Mays’ shift to NFL a difficult proposition


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Congratulations on a stellar four-year career with USC, Taylor Mays. Now go ahead and play the opposite of your trademark style. That’s essentially the message that the Trojans’ star safety has been receiving this week as he practices for Saturday’s Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala. Even though it’s difficult to glean too much from an […]

Johnson’s return to the field remarkable


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The day that nobody thought would come is upon us. Well, almost nobody. “The day I had a doubt would have been the day I failed as a person,”  former USC running back Stafon Johnson told the Press-Register in Mobile, Ala. last week. “I knew I’d be back.” For the first time since carrying a […]

A weekend of promise for the Trojan faithful


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Trojans fans had a lot to be excited about Saturday. The USC women’s basketball team pulled off its fourth straight comeback win, defeating Washington State 61-51 on the road. The victory gave the Women of Troy their best start in Pac-10 play (6-1) since the 2004-05 season. Also, the No. 1 USC men’s tennis team […]

The evolution of an alley-oop dunk


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Now that was a little bit ridiculous. With six minutes left in Saturday’s game against Washington, USC had a comfortable lead and total control of the game. The score was 69-48, a few fans were starting to pile out of the Galen Center and an impressive win was seemingly on the way for USC. Then […]

Cooper shows fire in torrid remarks


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Well, that’s one way to put it. After the USC women’s basketball team beat UCLA 70-63 on Sunday, coach Michael Cooper opened the postgame news conference by saying, “My opening statement is, f— UCLA.” Cooper went on to say many more words after that, but — not surprisingly — none seemed to have the same […]

Cougars’ Thompson: the one that got away


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Seldom are there opportunities for do-overs in sports. But I would bet that USC wishes it had another chance to recruit Klay Thompson. Thompson now stars as a guard for Washington State, an off-the-map destination for what might be one of the Pac-10’s best players. The sweet-shooting sophomore has emerged as one of the country’s […]

Power shift goes unnoticed in rivalry


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It sounds like a mad lib. The upstart (adjective) USC men’s basketball team (typically inferior proper noun) walloped the miserable (depressing adjective) UCLA men’s basketball team (proper noun synonymous with Goliath) Saturday at Pauley Pavilion (above noun’s preferred location) by 21 (ridiculously large number) points. Except this isn’t a mad lib. This is real. Yet, […]

Kiffin hire exactly the move Trojans needed


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The most shocking part of USC’s decision to hire Lane Kiffin as its next football coach is the level of shock exhibited by everyone else. It seemed as if the whole college football world — fans, media members and other coaches — recoiled in horror as the news broke. But there was at least one […]

Kiffin and USC a shocking mixture


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I can only hope that, somewhere in America, a student being asked to explain an explosive chemical reaction on a test is writing “Lane Kiffin plus USC” as the answer. Any open-minded teacher would grant at least partial credit. If USC meant to grab national attention with its newest head coaching hire, consider it a […]