Updates: Publications & Sites

According to Scott Wolf, due to many complaints (including my own), USC dropped the annoying registration requirement for its website, usctrojans.com. I’m glad the powers-that-be wised up early so as to not alienate its fans who may simply want to consult rosters, schedules, or other free basics.
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In its exhaustive 50 teams in 50 days survey of the best teams in college football, Rivals.com (a Yahoo property) selected USC as the nation’s #1 team. Most interestingly, Olin Buchanan of Rivals singles out players as best, underrated, and overrated on their respective units. (Offense: Best: Booty, Overrated: Byers, Underrated: Havili / Defense: Best: […]

ESPN has put together a committee of 15 writers to rank all 119 Division I football programs over the last 10 seasons, and USC has come out on top. With a record of 90-35, .720 winning percentage, 2 national titles, 5 conference titles, and a 4-3 bowl record, USC beat out #2 Ohio State, # […]

USC has issued a press release detailing their new premium online multimedia package, TrojanTV All-Access. TrojanTV’s main attraction is live web broadcasts of all USC home sporting events (plus selected road games) that are not broadcast on television. Those events that are televised live will be replayed on TrojanTV almost immediately after their conclusion (and […]

The official Pac-10 website will have live streaming media coverage of the conference’s annual college football media day, to be held this Thursday, July 26, from 9:30am - noon. After an introduction, each team will take the podium for 15 minutes, with the head coach and one selected player from each school in attendance. USC […]

The Pacific-10 conference has made its free 2007 Pac-10 Football Guide available online in PDF format today. Functioning as a media guide for the conference, the 142-page publication includes historical information and records for the Pac-10, a detailed recap of the 2006 season, and stats, rosters, schedules and other information for all ten conference teams.
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Among the most popular weekly items on Scott Wolf’s (L.A. Daily News) blog is his open forum, through which he solicits questions from his users, just about all of which he answers, often with a surprising amount of detail and insight.
Among this weeks nuggets from his forum answers, Wolf claims that “batted down passes will continue to […]

USC appears to be the easy choice for No. 1 in most every publication’s preseason poll, but the method of arriving at a given voter’s top 25 appears to vary greatly, from ranking teams based stricly on how talented they are at the moment, to ordering the schools based on their likelihood of playing for […]

As of July 1st, WeAreSC.com has officially split off from the Scout Network, and is now partnered with ESPN.com. Scout will continue covering USC recruiting and athletics at scout.usc.com, and is currently looking for someone to head those efforts.
As for WeAreSC, Trojan fans have a brand new site to look at, under the continued leadership […]

News comes this morning that recruiting news site Rivals.com–which operates USCFootball.com–has been acquired by Yahoo! for approximately $100 million (or $40 million above what Fox paid to acquire Scout.com two years ago). No word yet on what the acquisition will mean for USCFootball.com, but in a message board post that site’s Ryan Abraham says that […]