“Twelve linebackers on the Trojans’ depth chart in the fall of 1989, each with the strength of a man and the exuberance of a boy, swimming in everything USC has to offer: joy and higher education and adulation, endless adrenaline surges, alcohol, cocaine if they want it, steroids if they need them. Anything to feel fearless and reckless, wild and free … Twelve college students. Five will die by age 50, their lives stamped forever with an early expiration date.” Michael Rosenberg in SI: In 1989, USC Had a Depth Chart of a Dozen Linebackers. Five Have Died, Each Before Age 50.