Despite recent success, Trojan Basketball lacks answers


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The USC men’s basketball team has enjoyed a fairly exciting run over the last five years. Outside of the 2009-2010 season, in which the team faced postseason ineligibility, the Trojans have managed to muscle their way to a berth in the NCAA tournament every season — and a spot in the Pac-10 title game three […]

Men’s water polo team continues USC’s winning tradition


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When goalkeeper Joel Dennerley left the pool after defeating UCLA 7-4 on Sunday Dec. 4, 2011, he could call himself a national champion — four times over. Four national championships in four years. Unheard of. In the grand scheme of college athletics, the Trojans’ four-peat is truly historic. There are few runs in college sports […]

Breaking the SEC color barrier


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History lessons have a way of awakening the details that get lost in the depths of sports fans’ memories. For instance, if you watched Alabama’s 21-0 drubbing of rival LSU in last week’s BCS National Championship Game, you should have felt a connection to the cardinal and gold. No, junior quarterback Matt Barkley wasn’t slinging […]

Women of Troy fighting setbacks


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It happened almost in an instant. A promising career derailed yet again by another injury.  Senior guard Jacki Gemelos tore  her anterior cruciate ligament against Texas A&M back in mid-December. Another season lost, another surgery and another year of rehab. This was supposed to be the year the USC women’s basketball team took the next […]

Monte Kiffin and young USC defense hit stride in 2011


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As the sixth-ranked USC Trojans enter the offseason, players, coaches and fans have a lot of things to remember from the 2011 season. Junior quarterback Matt Barkley threw a conference-record 39 touchdown passes, sophomore receiver Robert Woods and freshman receiver Marqise Lee totaled more than 1,000 yards receiving and, best of all, the Trojans went […]

Steve Johnson looks to cement fourth straight NCAA title


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Even though we are just a few weeks into the new year, it’s hard not to be intrigued by what lies ahead for the USC athletic program over the course of the next 300-plus days. 2012 unequivocally has the potential to be the greatest chapter in the tradition-steeped annals of USC athletics. There’s the men’s […]

Kiffin dynasty in full effect for 2012


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On Jan.12, 2010, USC announced Lane Kiffin as the head coach of the USC football program. The decision left some scratching their heads. Sure, Kiffin had previously been involved with the football team serving under then-head coach Pete Carroll. Most Trojan fans, however, questioned Kiffin’s ability to handle a top football program like USC. After […]

‘Perfect Trojan’ label not farfetched for Barkley


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Plenty of adjectives describe USC junior quarterback Matt Barkley. Following a season in which he threw for 3,528 yards, along with 39 touchdown passes, the third-year signal caller has received his fair share of praise over the last month. But on Thursday, as Barkley announced he would return to school for his senior season – […]

Barkley owes it to USC to stay


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USC junior quarterback Matt Barkley will no doubt have plenty of people in his ear over the next several weeks until the deadline to declare for the 2012 NFL draft comes in early January. Go for the money, they’ll say. Stay for the pride. Go to fulfill your dream of playing at the highest level. […]

Kiffin finds his stride in second year at USC


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You could first see it in the press room following USC’s 31-17 win over Notre Dame in October. It was there again on the field after the Trojans’ 38-35 upset of Oregon in Eugene.  It was as wide as ever when USC led UCLA by 50 late in the fourth quarter on Saturday: it being […]