Updates: Practice & Training

A few notes from Monday’s football practice session:

Freshman tailback Broderick Green, who is redshirting this season thanks to undergoing foot surgery earlier this fall, suffered a setback when that same foot began bothering him again during Monday’s practice. He will be evaluated today.
Butch Lewis and Charles Brown will compete this week for the starting left […]

Pete Carroll named John David Booty the starting quarterback for Saturday’s game against Oregon State, an unsurprising announcement given that Booty’s fractured finger had healed enough for him to take most of the first-team snaps in practice this week.

OG Chilo Rachal was given the day off to rest his sore calf, which tightened up on […]

Doctors advised All-American left-tackle Sam Baker not to play Saturday against Oregon State after examining his partially torn hamstring. Even though it’s the larger part of his hamstring which is torn, making him less susceptible to suffering a full tear upon returning, and despite having received a second anti-inflammatory shot on Monday, Pete Carroll said […]

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 […]

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 […]

On a day when Pete Carroll satisfied fans’ expectations–and, judging from our poll results, their wishes–by naming Mark Sanchez the starting quarterback for USC’s matchup with Oregon, one-time starter John David Booty sat out of practice to rest his injured finger. Booty is capable of playing if needed on Saturday, but the plan now is […]

The Trojan men’s basketball team will hold a free, intrasquad scrimmage this Sunday (October 28) at the Galen Center at 1:00p. Prior to the scrimmage, at 9:00a, the team is also sponsoring the second annual “Dribble for the Cure” charity event.
More info on scrimmage and Dribble for the Cure (Official USC Site)
Some other basketball tidbits […]

If the emotional side of the Trojan football team was given a lift with Saturday’s win at Notre Dame, the team’s physical state has followed suit this week. Wednesday saw the remarkable improvement of two key offensive linemen and steady progress by one of the Trojan quarterbacks. Read on for details.

Former USC wideout Johnnie Morton was in attendance as the Trojans spent another day under smoke-filled skies preparing for Saturday’s matchup of top-ten teams in Oregon. Nothing changed on the quarterback front, meaning that (a) no decision was made about the starter, and (b) it still looks like it’s Mark Sanchez’s job for now. Here […]