The 2024-25 offseason, in the slowly-dawning era of revenue-sharing and an inflated NIL marketplace, is shaping up to be massively important for USC heading into a possible make-or-break season for Lincoln Riley’s program rebuild. With an improved budget for collective House of Victory and heavy need at multiple positions, here’s a tracker for the USC … Read more
USC’s Saint Thomas handles the ball as Oregon’s Jackson Shelstad, center, and Kwame Evans Jr., right, defend during the first half of their Big Ten opener on Wednesday night at the Galen Center. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Oregon’s Supreme Cook looks for a way around USC’s Josh Cohen during the first … Read more
PASADENA — Maybe USC’s football Trojans have finally figured it out. Maybe it took all of those blown leads, and excruciating losses, to unlock the code that leads to victory in close games. Saturday night they made it excruciating for their crosstown rivals. UCLA had a 13-9 lead going into the fourth quarter at the … Read more
LOS ANGELES — In the winter, as Lincoln Riley extended feelers across town in a stealth attempt to pry away the defensive wunderkind who had just bested him, he delivered D’Anton Lynn several assurances. His mentality – as he detailed to reporters in December – was that they would do everything possible to accelerate the … Read more
Jim Alexander: Only in the NCAA can you get in trouble – if you want to call it that – for violating a rule that has since been rescinded. Which is why we woke up Thursday to stories of USC’s football program being put on probation. Or, as the Fox News website headlined it: “USC … Read more
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — At long last, after a season scorned by losses, after the “few plays away” that had defined USC’s season, they seemed set to close a football game on the steady leg of Georgia Southern transfer kicker Michael Lantz. 41-yard try. Two minutes left. USC up six. Snap. Kick. Ballgame, it should’ve … Read more
LOS ANGELES – To be fair, this USC football team didn’t misrepresent itself. It didn’t set out to sell you on an impossible dream this season. These Trojans are who they said they’d be: A team with modest expectations. It really shouldn’t be a shock that USC, a team with upside and obvious flaws, finds … Read more
Examining some of the angles of the Heisman Trophy-winning running back’s latest legal fight against the USC, the Pac-12 and the NCAA. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here. Originally Published: October 7, 2024 at 2:27 p.m. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic … Read more
Southern California wide receiver Duce Robinson scores a touchdown while Minnesota defensive back Darius Green (12) falls to the field during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt) Minnesota defensive back Ethan Robinson, left, forces Southern California running back Quinten Joyner to fumble the … Read more
The defensive tackle was once close to transferring, but defensive line coach Eric Henderson has drawn on his own past to develop a bond deeper than football Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here. Originally Published: August 30, 2024 at 12:01 p.m. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! … Read more
