John Skinner

Husband, Father, Realtor, Mentor, Former CIF championship hoops coach, Crossroads/SC Grad

[Luca Evans @bylucaevans]

Lindsay Gottlieb — always on the pulse.

Heartfelt postgame speech to fans at Galen after USC’s win over Penn State.

“There were over 6,000 people here tonight. And with so many people in our beloved community that have lost a lot, you cannot take our community away from us.”

[Luca Evans @bylucaevans]

By my eye, covering her for past couple yrs — JuJu Watkins’ best all-around game of her USC career v. Penn State.

35 points, started 11/11, finished 13-15. 11 boards, 5 steals, 3 blocks. Continues to improve reading defenses.

Now up to 25.5 ppg on 46.5% shooting her soph yr

[Josh Gessner @joshgessner]

Shohei Ohtani just became the only member of the 50/50 Club.

I've spent *hours* binging Japanese video to study him.

Here's 7 things he does (that makes him so great):

#ohtani #大谷翔平

[Stanford Steve @StanfordSteve82]

Appreciate Dave Roberts taking the time to chat with SVP after Ohtani goes 50/50.

[Lindsay Gottlieb @CoachLindsayG]

Being the BEST at what you do, and walking away on you own terms, on your own time. That’s winning. Everyone knows Woj for the 💣…I know him mainly as a selfless, thoughtful friend that will go the extra mile to help others. A true gem of a human. I am so happy for him.

[talia von oelhoffen @TaliaVono]

explaining basketball season to the freshmen: it’s a marathon not a sprint.. actually no it’s a marathon but you have to sprint

[Minnesota Vikings @Vikings]

Our guy Sam.

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

"You got 2 quarterbacks right now that have sat around and paid their dues...They didn't leave because they were frustrated after a year or 2."

Kirk Herbstreit LSU QB Garrett Nussmeier and USC QB Miller Moss.

[RichSC @OriginalRichSC]

Holding an LSU team with that much talent to 20 points is a great start for DC D'Anton Lynn. He seems to have turned this defense around. Very few missed tackles. Not many blown assignments. And gutsy, clutch play when they needed it. Big ups to the Trojan D.

[Courtney Jaco @jaco_usc]

LOVED chatting with you, Mark! Appreciate you, and all you do for our game✌🏽@MG_Schindler

Check out the episode here⬇️

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Commanders are naming Brandon Sosna as their senior vice president of football operations. Sosna spent the past two seasons with the Lions as their senior director of football administration, overseeing Detroit’s strategic planning, salary-cap management and serving as their chief contract negotiator.

[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

The best athlete entrepreneur of all time may be Junior Bridgeman.

He made $4 Million during his NBA career but turned that into a net worth of $600 Million.

He worked at Wendy's during the off-season to learn the business, and then owned over 300 Wendy's and Chilli's franchises.

[USC Beach Volleyball @USCBeach]

🏆 2015 AVCA
🏆 2016 NCAA
🏆 2017 NCAA
🏆 2021 NCAA
🏆 2022 NCAA
🏆 2023 NCAA
🏆 2024 NCAA

7️⃣ TIME NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!

#FightOn

[Lindsay Gottlieb @CoachLindsayG]

Dain Blanton! The absolute standard. #FightOn

[USC Women's Basketball @USCWBB]

JuJu x Sho Time

A couple of LA’s stars linked up at the @Dodgers Gala tonight 🤩

[HoopsAnalyst @HoopsAnalyst]

Hollinger POTD Austin Croshere. Providence PF was drafted 12th in 97 by IND. Became instant offense 6th man for IND for 9 yrs, peaking at 10 ppg. Also played w/DAL, MIL, GS & SA thru 2009. Had nice well-rounded offensive game. Now, a TV analyst.

[Adrian Wojnarowski @wojespn]

Just in: Former Stanford F Kiki Iriafen — the potential No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft — has committed to the USC Trojans, she tells ESPN. Iriafen will return to her LA home to team with Juju Watkins on a national title contender for coach Lindsay Gottlieb.

[Adrian Wojnarowski @wojespn]

ESPN Sources: University of Southern California women’s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb – who’s rapidly restored the Trojans to a national powerhouse -- has agreed on a contract extension that’ll take her through 2030: https://t.co/Spe19IS6HX

[QE Infinity @StealthQE4]

Redfin CEO says housing is in a recession and he’s never seen anything like it in 20 years as CEO.

He summarized the problems well. Worth the read👇👇

Link attached below

“Last year, existing home sales fell to their lowest point in almost 30 years. The housing market froze, and it’s only just begun to thaw. Mortgage rates were the highest they’ve been in more than 20 years, and they’ve come down since, but are still high compared with those of the pandemic. In the past week or so, mortgage rates surged again, reaching their highest level in months, 7.50%. Home prices are high, too. “The cost of buying a home has gone up again, and prices haven’t come down,” Kelman said. “So the Fed keeps trying to tame inflation with rate increases, but at least one sector is untamable, and that is housing.”

It’s anxiety-inducing, he said. Housing is a basic need, and would-be buyers who held out last year are tired of waiting. Millennials who’ve delayed starting a family, putting off plans, can only wait so long, Kelman said. He’s never seen anything like it, calling it the “worst situation” for the housing market. “Housing is in this recession, and the rest of the economy is booming,” he said.
“I was the CEO during the Great Financial Crisis,” he continued. “Sales volume went down but prices did, too.” One problem fixed another, Kelman said. Usually when sales decline, prices drop too, and then sales increase later—that’s the cycle, he said. Homes become affordable again, and sales pick up because of it. This situation is very different. Interest rates are up, and sales volume has fallen through the floor, as he put it, but home prices haven’t followed. “Some of that is just this artifact of 30-year mortgages,” he said. Everything the Federal Reserve is doing has no real effect on homeowners, apart from keeping them where they are. “It actually has the perverse effect of keeping home prices high,” Kelman explained.”

[Jeff Goodman @GoodmanHoops]

BREAKING: Washington head coach Danny Sprinkle is expected to hire former USC and San Diego State assistant Tony Bland, source told @TheFieldOf68.

Absolutely LOVE this hire, and that Sprinkle is giving him a chance to get back into D-1 coaching.

Bland hasn't coached since being fired by USC in January 2018 after being one of 10 individuals arrested in September 2017 in connection with the FBI's investigation into corruption.

Bland served a 3-year show-cause, but has been out for nearly 7 years because the investigation moved so slow. Bland was previously the head basketball coach at St. Bernard High School, and also coached AAU basketball and worked with troubled youth in the Los Angeles area in his time out of college basketball.