Monday, August 21, 2006

Seeing Bright Side of Life, and USC - LA Times
For a man once derided by USC fans for harboring what they believed was a defeatist attitude, Larry Smith is relentlessly optimistic in his battle against cancer.

The former coach, who presided over the Trojans' football fortunes for six seasons before his New Year's Day dismissal in 1993, has not backed down from chronic lymphatic leukemia — even though the disease threatened to level him last year and continues to exacerbate his other major medical issue: melanoma...

...I was rooting for USC in the Rose Bowl. My son's two oldest boys, all they wear is SC stuff. They want to play at SC. I have no bad feelings toward SC at all."...

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