Whicker: USC pulls a hidden-ball trick in plain sight

LOS ANGELES — It’s too easy to call it the Immaculate Deception, even though it was as clean as the grounds at Augusta National, and it was about as easy as football gets.
Michael Pittman took a punt and ran it 72 yards down the left sideline, past a disbelieving and ecstatic USC bench.
Nine UCLA punt coverers never saw him. They converged on Ajene Harris, who was on the right hashmark, circling and squinting and acting as if he were making the catch. Critically, he did not raise his