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By BILL PLASCHKE
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The Trojans were missing two of their top players at practice Tuesday, but Coach Henry Bibby said he expects both Sam Clancy (strained groin) and Jarvis Turner (ankle sprain) to be fine for Thursday’s regional semifinal game against Kentucky.

“Sam can use the rest anyway,” Bibby said.

Their practice, conducted at the Palestra on the campus of Penn, lasted nearly two hours and finished with a team meeting presumably about focus.

“I’m trying to get everybody focused again, get them all back on track,” Bibby said.

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Bill Plaschke

Bill Plaschke, an L.A. Times sports columnist since 1996, is a member of the National Sports Media Hall of Fame and California Sports Hall of Fame. He has been named national Sports Columnist of the Year nine times by the Associated Press, and twice by the Society of Professional Journalists and National Headliner Awards. He is the author of six books, including a collection of his columns entitled “Plaschke: Good Sports, Spoilsports, Foul Balls and Oddballs.” Plaschke is also a panelist on the popular ESPN daily talk show, “Around the Horn.” He is in the national Big Brothers/Big Sisters Alumni Hall of Fame and has been named Man of the Year by the Los Angeles Big Brothers/Big Sisters as well as receiving a Pursuit of Justice Award from the California Women’s Law Center. Plaschke has appeared in a movie (“Ali”), a dramatic HBO series (“Luck”) and, in a crowning cultural moment he still does not quite understand, his name can be found in a rap song “Females Welcome” by Asher Roth.

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