Updates from August 13th, 2007

Word comes out of the Trojan camp today that second-string QB Mark Sanchez has a hairline fracture in his right thumb (that’s on his throwing hand) and will miss the next 3-4 weeks. Mike McDonald moves up officially to become John David Booty’s backup, for now, although freshman Aaron Corp got a lot of extra […]

ESPN.com dedicates its “Shoot Around” column today entirely to Pac-10 men’s basketball. Commentator Doug Gottlieb calls the conference “the best league by a sizable margin.” Of USC, columnist Ed Graney notes that “the Trojans’ postseason dreams just might depend on how improved [Taj] Gibson is from averaging 12.2 points and 8.7 rebounds last year.”
Pac-10: Big […]

Jill Painter of the LA Daily News accompanied the Trojans to the AVP Beach Volleyball Tournament in Manhattan Beach this morning.  A wise move before the team’s first formal scrimmage later Sunday evening?  Pete Carroll thinks so: it’s about dealing with distractions, and the players seem to get it.
For USC coach Carroll, coaching is part […]

Samuel McKewon of the Nebraska StatePaper compares the USC Football program to a business, a paradigm shift from the old military references in football.  He simultaneously diminishes Pete Carroll’s skill as strategic thinker in game-planning and coaching on the field and builds him up as a manager of a program, an administrator - as if the program were a […]