Category Archives: Sports

Former USC long snapper Jake Olson made college football history at the Coliseum in September 2017 as the first completely blind player to compete in a Division I college football game. Eight years later, his not-quite-8-month-old son was having the … Continue reading →

University of Southern California (USC) football legend Jake Olson’s 1-year-old son is marking a new milestone in his journey with a rare eye cancer. Rowan Olson recently rang the bell at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) to mark the … Continue reading →

A lot of barking goes on in a college football locker room. Coaches barking at players. Players barking at each other. The entire team barking and howling just before bursting onto the field to begin a game. An actual dog … Continue reading →

Former USC long snapper Jake Olson is one of the most inspirational stories in sports over the last decade. One Oklahoma fan does not buy it. Olson, who played for the Trojans from 2015-18, lost sight in his left eye … Continue reading →

Editor’s note: Jake Olson was born with retinoblastoma, a form of eye cancer, and lost his sight at age 12. In early September of last year, in USC’s season-opening game against Western Michigan, Olson fulfilled a dream to play for … Continue reading →

What might’ve been murmurs about the off-field issues for Georgia’s football program have graduated to full-blown chatter in recent days with another arrest of a player. And the continuing nature of these problems, particularly those around dangerous driving and speeding, have made head … Continue reading →

 BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Speaking to a crowd of about 200 commercial bankers inside the historic Beverly Hilton, Jake Olson was on a roll. He had given hundreds of these types of speeches over the past decade, and it showed: The … Continue reading →