Updates: Publications & Sites

For those of you dying to get your hands on a 2008 Rose Bowl game program in advance, the publications are being sold for $10, plus shipping and handling. (Of course, they are “not guaranteed to arrive by game day,” so technically you will only be paying for them in advance, not necessarily receiving them […]

Trojan guard OJ Mayo appears–along with cross-town rival Kevin Love–on the regional cover of this week’s college basketball preview issue of Sports Illustrated. An article inside the magazine talks about the friendship between the two freshmen, and profiles Mayo, who tells SI that, “I try to make basketball like a chess game.”
SI may now have […]

USA Today’s special college basketball preview section features USC’s OJ Mayo and UCLA’s Kevin Love on the cover, and an article on the two heralded freshmen inside. There’s no new information, but the profile does a good job recounting Mayo’s basketball career to date.
Big lights, big hopes for Mayo, Love in Los Angeles (USA Today)

After a solid game against Washington State, Pete Carroll wasted no time in shifting his focus to Washington on Sunday, in particular their redshirt freshman quarterback Jake Locker. Carroll calls Locker “amazing” and “as good a prospect as we’ve seen in our conference in a long time,” which, pondering just the Trojan prospects during Carroll’s […]

USC’s dominating victory over Nebraska on Saturday was enough to land the Trojans on the cover of the September 24 issue of Sports Illustrated. The associated article, in addition to focusing on tailback Stafon Johnson and the resurgent Trojan ground game, dives into this season’s running storyline: namely, which conference is superior, the Pac-10 […]

The Associated Press published its preseason Top 25 within the hour, and for the third time in the last four years, USC is its #1 team, garnering all but 3 of the poll’s 65 first place votes.  LSU (2 first place votes), West Virginia (1 first place vote), Texas, and Michigan round out the top 5.  2007 […]

Scott Wolf has submitted his first Associated Press ballot of the season, ranking USC # 1, LSU #2, and West Virginia #3.  He puts 2007 Trojan opponents Cal at #11, Nebraska at #22, and UCLA at #24.
The Top 25 (Scott Wolf)

It’s never too late to jump into the USC blogging scene, and the Los Angeles Times has finally added a companion to its UCLA sports blog (”What’s Bruin”) with “All Things Trojan,” a brand-new USC sports blog by Adam Rose. Rose, the current sports editor for popular city blog LAist.com, will retain that position while […]

The Sporting News is the latest of the major national publications to pick USC as the number one team in the land.  If you’re in the mood for yet another breakdown of the Trojan team, by all means, give it a click.
Top 25 countdown: No. 1 USC (Sporting News)

As Ivan Maisel notes, No. 1 USC has more players on the ESPN.com preseason All-America team than any other school. Those Trojan All-Americans, all seniors, are OT Sam Baker, DE Lawrence Jackson, DT Sedrick Ellis, and LB Keith Rivers. The only other Pac-10 player on ESPN’s team is Cal’s junior WR DeSean Jackson, who, as Maisel […]