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USC trails in mtvU’s first ‘Student Bodies’ episode


In mtvU’s newest season of Student Bodies, a team of two from USC faces a team from UCLA in various fitness-oriented challenges. The winner of the competiton will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to MTV’s Spring Break in Las Vegas, as well as a yearlong bottomless supply of Gatorade G-Series products. This week’s episode, a seven-minute […]

Stat to watch: Turnover margin


With USC playing countless close games in the past three seasons, turnover margin has become an important statistic to monitor. On the one hand, each turnover created presents USC’s offense with a shorter field to work with. On the other hand, turning the ball stalls drives and hands momentum to the opponent. In the previous […]

UCs and USC must collaborate


The phrases “Beat UCLA” and the more fiery “FUCLA” are commonplace Trojan-pride slogans that pit USC against the school across town. But beneath the rivalrous repartee between the two universities are serious issues in California’s higher education system brought to light by the current crisis in the UC system that even USC students not directly […]