NCAA’s Oregon ruling will fall short


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In all honesty, I shouldn’t have been so surprised. Like many USC fans, I always keep an eye out for any schools that become subject to investigation by the NCAA and its Committee on Infractions. Naturally, as some of the NCAA’s most spurned victims, Trojan fans can’t help but become intrigued when other schools become […]

Country grieves after bombings in Boston


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Last weekend I wandered into The Artform Studio in the Downtown Arts District. It doubles as a record store and a place to get a haircut, which sounds like a strange combination, but it works. As Stevie Wonder belted out “Do I Do” on an old-school cassette player, I explored every inch of the studio’s […]

Women’s hoops begins a new era


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The line of reasoning for hiring Cynthia Cooper-Dyke as USC’s next women’s basketball coach is pretty simple. She’s an alumna and a “USC basketball icon,” as Athletic Director Pat Haden put it last Thursday when the hire was announced. That is, of course, true. If there was a Mount Rushmore for USC women’s basketball, Cooper-Dyke’s […]