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  • USC football and women's volleyball have home games this weekend

    Josh Finley, Sports Reporter|Oct 19, 2023

    If you are a USC sports fan this weekend is your ticket. The 6-1 Trojan football team takes on 5-1 Utah on Saturday at 5 p.m. at the Coliseum and the 11-7 USC women's volleyball team faces Washington on Sunday at 2 p.m. inside the Galen Center on the USC campus. The USC women are 5-3 in the Pac-12. The football game is the start of one of the Trojans toughest schedule runs in many years. Four of their last five games are against teams all ranked in the top 25 in the nation. The only team they pl...

  • No. 10 USC travels to No. 21 Notre Dame on Saturday

    Josh Finley, Sports Reporter|Oct 12, 2023

    The football game between the 6-0 USC Trojans and the 5-2 Fighting Irish will be televised on Channel 4, at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday. Trojans are coming off a 43-41 triple overtime win over Arizona last Saturday at the Coliseum and the Fighting Irish lost to Louisville 33-20 last Saturday. The game should be a hard-fought contest between two good college football teams. The Trojans are ranked No. 10 in the nation and the Irish are No. 21. You can throw the rankings and the records out the window...

  • USC women's volleyball looks to improve before conference play

    Josh Finley, Finley sports Reporter|Oct 12, 2023

    The 4-4 USC women's volleyball team knows they have to get better before they open Pac-12 Conference play next week. Nine of the 12 Pac-12 teams have winning records and three teams are ranked in the top 25 of Women's college volleyball. They will finish another road trip this week after they face Illinois on Thursday and Purdue on Friday in the Boilermaker Challenge Tournament. When they return home, they have to travel across town to face the 7-1 UCLA Bruins on Wednesday at 7 p.m. On...

  • USC women's volleyball looks to improve before conference play

    Josh Finley, Sports Reporter|Oct 5, 2023

    The 4-4 USC women's volleyball team knows they have to get better before they open Pac-12 Conference play next week. Nine of the 12 Pac-12 teams have winning records and three teams are ranked in the top 25 of Women's college volleyball. They will finish another road trip this week after they face Illinois on Thursday and Purdue on Friday in the Boilermaker Challenge Tournament. When they return home, they have to travel across town to face the 7-1 UCLA Bruins on Wednesday at 7 p.m. On...

  • USC women's volleyball looks to improve before conference play

    Josh Finley, Sports Reporter|Sep 28, 2023

    The 4-4 USC women's volleyball team knows they have to get better before they open Pac-12 Conference play next week. Nine of the 12 Pac-12 teams have winning records and three teams are ranked in the top 25 of Women's college volleyball. They will finish another road trip this week after they face Illinois on Thursday and Purdue on Friday in the Boilermaker Challenge Tournament. When they return home, they have to travel across town to face the 7-1 UCLA Bruins on Wednesday at 7 p.m. On...

  • USC women's volleyball looks to improve before conference play

    Josh Finley, Sports Reporter|Sep 14, 2023

    By Josh Finley sports Reporter The 4-4 USC women's volleyball team knows they have to get better before they open Pac-12 Conference play next week. Nine of the 12 Pac-12 teams have winning records and three teams are ranked in the top 25 of Women's college volleyball. They will finish another road trip this week after they face Illinois on Thursday and Purdue on Friday in the Boilermaker Challenge Tournament. When they return home, they have to travel across town to face the 7-1 UCLA Bruins on...

  • USC women's volleyball team plays two home games this week

    Josh Finley, Sports Reporter|Sep 29, 2022

    The USC women's volleyball team will host two Pac-12 games on Friday and Sunday at the Galen Center on the USC campus. The Trojans play Colorado on Friday at 7 p.m. and Utah on Sunday at 1 p.m. USC is 9-4, Colorado is 10-2 and Utah is 8-5. USC is tied for fourth place in the Pac-12 with five other teams. Once again, the Pac-12 is one of the best volleyball conferences in the nation with several teams ranked in the top 25 nationally. The Trojans have a solid team that came into last Saturday's...

  • Women of Troy Struggle, but do not count them out

    Josh Finley, Sports Reporter|Oct 14, 2021

    "Simple plays were not executed, and a lot of points were left on the board." Those were the first words USC head women's volleyball coach Brad Keller said after his team suffered a tough loss to 17th ranked Utah last week at home at the Galen Center. With a Pac-12 conference winning percentage of .500 at 3-3, it will be the little things that make them a potential playoff contender. Being consistently aggressive throughout the sets, minimal service errors, and having strong communication are...

  • Rams hope Jackson and Stafford can make magic down the field

    Josh Finley, Sports Reporter|Aug 12, 2021

    It's been a while since the Los Angeles Rams have consistently thrown the ball deep. In 2018 and 2019 Rams quarterback Jared Goff and wide receiver Brandin Cooks got together on some deep pass plays but it was never consistent. Cooks left the team last year and Goff was traded this year to the Detroit Lions for Matthew Stafford and the Rams also picked up DeSean Jackson, the former Long Beach Poly high school and California speedster. Can this combination help the Rams stretch the field and...

  • Bruins Look to beat Cal

    Josh Finley, Special to the Observer|Oct 11, 2018

    The UCLA Bruins travel to play the University of California on Saturday at 4 p.m. in a very important game. The game is significant because if the Bruins win it will be their first win of the season. UCLA is 0-5 going into Saturday’s game. It’s the first time since 1943 that UCLA has loss their first five games. Last week against the 10th ranked University of Washington the Bruins played their best game of the season. UCLA ran for passed for 272 yards and ran for 150 on 27 carries. Bruin running back Joshua Kelley accounted for 125 of tho...