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Courtside: The Trojans need to help Reggie help them right back

By NATHAN ACKERMAN
June 16, 2020 in Columns, Sports

If USC football wants to return to the elite status many Trojan fans are accustomed to, it should allow Bush to become one of the most impactful recruiters the school, conference and country have ever seen.

Portrayals of sports riots, current protests sharply differ

By AMANDA STURGES AND PRATIK THAKUR
June 9, 2020 in Sports

On the morning of Super Bowl LII, the city of Philadelphia took to the streets in anticipation of celebrating who would become the 2018 NFL champion Eagles. It wasn’t the typical procedure of putting up barricades or cleaning the streets for fans — city employees coated light poles with hydraulic fluid to prevent celebrators from […]

USC Athletics dismisses booster over racist tweets

By NATHAN ACKERMAN
June 3, 2020 in Featured, Sports, Sticky

The athletic department moved swiftly to revoke the booster’s membership.

Courtside: We can learn from Curt Flood in more ways than one

By NATHAN ACKERMAN
June 3, 2020 in Columns, Sports

Flood’s resistance to a 1969 trade is rooted in two realities that still pervade today: exploitation in baseball and racism in the United States.

Former football player wins wrongful expulsion lawsuit

By SHAYLEE NAVARRO AND RAYMOND RAPADA
May 28, 2020 in Featured, News, Sports

Former kicker Matthew Boermeester was expelled from USC after a 2017 Title IX investigation from the University found that he assaulted his girlfriend.

The State of Play: American society should not strive to be just like Mike

By STUART CARSON
May 26, 2020 in Columns, Sports

If America embraced the Michael Jordan that is presented in "The Last Dance," our society would be in shambles.

USC locks down several notable recruiting classes for 2020

By SPENCER KELLEY AND LAUREN MATTICE
May 26, 2020 in Sports

An impressive recruiting cycle has seen the Trojans sign some key prospects.

Quarantine brings new challenges to athletics community

By DAVID RAMIREZ
May 19, 2020 in Sports, Volleyball

Players, department officials and reporters alike have had to find new ways to operate.

Courtside: Newest proposal is the wrong answer to NFL’s diversity problem

By NATHAN ACKERMAN
May 19, 2020 in Columns, Sports

A system in which people of color are treated as tokens is absolutely the wrong way to go about increasing diversity.