Lane Kiffin gets splashed across the USC sports mag’s house organ but notable is the reduction of the Reggie Bush number (see arrow).  It’s hard to know how to greet this news, because the impact is arguably negligible. USC has a sizable (and growing) liability in Kiffin as days (and sportswriter deadlines) pass. Coachnapping Kiffin looks like some kind of superhero of the Astroturf, just as yesterday Bush was USC’s Golden Boy.

The Titans have reason to sink Tiffin’s cred. Considering the quality of education at USC these days, is it a notable sell point to feature the number of college players the Trojans export to the NFL? The fabric of the USC educational mission seems to be…fraying. Once Bush and Kififn get to wrastlin’ with them that thar NCAA committee, there won’t be a dry piece of chaw South of the Mason Dixon line.

Iroquois national lacrosse team has now abandoned plans of traveling to the World Lacrosse Championships in Britain on Saturday, after British officials forbade the team from entering the United Kingdom with tribal passports.

The team was held at John F. Kennedy International Airport this week, initially forbidden from traveling with their Iroquois national passports. Britain and the United States had honored these documents until new updated border security rules took effect.

The players were then forced to forfeit two scheduled games. The U.S. State Department then cleared the American-born Iroquois players to attend the tournament under a one-time exemption, but Britain refused to give an exemption.

In a Saturday statement, Chief Oren R. Lyons, the team’s honorary chairman, said that the players did not withdraw from the tournament and that the Iroquois would work on upgrading its documents to international security standards.

The devil that is Lane Kiffin may actually supercede the legend of Pete Carroll if the latest off the sports wires is any indication. Kiffin continues his F-you to former alma mater Tennessee by stealing their defensive coach, without by-your-leave. Lane Kiffin was part of the Nashville, Tennessee organization long enough to know that just ain’t the Southern way.

Kiffin may actually be coining new terms in the lexicon of coaching bad-boy behavior, in a field rife with distinguished elder statesmen of the breed. The Titans are suing Kiffin and the USC organization for poaching Kenneth Pola. Those better be some amazing running backs at the Coliseum come August scrimmage time, or Kiffin will be wishing Pete Carroll never heard the word “seahawk”.

Longhair pitcher Tim Lincecum is creating buzz with his pot bust, All-Star credentials, and right handed finesse. San Francisco has a Giant legend in the making with Tim “the Freak” Lincecum, who approaches Manny Ramirez levels of conversation hokum. Hallmarks of the professional league sports hero in the making are(1) discussion of his girlfriend, (2) speculation about the longevity of his velocity, and (3) multiple Cy Young hardware for bookends. The Tilt-Dangle-Reach Combo that arms his cannon may be the record setter for the Smartphone generation to text and Twitter anon about.