Podcast: Checking in with women’s soccer


Assistant sports editor Kenny Legan sits down with USC women's soccer player Ashley Freyer to talk about the season so far and to preview upcoming Coliseum matchup between the Women of Troy and the UCLA Bruins.

Check mate


Jack Peters (left), an international chess master and USC professor, plays Henry Kaliwae, a USC alumnus. Peters is teaches a class on chess and critical thinking class at USC and is a Los Angeles Times columnist.

New USC fraternity joins IFC


Phi Sigma Kappa began at USC more than 80 years ago but was forced to leave IFC in 2003.

California budget woes hurt athletics


Everyone knows it. The state of California is a mess. Voters can’t decide if they want to legalize same-sex marriage, pot or both; the only news I hear about Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown comes from slanderous negative advertisements; and it has rained for the last week. I forget what the sun looks like. Oh […]