Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times
So I get to USC on Monday and Tim Tessalone, the school's sports information director, says Pete Carroll and Mike Garrett will speak at an afternoon news conference.
"You can get [Garrett] off to the side, too," Tessalone says, his way of suggesting I not dominate Garrett during the main news conference. "He stays at these things for as long as people want to talk to him."
Time for the news conference, and there are two chairs beside the podium, one presumably for Carroll and the other for Garrett.
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