Updates from September 28th, 2007

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. […]