Updates from June 30th, 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)