Sarkisian employs Carroll’s leadership


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The Trojans will kick off Spring Camp next week with new head coach Steve Sarkisian at the helm, and the new head coach of USC football is already implementing sweeping changes to former head coach Lane Kiffin’s formula. Greg Katz of ESPN spoke on some of these changes in an article published online on March […]

The Galen Center has had its moments


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Saturday marked the final home game of the 2013-14 season for the USC men’s basketball team, and with it the final home game I (and every other soon-to-be-graduate) will ever attend as a student. I must say, it’s been quite a ride. This is my third and final year at USC (I transferred in after […]

Trojan basketball lacks drive to succeed


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It makes sense that on the rainiest weekend in my nearly three years at USC, the mood of the USC men’s basketball team could be described as dour. After a Thursday night loss to Oregon State, the Trojans vowed to go out Saturday afternoon and win the final home game of five seniors’ college careers. […]

Women’s basketball sees few changes


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Someone once told me that time is a flat circle — that everything we’ve ever done or will do, we’re doomed to repeat over and over again. Okay, admittedly, that pseudo-philosophy didn’t come from the sanest of sources — a suspected murderer on HBO’s excellent new crime thriller True Detective said it — but fans […]

Trojans’ hot start should continue


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With all of the hype surrounding USC baseball’s hot start to the 2014 season — wait, what? Hype surrounding USC baseball? The team that’s had a .470 winning percentage in the last decade (and .407 in the last three years)? Yes, as has been seemingly well-documented, the USC baseball team is off to a thrilling […]

USC’s NFL hopefuls will find success


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Rating the NFL Draft Combine prospects for the USC Trojans is a risky exercise — heck, rating the prospects of any draft hopeful is mired in speculation. But one can’t help but wonder how a certain player might perform at the next level. The Trojans have seen their share of NFL successes (Troy Polamalu, Brian […]

Now is the time for Trojan baseball


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Throughout his truly remarkable and incomparable coaching career, legendary USC baseball coach Rod Dedeaux amassed more than 1,300 wins and brought home 11 national championships, figures that led to him being named the Coach of the 20th Century by Baseball America in 1999. Dedeaux coached dozens of future Major Leaguers, and the Trojans’ baseball program, […]

Empty seats sign of a larger trend


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There is a very famous scene in the beginning of the movie Field of Dreams, when a mystical voice tells the main character, played by Kevin Costner, “If you build it, he will come.” Since the iconic sports film’s release in 1989, the quote has often been misattributed as, “If you build it, they will […]

Athletes’ legacies difficult to compare


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Following NBA All-Star Weekend, there has been a lot of discussion regarding the NBA’s “Mount Rushmore,” as superstars and future Hall of Famers LeBron James and Kobe Bryant both revealed their own preference for which NBA legends would adorn the fictitious mountain honoring the league’s history. LeBron and Kobe agreed on three that seemed to […]

Trojan athletic programs are in flux


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USC is entering a seminal period in its athletic history. That statement might sound like hyperbole. And I admit I have a tendency to be hyperbolic. But it is true. The next five years will tell us a lot about the USC athletic program. Consider this: In the 2013 calendar year, six of USC’s 19 […]