No guts, no glory

Does Bill Plaschke feel as if he is under pressure to write feel-good fluff articles about UCLA football to balance the current dynastic winning football at USC? I mean a whole article praising Rick Neuheisel for merely asking highly respected and talented UCLA alum Ken Norton to come work with him? And how amazing that he asks fired Titans assistant coach Norm Chow to come work with him even when Chow had already expressed interest in UCLA. Wow, what a gutty little Bruin that Rick is!

Richard Karliss

Malibu

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Someone, perhaps his doctor, should get T.J. Simers back on his lithium regimen. He isn’t funny, he is nominally coherent and a close reading of his column on Pete Carroll proves he is not only functionally illiterate; he’s boorishly stubborn. Simers may not, but Coach Carroll has far more important things to do with his time.

Richard N. Meyer

Los Angeles