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Boyd considered top dual-threat athlete

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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This should make Tim Floyd happy.

Two of the players selected to CalHiSports’ all-state grid-hoop first team are headed to USC. And they both have said they expect to play basketball for the Trojans as well as football.

Los Angeles Jordan athlete extraordinaire James Boyd, a defensive end who also played forward for the Bulldogs, was selected the top dual sport athlete. Also on the first team is future Trojan teammate Kevin Greene, who registered 28 sacks his senior season and snagged 20 rebounds for Sacred Heart Cathedral during its Division III state championship victory over Ocean View.

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Santa Barbara’s Roberto Nelson and Serrano’s Jamaal Franklin were also selected to the first team, Los Alamitos’ Clark Evans and Twentynine Palms’ Montreal Harris were on the second team and Citrus Hills’ Caleb Herring was on the third team.

--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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