USC defense must blend old with new


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Every year, across the country, the same thing happens: Schools hire a new head football coach or new assistants. Once spring practice starts, the new schemes and playbooks that each new coach brings are proclaimed to be so much better than those that came before. Sure enough, early returns on new USC Defensive Coordinator Clancy […]

Trojans begin Pac-12 play against Oregon


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If ever the Trojans needed home-field advantage, now is the time. USC baseball has dropped six of its last seven games (with its most recent against Pepperdine Tuesday) and has dipped to two games below .500 at 7-9. Tuesday’s game against the Waves was supposed to offer a battle-worn Trojan team a brief respite from […]

Men’s basketball won’t make noise in tourney


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The Pac-12 tournament is here. For USC and a handful of other teams, it represents a last-ditch effort at a Cinderella run to March Madness. For the five squads currently in position to make the NCAA tournament — the Arizona Wildcats, UCLA Bruins, Cal Golden Bears, Colorado Buffaloes and Oregon Ducks — it’s basically bracket […]

USC’s shoddy pitching leads to defeat against Pepperdine


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The numbers are disturbing, to say the least. In USC’s last six games heading into its matchup Tuesday night with Pepperdine, the Trojan pitching staff had amassed an abysmal 6.12 ERA. Make that a 6.41 ERA in their last seven games. USC suffered another bullpen implosion Tuesday evening against Pepperdine, surrendering eight runs out of […]