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Giuliana Olmos, a sophomore at USC, plays on the women's tennis team.

She wanted to do something to make a difference in her community, so she organized an inter-sport tennis tournament to raise money for charity.

Then she learned one of her teammate's moms had breast cancer.

She said:

Tags: athlete, athletes, awareness, benefit, breast, breast cancer, charity, college, community, diagnosed, mom, play, school, sport, tennis, tournament, usc

Trying to cut back on calories from snack food? Try switching hands!

A study from the University of Southern California has found people using their nondominant hand to eat snack food reduced about 30% of their total intake, compared with those using their dominant hands.

Researcher David Neal, who was an assistant professor in psychology at the time of the study, says:

"If people disrupt the physical sequence of action that is in automatic eating, that’s one way to gain some control.”

The findings were a result of an initial study on the effect a snacker's environment has on their consumption.

Tags: calories, environment, movies, popcorn, study, theater, university of southern california, usc

This man is yummy!

While shooting a new NFL TV spot for Pepsi MAX, Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez took a few minutes to talk about his latino roots, the upcoming season, and his pregame locker room rituals!

Check out the interview above and be on the lookout for his latest Pepsi MAX commercial!

Good luck this season, Mark!

Tags: jets, latino, locker room, mark sanchez, nfl, pepsi, pepsi max, rituals, usc

These guys have got some golf-sized balls!

The Bethany College golf team has been suspended after posing nude for an unofficial team photo.

It's a real bummer to hear because (A) they aren't (completely) exposed and (B) we think the picture brings some much needed excitement to the sport! LOL!

We can understand the controversy given the fact that the school is located in the middle of Kansas, but bigger schools like USC are too busy punishing kids for banging on rooftops to care about some pic posted on Facebook.

Bethany College athletic director Jon Daniels suspended the team from three tournaments, saying:

Tags: bethany college, college, funny, kansas, lols, naked, nude pictures, posing nude, silly, usc, xxx

Romeo, who used to make us say "Awww!" as a kid, covered the newest issue of Kraze magazine and at 21-years-old is making us say "Wow!"

Now head of No Limit Forever (formerly No Limit Records), started by his father Master P, the little rapper has grown up in a fine looking young man with KILLER abs!

After just reaching the legal drinking age, he's done more than most people by the time they reach the legal age to retire!

He's had a #1 single, competed on Dancing With The Stars, played college basketball at USC, is an accomplished actor, AND is the head of a record company!

This guys got a bright future ahead of him and knows it too! In his interview for the magazine, he said:

"I feel God really blessed me with talent. I’m one of those people, I really do feel [that] life [has] no limit. You only limit yourself to what you want to do. I really feel if you’re good at it, then go out and do it."

His drive and passion for success is probably one of the many reasons he's a hit with the ladies, most recently actress Meagan Good. Put all his success to side, however, and we STILL see 6 more obvious reasons in the pictures above why any gal would be interested in a guy like Romeo!

Tags: actor, actress, basketball, future, kraze magazine, meagan good, talented, usc

Bad news for USC’s reputation!

Former USC football player, Lonnie White, admitted to taking $14,000 in illegal payments during the four years he played for the team in the 80s.

He got the money by selling the four season tickets given to each player, which is illegal. White admitted his mistake in a first-person story for The Daily.

White wrote:

"To this day, it's something I'm ashamed about. Rent was overdue, and my household bills were delinquent. I needed the money to live. So accepting the $14,000 in different forms of 'benefits' over my college years three decades ago was an act of survival."

He continued:

"Even though I knew what I was doing was wrong, it seemed like everyone I knew who played college football enjoyed some type of extra benefits as a player."

We think the football community will find it in their hearts to forgive him, no matter how wack selling tickets illegally is!

[Image via AP Images.]

Tags: illegal, tickets, usc

It's no secret that a night of boozing may damage our memory, but a new study suggests that's because boozing may be damaging our brains!

Published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, a study has found a "clear association" between binge drinking and difficulty with tasks linked to the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex brain regions. The hippocampus region's specifically affects our memory and ability to learn, while the prefrontal cortex affects our behavior functions.

The study gave a series of simple language and memory tests to 122 college students between the ages of 18 and 20. About half were self-identified binge drinkers and the rest drank alcohol moderately.

Students were asked to read lists of words, then recall as many of them as they could in increasingly difficult exercises. They were also told two stories, then asked to recount them as accurately as possible.

The results showed that binge drinkers performed worse than the other group in nearly all the word-based tests, finding they were more easily distracted by new information, recalled fewer words, and retained about 4 percent less of the information in the stories.

Thomas Hicklin, M.D., assistant professor of clinical psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Southern California, believes this study shows risks of drinking that students should be aware of, saying:

"This is an important topic and a multifaceted problem. There's a lot of peer pressure when it comes to binge drinking, but students need to protect their brains."

Luckily for fans of regular beer pong, researchers are not sure if any damage done to the hippocampus is permanent, but study authors aim to find out.

They have called for long-term studies that would follow groups of students before and after they started binge drinking regularly in hopes of clarifying the effects of heavy drinking on short-term memory and academic performance.

[Image via AP Images.]

Tags: alcoholism, beer, brain, college, hippocampus, memory, prefrontal cortex, research, researchers, study beer pong, usc