Sam Darnold slowly learning to live in the spotlight

On the day after he led USC to its biggest victory of the post-Pete Carroll era, Sam Darnold waited for a table at a Buffalo Wild Wings in Aliso Viejo and assumed he remained unnoticeable.
Darnold arrived there with his parents, Mike and Chris, and older sister, Franki. He wore a Concordia University T-shirt and ball cap — the family later drove another 10 miles north that evening to watch Sam’s cousin, Andrew Hammer, play for the school’s men’s volleyball team. Within mi