Category: Sport
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Tensions are high heading into this week’s BIG game. Yes, the No.7 Cal will be the biggest challenge that USC has faced all season. Yes, revenge for last year’s perfect-season-spoiling upset in Berkeley is a must. Fortunately Trojan fans can rest a little easier, knowing that the big guy on the D line is ready…
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From USC athletic office: “ESPN Gameday will be at our game this Saturday vs. California. This is the production that includes Chris Fowler, Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit. They will tape a segment at 7:00am for Sportscenter and then will go live with their pre-game show from 7:30-9:00am. The stage will be at Christmas Tree…
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Looks like Cal fans have already starting smoking their pregame doobies….just check out this student-newspaper comparison of the Trojans to the ’91 Washington Huskies team, the last team Golden Bears played while ranked at #7: The
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Polamalu made a spectacular fourth-quarter interception return Sunday (Oct 4th) against Cincinnati in evading six would-be tacklers and showed why his teammates refer to him as “Tasmanian Devil”, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. “Just watch him on film,” said Chris Hope, his partner at safety. “Wild … wide open … giving 100 percent … twirling his…
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Sounds like there will be a few people in the Figueroa/Exposition area of Los Angeles on Saturday, October 9–all 92,000 seats in the Coliseum have been sold for USC’s game against the 10th-ranked Cal Bears. This is the first Coliseum sellout in the Trojans-Golden Bears series since 1930. It will be Troy’s largest crowd to…
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No surprise here–according to early chatter, Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush are both at the top of the Heisman Trophy running. One weekly poll by the Rocky Mountain News puts Leinart at #1, and Bush at #5, with Jason White of Oklahoma, bunch Orton of Purdue, and Cedric Benson of Texas sandwiched in between. Could…
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I know, some of you are asking yourself “didn’t John Robinson hang it up after Mike Garrett fired him via voicemail?” But, in fact, Robinson has been coaching at UNLV for the past few seasons. But, after an 0-4 start, and with health problems to deal with, Robinson announced on Monday that this would be…
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The TrojanWire was on-field for the Trojans come-from-behind victory over Stanford. After an 82-yard rushing touchdown to end the first half–putting the Cardinal up 28-17, Carroll and company’s defensive adjustments dominated their opponent–holding the Stanford Cardinal to just 36 total yards and 0 points in the second half. Here is a good article from <a…
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The SColiseum is officially and temporarily under “re-construction” since we received a cease & desist notice from the firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, representing the University of Southern California (“USC”). It has come to our attention that your site is once again selling USC-related merchandise without USC’s authorization. In this instance, in violation of…
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According to the Daily Trojan, Southern Cal is pumping up the volume to get ready for Sunday: coaches coordinated with the USC Instructional Media Services to set up speakers that projected mock-crowd noise [from The Daily Trojan]
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Coach Pete Carroll, talking to CNNSI’s Kelley King about why the Trojans have been so successful during his tenure: “Turnover margin has been our No. 1 emphasis since I’ve been at USC,” said Pete Carroll, whose team has posted a nation’s-best plus-1.33 turnover margin — and, not coincidentally, two Pac-10 titles and one AP national…
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