No Roses for Harry?
With the NFL looking to bring back professional football to Los
Angeles, a business group, led by billionaire Philip Anschutz, is
proposing to build a 64,000-seat downtown football stadium adjacent
to the Staples Center. There is interest in bringing UCLA or USC
into the proposed stadium.
UCLA’s contract with the Rose Bowl expires at the end of
the 2003 season.
“We did make the UCLA administration aware of our public
announcement last week,” Anschutz Entertainment Group
spokesman Michael Roth said. “We have not had any formal
discussions with the administration of any university, but we would
love to have one or both of those universities play at the
stadium.”
Retiring athletic director, Peter Dalis, did not rule out the
possibility of moving to the proposed stadium.
“We have a good relationship with the management team at
the Rose Bowl … and the Rose Bowl has been our venue for 30
years,” he said in a statement. “At the same time, if a
state-of-the-art facility is being considered in Los Angeles, and
we were to be contacted by the parties involved in that facility,
we would feel an obligation to speak with them.”
Male bonding
Pack your bags. Pre-season camp is moving off campus to build
team unity. Fall camp will be held at Cal Lutheran University in
Thousand Oaks, where the Dallas Cowboys staged camp for over a
decade prior to 1990.
“We feel that the move will provide our team a chance to
come together and bond,” head coach Bob Toledo said in a
statement.
“Team chemistry has become an increasingly important
component of success in athletics and being at Cal Lutheran will
give us a chance to lay the foundation for the coming
season.”
Two-a-day workouts begin Saturday, Aug. 17, and pre-season camp
concludes with the annual fall scrimmage at Drake Stadium, Aug. 24.
The season and home opener is Saturday, Sept. 7 against Colorado
State.
Compiled by Hannah Gordon and Scott Schultz, Daily Bruin Senior
Staff.