Coach Carroll pranked some of his players by putting a fake snake in a Gatorade cooler. Hilarity ensues.
Read moreTrojan DePo: The Tao of Pete
TrojanWire’s Devon Pollard poses with Seattle head coach Pete Carroll following ESPN’s Lunch with a Legend radio broadcast at Morton’s the Steakhouse in Santa Ana. Reggie Bush aside, Pete Carroll stands as one of the most polarizing figures among the USC population. To many, he’s like the dad that ran out on the family just […]
Read morePete Tears NCAA a New One
Suck it NCAA. Pete Carroll returns to L.A. – and rips NCAA [ocregister]
Read moreCarroll Defends Southern California
Days after the N.C.A.A. trampled his former Southern California Trojans, coach Pete Carroll’s mindset remains the same from afar.
Read moreUSC’s Taylor Mays: Pete Carroll to blame for draft free fall
Taylor Mays vented that former USC coach Pete Carroll didn’t prepare him to be drafted in the first round.
Read moreCal’s Alualu surprise 10th pick in NFL draft
Here’s a prediction: California defensive end Tyson Alualu is going to surprise some folks and end up a top-10 NFL draft pick. Little late on that one, eh? Alualu was the first Pac-10 player drafted Thursday night — which was projected by no one — going 10th overall to the Jacksonville Jaguars, while Bears teammate Jahvid Best was the […]
Read moreSeahawks Giving Former No. 1 Picks Second Shots
RENTON, Wash. (AP) — New Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll is giving a couple of former first-round draft picks another chance to restart their careers.
Read moreUSC football: Pete Carroll talks NCAA hearings
Former USC football coach Pete Carroll was back in L.A. this weekend, and he spoke to ESPNLosAngeles.com about his former employer’s recent meeting with the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions. Perhaps the most interesting revelation was this: Carroll said he was glad he attended “because there was some stuff nobody else could have answered and nobody […]
Read moreTaylor Mays says taste for the knockout was just following orders
For most of his career at USC, safety Taylor Mays was known for his freakish combination of linebacker size and cornerback speed, which made him a fixture in the Trojan secondary almost from day one in 2006. Over the last couple years, though, his name has increasingly brought to mind, well, opposing receivers getting knocked […]
Read moreUSC now in for day two with NCAA infractions committee
TEMPE, Ariz. — USC’s hearing in front of the NCAA infractions committee got started at 8:30 a.m. local time. Trojans running backs coach Todd McNair joined the meeting, so the focus still may be on football. I didn’t see former Trojans basketball coach Tim Floyd but he is apparently going to be present at some point. Unless he changed his […]
Read moreA new front-runner leads the Pac-10 into spring
Spring is often cited as a time of renewal, and in recent years that has held true in Pac-10 football. USC would renew its lease atop the conference annually, no matter who had bolted for NFL riches. <!–photo1–>But this spring a different bird is chirping. It’s a Duck, er, quacking. After seven seasons of USC […]
Read moreTempe Witnesses
Former USC coach Pete Carroll is at today’s NCAA hearing in Tempe. So far, former basketball coach Tim Floyd has not appeared. New coach Lane Kiffin is also in attendance. So is running backs coach Todd McNair, the subject of speculation that he might have some knowledge of Reggie Bush’s relationship with would-be sports marketers.
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