The injuries just keep adding up for Trojans


Sports are very unpredictable. Just ask a Vegas bookie about USC’s home loss to Stanford in 2007. Or about the likelihood of Notre Dame’s fourth quarter near-comeback against the Trojans three weeks ago. Or even about the chance that a home underdog would beat the then-No. 5 team in the nation by 27 points. But […]

A break-up letter from the Pac-10 to USC


It’s not you, it’s me. All right, that’s not true — it is you. But breaking up is hard to do, and I’m new at this. We’ve been inseparable for what seems like forever. Whenever somebody mentioned “Pac-10,” they couldn’t help but bring up “USC.” As a perennial champion, you gave meaning to me as […]

USC can’t make any excuses this time


Autzen Stadium was as loud as it was cracked up to be, but the loss wasn’t about the noise. The Trojans were flagged six times for false start, but it wasn’t about the penalties. And USC had just as many takeaways as Oregon, but it wasn’t about the turnovers either. For the first time since […]