Plenty of Pac-12 memories this year


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Well, it’s over. The Pac-12 football season came and went in a flurry of exhausting games, thrilling finishes and broken records. With only Friday’s conference championship left to play, a solid half of the Pac-12 can claim a spot in the College Football Playoff rankings, with three of those teams in the top-15. No. 2 […]

Helmets represent USC’s transition


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There was something different about the way the USC football team looked Saturday. The Trojans’ win last week was reminiscent of a very similar victory six weeks earlier, but with one key difference. On Oct. 18, the Trojans dominated a weak Colorado team in an afternoon game at the Coliseum, winning by a final score […]

Sports serve to connect the world


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It’s a crisp fall morning in Southern Californian suburbia, the kind where leaving the warmth of home makes my breath create wispy streams of condensation that trail me as I run to the end of our driveway, where the day’s copy of the Los Angeles Times sat in the same spot every morning for almost […]

Trojans need to address problems


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USC’s loss to the Bruins on Saturday exposed a lot of the team’s shortcomings, but there remain some more systemic flaws which have led to the Trojans’ poor performance later in games this season. The keys to a win over Notre Dame will lie in avoiding some major weaknesses in the Trojans’ game plan. 1. […]

UCLA loss is a wakeup call


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For the first time in my life on Saturday night, I lost faith in USC football. It happened with 14 seconds left in the first half, when UCLA quarterback Brett Hundley threw yet another wide open touchdown pass to receiver Eldridge Massington. For years, I have grown up with a steadfast belief in USC’s ability […]

USC must top UCLA to stay relevant


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I cringe every time I think about it, and at times it’s hard to believe, but over the past few months I’ve finally come to accept the following: I am a senior in college. As frightening as it might feel to be graduating in just seven months, there’s one thing that makes me feel extremely […]

Shaw can shore up USC’s defense


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For the better part of three months, I never thought senior cornerback Josh Shaw would return to the USC football team. Once Shaw revealed that he leapt from his own third-story balcony to evade police — and that those police officers were responding to a potential domestic violence incident — I thought he was done. […]

College GameDay goes old school


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It has absolutely nothing to do with the inaugural College Football Playoff. The last time either team claimed a national championship, Calvin Coolidge was president. It’s supposedly a rivalry game, but the favorite has won the last seven matchups and has home field advantage. The game won’t be broadcast on ESPN or any of the […]

Nothing wrong with USC loyalty


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As sports journalists, it is incumbent upon us to be impartial observers, to be conveyors of information without bias. But this is a column by an editor of the Daily Trojan, and it’s Conquest Week. So I’m going to be almost as unbiased as Lou Holtz talking about Everett Golson’s Heisman Trophy candidacy. I wish […]