Welcome to the Valentine’s Day edition of Spanning the Globe. While I begin to thaw out from the ice storm that just hit, here’s a nice collection of links for today.

• A look at USC’s recruiting efforts this year, and a run down of all of the off-field problems surrounding the program over the last year or so from Irish Round Table. Pete Carroll really is running a tight ship out there in LA.
• A nice post about how John Carlson could be used to offset the inexperience of Notre Dame’s wide receivers next year by Jay at BGS. He also posted a link to this nice highlight reel of Carlson on YouTube.
• Day two of the Weis malpractice lawsuit from Fox Sports. Charlie took the stand today.
• Some what of a fluff piece from NBC Sports on Jimmy Clausen on the quarterback race, but it’s a fairly slow day.
• This is an old article from BGI, but it didn’t get much press. It’s an article about the recruitment of Kory Minor and really is a MUST read for any Notre Dame fan. It’s worth the time to read and is one of the better pieces on Notre Dame I’ve read in a while.
• The #1 ranked Notre Dame hockey team closes out the season with a series at Alaska. I’m not much of a hockey fan, but it would definitely be nice to see them go all the way.
• More on the Illinois-Notre Dame recruiting drama. Funny, people seem to have a problem if Notre Dame is making baseless claims about violations at Illinois, but no one seems to care if journalists are making baseless claims that Notre Dame is the one leaking information.
• Clock changes might be coming again this year. Looks like the NCAA might take back the asinine clock changes that they made a year ago.

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