Inconsistent defense prefaces USC’s search for new defensive coordinator
LOS ANGELES — The walls surrounding USC’s postgame press conference room were reverberating from the bass from UCLA’s locker room on Saturday evening. The Bruins were undoubtedly Dougie-ing as Trojans...
View ArticleUCLA football pummels USC in lopsided rivalry matchup
LOS ANGELES — Seconds after the end of a beatdown at the Coliseum, USC quarterback Caleb Williams hugged his mother, leaning down over the guardrail of the family section. He hugged his father,...
View ArticleIf Caleb Williams is gone, the ‘climb’ for USC has fallen back to base camp
LOS ANGELES – This was a strange setting for a finale, rain falling softly across Caleb Williams’ face Wednesday night, campus pitch-black beyond the turf at USC’s practice field. How do you want to be...
View ArticleUSC outlasts Brown behind Boogie Ellis’ 28 points
LOS ANGELES — He caught the inbound just a few steps inside halfcourt, launching a 40-footer from his shoulder, USC’s senior leader was so supremely confident at this point in his five-year journey...
View ArticleInside the Lindsay Gottlieb-led renaissance of USC women’s basketball
LOS ANGELES — The gravitational pull at the Galen Center first began with Lindsay Gottlieb, in orbit in Cleveland thousands of miles away, no intention of leaving until she felt the magnetic tug toward...
View ArticlePac-12 bowl projections: Washington to the CFP, USC to Las Vegas and UCLA to...
Helpful reminders on the postseason selection process before we plunge into the latest Pac-12 bowl forecast: — The Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl will host the College Football Playoff semifinals, leaving...
View ArticleUSC men’s basketball faces Seton Hall in search of big help
LOS ANGELES — Last week, when this USC squad was so ravaged by injuries that they were running a 6-foot-9 kid at shooting guard in lineups they’d never even thought of playing, Coach Andy Enfield...
View ArticleJuJu Watkins, No. 8 USC women surge past Penn State in Bahamas
NASSAU, Bahamas — Freshman JuJu Watkins scored 31 points, including the last seven of the game and a half-court buzzer-beater, and the eighth-ranked USC women’s basketball team pulled out a 71-70...
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Homeless in high school, USC’s Kyon Barrs fights for NFL dream for himself...
LOS ANGELES — Their first summer in a hotel, when the walls would close in and taste for Burger King and 7-Eleven pizza would stale, Kyon Barrs would assemble his siblings to go outside and chase the...
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USC loses to Oklahoma on tip-in with 1.4 seconds left in tourney final
USC guard Boogie Ellis shoots over Oklahoma guard Javian McCollum during the first half of the championship game of the Rady Children’s Invitational on Friday afternoon in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis...
View ArticleUSC’s Raleek Brown plans to enter transfer portal, father says
LOS ANGELES — After a tumultuous and underwhelming season, the first domino has fallen in what is likely to be a raucous transfer portal scramble awaiting this USC program come early December. Running...
View ArticleUSC men’s basketball already faces an early crossroads
LOS ANGELES — “Were you worried at all,” the question was posed to Boogie Ellis and Kobe Johnson, “that you’d lose?” “No,” Ellis answered, expression not moving a muscle, after USC’s victory over Brown...
View ArticleAlexander: Expectations in Southern California sports have been upended
The world according to Jim: • Maybe it’s not being off target on our expectations as much as it is not knowing what to expect, period. But the last couple of months in this region have reminded us why...
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USC’s Boogie Ellis drains career-high 8 3-pointers in rout of Eastern Washington
USC’s Joshua Morgan dunks during the first half of their game against Eastern Washington on Wednesday night at the Galen Center. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG) USC freshman Bronny...
View ArticleUSC’s Bronny James cleared by doctors for return
LOS ANGELES — Signs of recovery have dotted the Galen Center with every Bronny James appearance across the past month, the freshman increasingly present with USC teammates with each passing week,...
View ArticleLeBron James would miss Lakers game for Bronny’s USC debut
OKLAHOMA CITY — For LeBron James, it’s family over everything. So if the Lakers star faces the situation of his oldest son Bronny’s looming college basketball debut for USC happening on the same day as...
View ArticleThe world according to Jennifer Cohen: Catching up with USC’s AD
LOS ANGELES — Jennifer Cohen’s introduction at USC, really, was a heck of a lot easier than her first few days at the University of Washington. Seven years ago, a room of colleagues in Seattle burst...
View ArticleUSC’s Isaiah Collier is turning over a new leaf heading into Gonzaga matchup
LOS ANGELES — The mock drafts have already come calling, a buzz a 19-year-old Isaiah Collier shakes off with a smile. He’s focused on college, the USC freshman says after a Tuesday practice, a kid of...
View ArticleUSC hires UCLA’s D’Anton Lynn as defensive coordinator
LOS ANGELES — With growing smoke around USC’s future, the program going down in flames after a disastrous 7-5 season in Coach Lincoln Riley’s second year, the first fire to extinguish was a looming...
View ArticlePac-12 bowl picks: Washington heads to the CFP, Oregon awaits New Year’s Six bid
The final, most anticipated Pac-12 championship game provided fabulous theatre Friday night in Las Vegas as Washington lost a big lead, then rallied in the fourth quarter to edge Oregon 34-31 and...
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