Updates from July 5th, 2007

Garry Paskwietz of WeAreSC.com interviewed second-year Fullback Stanley Havili about a month into summer workouts. Havili commented that the freshman have been steady, the tempo has been fast, and that “Coach Carlisle’s workouts are killing us, man, so we get better.” Havili tells Paskwietz that he learned a lot from Brandon Hancock and Ryan Powdrell, […]

According to Scott Wolf,  Jordan Cameron, a 6-foot-5 tight end who played for  BYU last year and who recently accepted a scholarship offer from USC for the 2008 football season, has decided to attend Ventura College this year because several of his credits from religious courses taken at BYU did not transfer.  Wolf opines:
It’s probably better for Cameron because he will play […]

USC appears to be the easy choice for No. 1 in most every publication’s preseason poll, but the method of arriving at a given voter’s top 25 appears to vary greatly, from ranking teams based stricly on how talented they are at the moment, to ordering the schools based on their likelihood of playing for […]

Fred Lynn, winner of three College Baseball World Series titles with the Trojans (1971, 1972 and 1973), was inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame yesterday.  After graduating from USC, Lynn won Rookie of the Year and MVP honors with the Boston Red Sox in 1975, a first for that particular same-season double-honor.  Lynn became […]

Mark Saxon of the OC Register has a nice profile of Trojan freshman OJ Mayo. There’s not a whole lot of new information, but we learn what classes he’s been taking at USC over the summer (Geography and “Race, Class and Gender in American Film”) and, more importantly, that he is “changing the culture” of […]