCFootball,com publisher

Sports, Basketball, Football

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Tunnel Vision host Ryan Abraham was back in studio and joined by one of the most prominent sports voices in Southern California, Los Angeles Times page one sports columnist Bill Plaschke. He has spent the last 34 years at the Times including 25 as the featured columnist, was named Associated Press sports writer of the year 8 times, is the author of 5 books and is a regular guest on ESPN's Around the Horn program. Plaschke discusses a number of topics on the show including the crazy 2020 COVID-19 sports season, the Arizona State recruiting scandal, the state of the Pac-12 conference, where the Trojan football team sites in the Los Angeles sports team hierarchy, what head coach Clay Helton needs to do in 2021 to retain his job and lots more. This is a podcast version of our video show Tunnel Vision that you can find on our Facebook or YouTube pages. Unfortunately, Bill's video connection deteriorated over the course of the show so we are putting up this interview exclusively as a podcast. Make sure you check out USCFootball.com for complete coverage of this USC Trojan football team. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Music
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0:40.0	Everyone, welcome to a very special edition of Tunnel Vision. I'm your host, Ryan Abraham, joined by
0:44.0	Legendary Sports columnist here in Los Angeles, Bill Plashky, 25 years at the LA Times.
0:50.0	I think eight times the AP National Sports right of the year, you can see him on around the horn.
0:54.0	Lots of philanthropy work with kids, big brothers. I've been a big brother in myself in the past, so I have great stuff.
1:00.0	But Bill, thanks for coming on the show.
1:02.0	Thanks, you're the legend. I love you, your outfit, your staff,
1:06.0	Healy's tremendous shotgun, the shotgun ever, but
1:10.0	I saw him once without a cap on and I didn't recognize him. So is that a rule he has to wear his cap on backwards?
1:16.0	That's his thing. He wears always wears like a tie and everything. He wears the top of the thing.
1:20.0	He's the best dressed guy in the press box, then he has to be top of the backwards cap.
1:26.0	For years, that's been his thing.
1:28.0	That's just he's the baseball guy. He loves it, but he works over with you guys at the LA Times.
1:32.0	To yeah, he's tremendous.
1:34.0	Oh, you've got a great, I follow your Twitter feed all the time. It gets tremendous.
1:38.0	It's a go-to place for USC stuff.
1:40.0	Well, good job. Thanks, Bill. I appreciate that.
1:42.0	You thought it was an old man who didn't follow that social media stuff.
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