With the midpoint of the season in the rearview mirror, college football award speculation is in full swing. Let the complaining begin. Monday’s announcement of the semifinalists for the Davey O’Brien Award for quarterbacks drew a few surprised looks when USC’s Matt Barkley made the cut. For all of his accomplishments, Barkley has the fewest [...]
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Bradford is fulfilling his promise
Allen Bradford was ready to quit. The bruising redshirt junior USC running back admits he considered transferring multiple times when it seemed he wasn’t working his way into the rotation. But the words of his father, Keith, always stayed with him. “My dad told me, ‘Life’s gonna get hard — you can’t run from it,’” [...]
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Allen Bradford was ready to quit. The bruising redshirt junior USC running back admits he considered transferring multiple times when it seemed he wasn’t working his way into the rotation. But the words of his father, Keith, always stayed with him. “My dad told me, ‘Life’s gonna get hard — you can’t run from it,’” [...]
Read the rest of this article »A midseason recap for visiting parents
There are some people who enjoy Swiss cheese, and some who don’t. There are some people who track tornadoes, and some who don’t. There are some people who understand Russian, and some who don’t. Parents from all walks of life will descend on the USC campus this weekend. After all, the university expects this to [...]
Read the rest of this article »Trojans can’t let Rodgers brothers break out
Golden Tate was pretty good this past Saturday, but wait until you see what the other guys can do. The Notre Dame junior receiver took a USC defense that had barely bent all season — and was almost never broken — and, well, broke it a bit. He had eight catches for 117 yards and [...]
Read the rest of this article »ND is all it’s hyped up to be and more
I swear it was a scene out of a movie. South Bend, Ind. Population 108,000. Getting off the freeway in South Bend, you enter this fantasy world where everything revolves around college football. Now, I knew Notre Dame was supposed to be one of the best places to visit in college football and, by all [...]
Read the rest of this article »The BCS gives USC an uphill climb
With the release of the first Bowl Championship Series standings, every contender in college football is plotting the complex path it would take to get to the championship game. And the world keeps spinning. The October release is like clockwork; a whole bunch of numbers that mean nothing to the average college football fan is [...]
Read the rest of this article »Defense shows it can be clutch too
USC’s offense had its signature win against Ohio State. The Trojans on defense now have theirs.
Read the rest of this article »The time has come, Lou Holtz must go
I live for college football Saturdays. It’s during those 14 Saturdays, when the 90-degree heat gives way to the 30-degree snow (at least in my hometown of Chicago), that life is as beautiful as the Italian opera singers in The Shawshank Redemption. Like the prisoners, I stop and soak it all in. But there is [...]
Read the rest of this article »The hype bubble has burst on Aaron Corp
This weekend’s match up between No. 6 USC and No. 25 Notre Dame always has a lot of hype to it, and it should. The game is a battle between two schools with arguably the country’s most prestigious college football histories. Each program has racked up 11 national championships, and both have had incredible players [...]
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