Whicker: USC’s Clancy Pendergast has seen cotton fields to Cotton Bowl, and everything in between

LOS ANGELES — The ball traveled from Ben Roethlisberger’s fingertips to Santonio Holmes’ hands like a magic bullet. It triggered confetti and shipped a fifth Super Bowl trophy to the Steelers’ case.
A week later it was still potent enough to put Clancy Pendergast out of work.
“Nine of the 11 starters had been with me for four out of the five years I was in Arizona,” Pendergast said the other day, at Howard Jones Field. “It’s disappointing but nothi