Swanson: USC student-superfan Crash ‘CrashLit’ Collier brings the energy

LOS ANGELES — Only natural. You see yellow caution tape and you want to know: What’s going on over there?

Especially when you see a couple dozen adults wearing it around their heads.

And I get paid to be nosy, so when I saw a bunch of people sporting strips of bright yellow plastic as headwear at the old Dedeaux Field that evening in May 2023, I asked one of them: “What’s going on with, you know, the caution tape?”

The gentleman I asked – he had to have been a parent of a USC baseball player...