Football: Powell receives bowl jersey

Staff Writer

Sept. 30, 2009 1:14 PM PT

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Rancho Verde senior linebacker Ronald Powell received his jersey for the 2010 U.S. Army All-American Bowl on Tuesday in a ceremony at the school in which the Golden Knights parachute team dropped in the jersey. ‘It’s a great honor to be playing in this game,’ Powell said. ‘Not just for me but also for my school. ... It’s overwhelming.’

The game, which will be played Jan. 9 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, is in its 10th year and has featured eventual Heisman Trophy winners Reggie Bush and Tim Tebow.

‘The greatest have played in this game and hopefully I’ll be one of the greatest,’ Powell said. ‘It’s an honor to play in this game and represent me and my family.’

The U.S. Army selection tour will make stops at Corona on Tuesday to honor an undisclosed bowl participant and Taft on Wednesday to honor running back D.J. Morgan, who has also been selected to participate.

--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.