Dan Weber, Riverside P-E

How hard can it be to pick the nation’s top group of linebackers? Try counting to three, as most of the preseason pundits have done, and you come up with USC’s Keith Rivers, Rey Maualuga and Brian Cushing. Rivers already is one of the nation’s best going into his senior season, while the 250-pound juniors, the hard-hitting Maualuga in the middle and ball-hawking Cushing on the outside, appear ready to join the elite… continue