USC fires football coach Steve Sarkisian after he reportedly showed up to practice intoxicated

The University of Southern California fired football coach Steve Sarkisian Monday, one day after he reportedly showed up to practice intoxicated, the school announced.

Sarkisian's behavior had been on USC's radar since August, when he slurred his words and added an expletive to the team's fight song at a pre-season event. A Los Angeles Times report described Sarkisian's alcohol use as extending far beyond his most recent stint at USC, according to former players and staff at the University of Washington, where he last coached, as well as 800 pages of documents the paper obtained.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.