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Ben Bolch: This season has been much Sam Farmer: A distracted reaction or more enjoyable so far for D’Antoni. C4 tricky distraction by Tomlin? C14

SOCCER C2 :: COLLEGE BASKETBALL C3 :: NBA C4-5 :: NHL C6 :: COLLEGE FOOTBALL C8-11 :: HORSE RACING C12 :: HIGH SCHOOLS C13

NO. 22 UCLA 35, NO. 23 USC 14 BRAG-AND-BLUE WIN

For Haden, Hundley lifts the answer Bruins to seems clear: second in a Coach O? No row in rivalry

BILL PLASCHKE By Gary Klein As balmy late afternoon After UCLA players quickly made their way up the Coli- turned to seum tunnel Saturday night, chilly dark- Bruins Coach Jim Mora ness, the gathered his team outside coronation of the locker room and made a USC’s new pronouncement. football coach “We own L.A.!” Mora devolved from shouted. acrisp exclamation to a Quarterback Brett harsh declaration. Hundley, kick returner Ish- “Coach O!” had become mael Adams and a tough “Coach Whoa.” Bruins defense that forced In the biggest game of his two turnovers had just led interim tenure Saturday No. 22 UCLA to a 35-14 vic- night, Ed Orgeron’s USC tory over No. 23 USC in the football team was passion- 83rd game between the ate and disciplined. crosstown rivals. It was also a 35-14 loser to “It was awesome,” line- UCLA, the Bruins’ first backer Anthony Barr said. victory at the Coliseum in 16 “It’s our city and it will be years. that way for a while.” In his final regular-sea- UCLA shared the Colise- son audition for a perma- um with USC until 1981, but nent position, Orgeron the Bruins had struggled at shook fists and patted hel- the venue for more than a mets and commanded the decade. sidelines with his giant No longer. The Bruins positive presence. won at the Coliseum for the Then the game ended first time since1997, ending a and he jogged sheepishly to streak of seven losses that midfield to congratulate included a 50-0 beatdown UCLA Coach Jim Mora, who two years ago. owned the Trojans and the The Bruins, however, building and the night. [See UCLA-USC, C11] By then, the hands of the relatively few kids remain- ing in the USC student section were mostly stuck in their pockets instead of held over their heads in the [See Plaschke, C10] Now he’s officially a USC nemesis Brett Hundley becomes only the fourth UCLA quarterback to beat the NO. 3 OHIO STATE 42 Trojans twice. C9 MICHIGAN 41 USC can pound Wolverines lose ball with ‘Buck’ two-point gamble One bright spot for Tro- Buckeyes stay unbeaten Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times jans in loss: They appear by intercepting last- UCLA’S CASSIUS MARSH wraps up USC’s Cody Kessler for the second time in the first quarter. Marsh set at tailback with Javo- minute conversion try. C7 also recovered a Kessler fumble in the fourth quarter to end the Trojans’ last real chance. rius “Buck” Allen. C9

REPRESENTING NO. 4 AUBURN 34, NO. 1ALABAMA 28 HIMSELF ANEW BCS title-game Now sober, former sports super agent Leigh Steinberg is starting over picture gets fuzzy

really smart drunks. New possibilities surface after the By Diane Pucin “They’re very good at it.” Now Steinberg is starting Crimson Tide is upset in a wild ending Leigh Steinberg was once over. No clients yet. He has a known for his boyish good handful of employees, son’s playoffs? looks and an elite clientele though. And the new Stein- CHRIS DUFRESNE (We’re kidding). ON COLLEGE FOOTBALL that included Troy Aikman, berg Sports and Entertain- And what if we told you Warren Moon and a multi- ment has been recertified by biggest loser Alabama tude of other famous names. the NFLPA. Now that your heart might still be coming to the Until it all fell apart. Steinberg, 64, wasonce rates have retreated to Rose Bowl thisseason, just Sipping from a bottle of the super agent of all super somewhere near normal, not for the title game Jan. 6? water, he talks about it in the agents, representing clients didn’t we tell you the Bowl College football simply third person. such as Aikman, Moon, Championship Series (al- can’t get crazier, or better. “Here’s the thing about Steve Bartkowski and 150 Dave Martin Associated Press most) always works out? It started in the morning drunks,” Steinberg says. other professional baseball, CHRIS DAVIS (11) of Auburn returns a missed field- Shoot, after days like when No. 3 Ohio State held “They’re good at it. basketball, boxing and goal try more than 100 yards for a game-ending Saturday, why are they even off Michigan’s two-point “Here’s the thing about [See Steinberg, C13] touchdown against top-ranked Alabama. scrapping it for next sea- [See Dufresne, C7]