Updates from September, 2007

AP voters expressed their disapproval of USC’s performance in a lackluster 27-24 victory over the Washington Huskies on Saturday night, dropping the Trojans to #2 in the latest college football rankings for the first time this season. USC held on to its top ranking in the USA Today coaches’ poll and the Harris Interactive rankings, […]

New Trojan point guard OJ Mayo is elbowing out the competition–literally. Mayo accidentally elbowed his teammate, sophomore point guard Daniel Hackett, in the face during a pickup game at the Galen Center on Thursday, resulting in a broken jaw for Hackett. Hackett had surgery on Friday and his jaw is now wired shut, preventing him […]

On a cold, windy and wet evening in Seattle, the top-ranked Trojans played perhaps their worst game of the season, losing three key players to injury, enduring a lackluster performance by their quarterback, failing to hold onto the ball, and committing an astounding number of penalties against a tough Pac-10 opponent. The result? Another USC […]

The Trojans will have a pair of new starters–CB Shareece Wright and LB Thomas Williams–as they take on QB Jake Locker and the 2-2 Washington Huskies in a 5:00p game (televised on ABC) at Husky Stadium in Seattle. The Trojans had beautiful weather for their walk-through at the stadium on Friday (see Trojan Ticker for […]

USC athletic department administrators officially announced Thursday that plans are being developed for a state-of-the-art extension to Heritage Hall that will benefit the football team as well as all other USC sports. The crown jewel of the extension, as Ben Malcolmson describes it, will be a 25,000-square-foot weight room, which is more than double the […]

Sean Gregory of Time Magazine, hardly on the cutting edge of this story, profiles USC’s 14-year-old, 138 lb. hoops commit Ryan Boatright of East Aurora High (outside Chicago) as part of a larger story on ” the latest alarming trend in the often shady game of college-sports recruiting: coaches offering scholarships to athletes very early in […]

On October 9, Chris Galippo will undergo back surgery to be performed by Dr. Robert Watkins, and he’ll be eligible for a redshirt, which the freshmen considers “a blessing” because he’ll have 4 more years of eligibility to go with some solid experience gained in the first three games this season. Galippo will be barred […]

Phil Collin of the LA Daily News profiles USC’s surprising 2008 interception leader junior DE Kyle Moore. A guy many thought would be beaten out in short order by heralded freshman Everson Griffen, Moore has become a zone-blitz specialist (who drops into coverage when a linebacker or defensive back blitzes) in Carroll’s complex schemes devised with Nick Holt. […]

Individual game tickets for USC men’s basketball will go on sale through the school’s ticket office online on October 1st at midnight. Season tickets, which went on sale over the summer, are still being sold as well.
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USC is reporting this afternoon that, as feared, freshman LB Chris Galippo will have back surgery next week, after being diagnosed today with a herniated disc. He will miss the remainder of the season, but will almost certainly be granted a medical redshirt and come back next season with four years of eligibility remaining.