It’s a Week That Goux Would Have Loved

Marv Goux, the former USC assistant football coach who died in July, always embodied the Trojan spirit. In an interview with WeAreSC.com in April 2001, he said he’d had three desires in life -- to play football at a major university, to play against Notre Dame and to play in the Rose Bowl.

His first game against the Irish was in 1952 at South Bend, Ind.

“To walk out for that game and look up at that stadium -- I had already played in front of 100,000 people and we were going to the Rose Bowl -- so I said to myself, ‘If I die tomorrow, I’ve lived.’ ”

True passion: The Daily Trojan’s Gloria Rodriguez points out that Goux could name the entire Irish team he lined up against in 1952, that he knew the words to the Notre Dame fight song and that he played it every year on the day USC and Notre Dame met.

Goux, up until his death, often made the trip from his home in Palm Desert to deliver speeches to USC players before Notre Dame games.

Senior cornerback Darrell Rideaux said, “It was chilling. You could hear the passion in his voice. His beady eyes were beamed on you. He got everybody’s attention.”

Trivia time: What was the halftime score of the 1974 USC-Notre Dame game, won by the Trojans, 55-24?

It’s not a weekly: Tennis Week publisher Eugene Scott has told readers that the magazine is scaling back to 11 issues in 2003 to “better serve our subscribers,” according to Romenesko’s MediaNews.

The magazine may also want to consider a name change.

Now this: The New York Times, which editorialized that Tiger Woods should boycott the Masters because women aren’t allowed to become members of Augusta National, last week conducted a poll on the issue.

Of 846 adults polled, 55% of the men said they were opposed to a private club having to change its policies, and the women were dead even.

And from Tiger: Woods taped an interview with his good friend Charles Barkley, which will air on Barkley’s TNT show, “Listen Up!” on Thursday at 4 p.m.

Said Barkley, “If you boycott Augusta, I’m going to beat the hell out of you. Martha Burk and Jesse Jackson are really starting to ... me off. Are you getting frustrated by it?”

Answered Woods, “It is frustrating. Everyone asks the same question. They are just waiting [for me] to say something controversial. I would like to see a woman member at Augusta, but it’s not my decision. I’m an invited guest, like everyone else. I’m not a member.”

Trivia answer: Notre Dame led at halftime, 24-6. It was 24-0 before Anthony Davis scored shortly before the end of the half.

And finally: The Lakers put Samaki Walker on the injured list Tuesday, which should simplify things for announcers Paul Sunderland and Stu Lantz. Now there’s only Soumaila Samake.

Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe, in a recent column, noted that the Lakers had been “trying to win games with Soumaila Samake and Samaki Walker at center.”

Wondered Ryan, “Whatever happened to guys named Harry and Joe?”

-- Larry Stewart