Updates from September 6th, 2007

The Trojans practiced in half pads on Thursday afternoon, with pumped-in crowd noise to help simulate conditions during next Saturday’s contest at Nebraska. Some notes from the relatively uneventful day:

DE Kyle Moore sat out after rolling his ankle the day before. He expects to return on Friday.
QB Mark Sanchez led the second team offense, and […]

USC’s men’s water polo team begins its 2007 season on Saturday with a home contest (at McDonald’s Swim Stadium) against #12 Loyola Marymount. The Trojans enter the season ranked first in the nation after falling to Cal in last year’s national championship game, losing with just under 2 seconds left in the contest.
Reloaded and refocused […]

ESPN’s Andy Katz surveys those stars of the USC basketball team not named Mayo, USC’s 2008 class, and its long-term recruits, but he focuses on heralded incoming freshman Davon Jefferson. Sophomore Taj Gibon refers’s to Jefferson’s talent ceiling as “limitless”:
His game is different than mine because he attacks the rim, can jump and shoot the 17-18 footer.
USC’s Jefferson a future […]

On what has become known as “Turnover Wednesday”, freshman Mark Tyler obliged by fumbling one away to the defense in drills, and the USC coaching staff piped in crowd noise on Howard Jones field to simulate the raucous crowed at Nebraska’s Memorial Stadium. The team will return to the FieldTurf on Cromwell Field a few more […]