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  • 08 March 2012 No one was happier about Oregon State's win than these two.
  • 27 November 2011 Is this the final image of @mattbarkley at the Coliseum?
  • 17 December 2012 New Dwight Howard T-Shirts at LA Live.
  • 21 August 2012 So @MattBarkley is on the cover of SI and SI for Kids this week.
  • 27 November 2011 Marc Tyler wearing a championship shirt you won't likely see at the USC bookstore.
  • 26 December 2011 Um, are there any other options?
  • 27 November 2011 Matt Barkley and USC Trojans are wearing "USC Football 2011 South Division Champions" shirts.
  • 22 January 2012 Easily the worst turnout for a Clippers home game this season. #HighNoon #Raptors #ChampionshipSunday
  • 12 October 2011 Did you know when Roski introduced his Industry stadium plan in 2008, the press conference was at the Staples Center?
  • 07 March 2012 Motel 6 has to be the best Kiss Cam sponsor ever, right? #Pac12Tourney
  • 24 December 2011 Spending Christmas Eve with the Lakers.
  • 21 March 2012 Derek Fisher as an Oklahoma City Thunder.
Arash Markazi Snapshot
Arash Markazi is a columnist for ESPNLA.com and a regular contributor to ESPN Radio 710 in Los Angeles. He has covered everything from the Super Bowl and the NBA Finals to the World Cup and the Oscars.

Markazi, who was born in Oklahoma City and raised in Los Angeles, was a staff writer for Sports Illustrated for five years before joining ESPN to help launch ESPNLA.com in December 2009.

He has also written for Slam, King, Vibe and Playboy and is on the board of directors for the Jim Murray Memorial Foundation.

After graduating from Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, Calif. Markazi attended the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University and later the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. He wrote a regular column for the Daily Trojan and also had his work published in several magazines and newspapers while at USC, including the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Daily News. He graduated with a degree in Print Journalism from USC in 2004.

Markazi was hired by Sports Illustrated out of college and appeared on the cover of the March 31, 2005 issue of Sports Illustrated on Campus. He soon began writing a weekly column for Sports Illustrated's website, SI.com. Markazi's intimate and quirky portraits of Wayne Gretzky, Ronaldo, Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush caused the Los Angeles Times to name him one of the "Faces to Watch" in 2006.

He is a two-time cancer survivor and a cancer advocate. He is a Global Ambasador for Quest 40 Cure, which seeks to eradicate pediatric cancer and register new bone marrow donors.
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