Lil Romeo to Play for USC?

Rumor has it that the rapper known as Lil Romeo has declared that he is going to play basketball at USC, the Pac-10 school that surprised a few hoops critics with their performance in the 2007 NCAA Basketball Tournament. Lil Romeo, otherwise known as Romeo Miller, is in fact still a junior, and according to official sources with the Trojans, has not yet filed a letter of intent.

Miller actually prefers to go by simply Romeo now, dropping the “Lil” along with fellow rapper/actor Bow Wow, with whom he is said to have an ongoing music feud. According to Romeo’s Wikipedia page, Romeo is “a talented basktball player.” If fact, he was recently invited to a nationally renowned youth basketball camp called ABCD. He is 6′1” and plays point guard for Beverly Hills High School (90210). Romeo’s father, the music mogul Master P, tried out for two NBA teams in his younger days.

Who knows if this is true or not. I’ve never seen Romeo play basketball, but he is probably pretty good if he has already verbally committed to playing at USC his with a year to go in high school. Having a celebrity’s kid on your team can be great for sports commentators, who are likely to use such a fact as the basis for the entire length of the game, ala Strawberry’s boy from Maryland, and the Satan-Medussa offspring Noah from Florida.

If you like your college hoops with famous people’s sons, then get your NCAA basketball tickets at StubHub.com, your source for tickets to inherited celebrity.

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