Updates from October, 2007

Freshman center Mamadou Diarra may have sustained a hernia during Monday’s practice, the Times reports today. Doctors will examine the 7-footer tomorrow and determine if the injury requires surgery, which would sideline Diarra for at least a month. If surgery is necessary and rehabilitation drags on for much longer than that, the Trojans could choose […]

Quarterback controversy? Not according to USC’s coaching staff. Pete Carroll reiterated in his weekly press conference on Tuesday that, without question, if John David Booty proves he’s fully recovered from his finger injury this week in practice, he will replace Mark Sanchez as the starting quarterback on Saturday. Booty took almost all of the first-team […]

Would-be Reggie Bush business associate Lloyd Lake filed a civil lawsuit against the former Trojan tailback in a San Diego court on Tuesday, claiming that Bush and his family accepted almost $300,000 in gifts (including cash) while still attending USC. Bush has previously denied any wrongdoing, and Lake has a shady past (he has been […]

Ben Bolch of the LA Times again profiles the very young Trojan hoops team with high expectations and a brutally difficult schedule - a schedule which was constituted with the thought that either Gabe Pruitt or Nick Young (both NBA rookies) would return for his senior season. OJ Mayo sums up the predicament:
We’ve got a […]

If there was a quarterback controversy brewing at SC after Mark Sanchez’s solid performance at Notre Dame, it all but died after the 3rd-year sophomore arguably cost his team the Oregon game a week later by throwing two second-half interceptions. Pete Carroll told reporters in no uncertain terms that if John David Booty, who worked […]

The USC Trojans defeated themselves, 76-68, in their annual intrasquad scrimmage held Sunday afternoon at the Galen Center. Freshman guard OJ Mayo scored a game-high 34 points and added six steals and four assists to lead the victorious Cardinal team over the Gold squad. The latter group was led by F Davon Jefferson and G […]

The No. 13 USC Trojans (6-2, 3-2) will look to salvage what’s left of their season when they host the Oregon State Beavers (5-3, 3-2) in USC’s annual homecoming game on Saturday at the Coliseum. The two teams are tied for fourth in the Pac-10 and are looking to make a move up the standings. […]

USC’s loss to Oregon on Saturday resulted in another drop in each of the college football polls, although not quite as far as you may have expected (perhaps because national voters are finally beginning to recognize the Ducks as a very good team). The Trojans now find themselves at #13 in the AP and Harris […]

While it does appear that the better football team won Saturday afternoon in Eugene, where the fifth-ranked Oregon Ducks (7-1, 4-1) were 24-17 victors over the ninth-ranked USC Trojans (6-2, 3-2), the underdog Trojans nevertheless appeared at one point to have a good chance at the upset. But each time momentum swung to USC, the […]

For the first time since its 2001 game against UCLA, the Trojans are underdogs (currently +3) in a Pac-10 game today. However, SC won that 2001 game 27-0, and they won blowout victories against the last 3 teams who were favored against them: Auburn (Leinart’s first game), Oklahoma (national title game), and Michigan (2007 Rose Bowl). […]