Agholor could be USC’s best player


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What about Nelson Agholor? The response struck me as odd, definitely more so than it should have. I was in the middle of a text exchange with my friend Matt, and the topic had shifted to Trojan football. Matt — a rabid Cal fan — asked me who I thought was USC’s best football player, […]

Women of Troy revel in upset role


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Eleven minutes. That’s how close the women’s soccer team was to pulling off a minor miracle last Friday night. The Women of Troy were facing off against crosstown rival UCLA and came into the match as heavy underdogs. USC is a relatively young team with a first-year head coach in Keidane McAlpine, and the Bruins […]

Orgeron still has a place at USC


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Ed Orgeron wants to come back. After spending what felt like an eternity off the grid with his family in his Mandeville, Louisiana, home, the former interim head coach of USC football expressed to Bill Plaschke of the L.A. Times that he was open to the prospect of rejoining the Trojan family. In a column […]

Lack of attention should help USC


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The USC football team’s bye week came at the perfect time in the calendar, as Saturday marked the second year of the Andy Enfield era, kicking off with an exhibition game against Cal State Los Angeles. With all the buzz and hype surrounding the football team, it’s sometimes easy to forget that the Trojans have […]

Female analysis neglected in sports


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I don’t really know what to do with myself without a USC football game this weekend. And for a while, I really didn’t know what to write about, especially since I already used up my “Since there’s no football this weekend, you should support your other Trojan teams” column back in September. (While we’re on […]

Friday’s match is worth your time


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This Friday night, the USC women’s soccer team hosts archrival UCLA at the Coliseum. I will be there. Not because I have to cover the game — our excellent beat writers Ben Albert and Paolo Uggetti can take care of that. Not because our football team is in the middle of another long, boring bye […]

CFP poll should add BCS touch


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The big news around the country this week has been surrounding the midterm elections. But the poll I was most interested in seeing Tuesday wasn’t any Gallup poll, expected voter poll or exit poll. It was the College Football Playoff’s Week 11 poll. The College Football Playoff system replaced the Bowl Championship Series this year […]

Rugby alive and well at USC


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Photos by Mariya Dondonyan. There are few sports more commonly misunderstood by Americans than rugby. Like cricket, Formula One racing and, to a lesser degree, tennis, rugby has escaped the perennial American spotlight perhaps because it lacks the intrinsic “American” qualities invoked by games invented by Americans themselves: football, baseball and basketball. But football as […]

WSU win showed Trojans’ character


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There is nothing quite like a trip to Pullman, Washington to remind you of the stuff that makes college football special. Sometimes, all it takes is a visit to the most remote locale in the Pac-12 to rediscover the real spirit of the game. USC’s matchup against Washington State on Saturday wasn’t anything spectacular. The […]

USC gets into the holiday spirit


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On Wednesday I headed out to USC football practice and asked a few players about their favorite Halloween traditions. I originally wanted to ask them what they were going to dress up as for Halloween, but I realized that they’d be on the road for their matchup at Washington State this Saturday, so they’re unable […]