Updates from June, 2007

Highly-recruited Class of 2006 linebacker Josh Tatum, who did not play for the Trojans during his freshman season last year, is transferring out of USC according to Scott Wolf, Rivals’ Gerard Martinez, and other unofficial sources. He is also unlisted in USC’s 2007 Media Guide, which seems like official confirmation to us. Both Wolf and […]

Scott Wolf is reporting that redshirt junior DE Gerald Washington, who sat out all of last season (his first at USC after transferring from a JC) with an injured knee, may miss the upcoming season as well as a result of the same injury. Although recruited as a tight end, he was projected to backup […]

Rivals is running a nice article on recent Trojan commit Tyron Smith, a 5-star, 6′6″, 265lb offensive lineman from Moreno Valley. While that’s on the smallish side for a lineman, the kid is only 16 years old (although, as Rivals points out, you’d never guess it by looking at him).  Here’s what one Nike Camp […]

The Washington Wizards have posted audio of their press conference announcing their selection of Nick Young in Thursday’s draft:

Nick Young Press Conference (MP3, NBA.com)
In the lengthy video clip below from Wizards Magazine (which is excerpted from the press conference above), Washington GM Ernie Grunfeld discusses Young. He says that the team was “fortunate to have […]

The LA Times wraps up its NBA draft coverage by looking for next year’s Greg Oden and Kevin Durant (i.e., one-and-done superstars-in-the-making). And they find them in their own backyard: UCLA’s Kevin Love and USC’s own O.J. Mayo. (As if that’s a surprise.)
UCLA, USC could be next on roller coaster (LA Times)

We have posted USC’s tentative 2007-08 men’s basketball schedule. Among the preseason games of interest are post-Thanksgiving home contests against Oklahoma and Kansas, a December matchup against Memphis at Madison Square Garden in New York, and the four-day Anaheim Classic tournament at the Honda Center.
2007-08 Tentative USC Basketball Schedule
The Pac-10 has also published its 2007-08 […]

The Los Angeles Times has a short profile of RHP Ian Kennedy, who was drafted out of USC by the New York Yankees in 2006 and who was recently elevated to the Yanks’ AA affiliate in Trenton, NJ. In AA and A combined this year, Kennedy has an impressive 1.72 ERA and 102 strikeouts.
Kennedy is […]

As expected, early entrants Nick Young and Gabe Pruitt were selected in Thursday’s NBA draft, although each went later than they hoped–or were predicted to go. Graduating Trojan senior Lodrick Stewart was not drafted. Below, we roundup some of the many articles covering the draft.
Both Players:
USC Juniors Young And Pruitt Selected In The 2007 […]

USC PG Gabe Pruitt fell out of the first round of the 2007 NBA Draft on Thursday when he was selected a disappointing 32nd overall by the woeful Boston Celtics. Earlier, his teammate Nick Young was drafted in the first round by Washington, but he too went lower than predicted. Crosstown rival G Arron Afflalo […]

Although he was widely expected to go three picks earlier (to the New Orleans Hornets), former Trojan swingman Nick Young was selected 16th overall by the Washington Wizards in the 2007 NBA Draft. He was passed over by his hometown L.A. Clippers, who instead picked Florida State’s Al Thornton at 14.
Still awaiting their fates are […]