Tag: USC
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U.S. News & World Report publishes 2011 College Rankings In case you’re scoring at home, that would be the University of Southern California at #23 moving ahead of the University of California-Los Angeles (hey, at least you guys still have Neuheisel!), and just one slot behind UC-Berkeley (a gap that’s almost certain to be closed…
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Even though tackling is barred to avoid injuries, USC quarterbacks have four passes intercepted, raising new questions about the Trojans offense with season opener at Hawaii less than two weeks away.USC Coach Lane Kiffin hoped to have some answers Saturday after the Trojans scrimmaged for the final time before their Sept. 2 opener at Hawaii.…
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The Trojans are on NCAA probation and ineligible for bowl games and the BCS national title. But the Associated Press won’t exclude them from its rankings, and if they go 13-0, and several other factors break just right, they could be crowned champions by AP.After weeks of bad news, asterisks, sanctions, appeals, record-expunging and acts…
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Allen Bradford suffers an apparent knee bruise and joins fellow senior C.J. Gable (hamstring and shin soreness) on the sidelines one day before a limited-contact scrimmage.USC goes into survival mode Saturday, Coach Lane Kiffin hoping his team can get through a limited-contact scrimmage without major injury in the final workout before classes begin. [L.A. Times]
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McKay, quarterback Haden’s favorite receiver when they played for the Trojans in the 1970s, now is new athletic director Haden’s point man overseeing a troubled football program. The dynamic hasn’t changed much, and their close friendship has only grown stronger.J.K. McKay says he is not George Orwell, this is not 1984, and he is not…
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Stafon Johnson was on the Petros and Money show yesterday to talk about his season ending injury.
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It was the comeback story of the decade: Stafon Johnson fought back from the brink of death, willing himself against all odds, all the way to a pro-career with the Tennessee Titans. Well Johnson’s career took another set back tonight, in the third quarter of the preseason opener against Pete Carroll’s Seattle Seahawks. Johnson had…
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(Photo by Icon Sports Media) ESPN’s Rick Reilly recently wrote an article in an attempt to defend Lane Kiffin from all the bad press he has received the past few years. This is what Reilly wrote about the Titans’ lawsuit against Kiffin: The lawsuit is phonier than Tori Spelling, of course. Pola, who played at…
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More photos » Mark J. Terrill – AP Browse more photos » Catching up on a few things from yesterday and from over the weekend… USC Bill Dwyer of The LAT thinks Pete Carroll could have stayed and helped USC through the aftermath of the NCAA’s bombing of USC. Dwyer misses it…Pete Carroll was gone going back…
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Esteemed alumni are getting tours. And students are already using it. Formerly “Commons” and the Norman Topping Student Center, Ron Tutor pledged the lead gift to construct and get his name on this magnificent $150 million Campus Center. The USC graduate and Trustee made his fortune in construction, doing the SF Int’l Airport Expansion and…
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