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By Myke Williams Sports Reporter The USC football team has experienced a lot of ups and downs this season. This week they find themselves up at the top of the Pac-12 South division. They control their own destiny starting Saturday when they travel to Oregon to face the Ducks at 12:30 p.m. The teams have identical records of 7-3 overall and 5-2 in their divisions and the game will be televised on ESPN. The first place Trojans will be facing a team that has also found its’ way. After a slow start the Ducks, who played in the National C...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter The UCLA football team will need to be at its’ best on the defensive side of the ball when it plays Washington State at 7:45 p.m. Saturday at the Rose Bowl. The game will be televised on ESPN. The Cougars have one of the best quarterbacks in the nation in Luke Falk who currently leads the nation in passing yards with 3,736 and is second in touchdown passes with 33. The good news is the Bruins are coming off of a 41-0 win over Oregon State last Saturday so their injury riddled defense seems to be clicking on a...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter The 6-3 USC football team hopes to make it four wins in a row when it travels to Colorado tonight in a rare Friday night game at 6 p.m. on ESPN2. The Trojans will face the Buffalos in temperatures that are expected to drop into the 20’s. After they battle the 4-6 Buffalos their two remaining regular season games are against Oregon on the road next Saturday and UCLA at home on November 28. Last Saturday the Trojans beat Arizona 38-30. They were led by freshman running back Roland Jones II who set a freshman r...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter The UCLA Bruins football team will play the Oregon State Beavers for the first time in three years Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in Corvallis. The Bruins, who are coming off a 35-31 win over Colorado last Saturday hope their injuries do not get in the way of their will to win. Against Colorado the Bruins defense was on the field for over 41 minutes in a 60-minute game. The noon kickoff time, plus the 90 degree weather created a combination that produced injuries, cramps...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter The USC football team is hoping to put together its first three-game winning streak of the 2015 season when it hosts Arizona at the Coliseum Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. The Trojans are 5-3 overall and tied for second place in the Pac-12 south with UCLA with a record of 3-2. Arizona is 5-4 overall and 2-4 in the south division. The Trojans may be without the services of their best wide receiver, JuJu Smith-Schuster for the game on Saturday. Smith-Schuster injured his right hand in the 27-21 win over California...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter The UCLA football team will need to stay focused the next three weeks if they expect to have any chance of winning the Pac-12 South. They play teams they are supposed to beat when they host Colorado on Saturday at noon at the Rose Bowl, Oregon State on the road on November 7 and Washington State on November 14 at the Rose Bowl. After those three games they will face two of the better teams in the division on the road when they travel to Utah on November 21 and...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter The 4-3 USC football team, fresh off its 42-24 upset win over No. 3 Utah last week will need to continue to play at a high level this Saturday when they take on the California Golden Bears at noon in Berkeley. The Bears are looking to get back into the win column after losing to UCLA last week. USC, UCLA and Arizona State are tied for second place in the Pac-12 South with a record of 2-2, while Utah continues to lead the South with a record of 3-1. In two of the Trojans’ three losses the defense has given up o...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter The USC Trojans will jump right back into the fire this Saturday when they take on the No. 3 team in the country, Utah in the Coliseum at 4:30 p.m. The game will be televised on Fox Sports. Last Saturday they lost to 11th ranked Norte Dame, 41-31. After losing their head coach a few weeks ago things don’t get any easier for the Trojans. Utah is led by running back Denvontae Booker and quarterback Travis Wilson on offense and linebackers Gionni Paul and Jared Norris on defense. Booker is averaging 130.5 yards rus...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor As the athletic director at USC Pat Haden was giving Stave Sarkisian every opportunity to solve his drinking problem. Was he being a good boss? Or was he ignoring the long-range problems that could result from keeping Sarkisian longer? When Sarkisian didn’t attend a practice last week, apparently from an alcohol binge, and then fired him, it appears that Haden gambled and lost. This was the second time this season that Sarkisian had embarrassed the university b...
By Myke William Sports Reporters When you are one of the top players in college football and you are you are expected to leave school early and try to make it in the National Football League after your junior year. When UCLA linebacker Myles Jack started his junior season this year everyone knew this would be his last one in Westwood. When he hurt his right knee a few weeks ago and was declared out for the season some people thought his plans had changed. For him to try to rehab his knee and try to attend classes in a ten week quarter system wh...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter USC head football coach Steve Sarkisian ran into a large bump in the road while coaching the 2015 Trojan football team. That bump is called life. He was the coach of one of the most prestigious universities in the world and making millions of dollars. Unfortunately for him at this time of his life that job put him in a glass house where he could not make any major mistakes. Fortunately he had a boss that stood firmly behind him until the bitter end. USC Athletic Director Pat Haden tried his best to support an...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter The UCLA Bruins were knocked off of cloud nine last Saturday when the Arizona State Sun Devils upset the seventh ranked Bruins 38-23 at the Rose Bowl. Just when you thought the Bruins were going to have one of the best seasons in school history along comes a bump in the road. The good news is Ohio State lost a game it was supposed to win last year and they went on to win the National Championship. So there is hope for the Bruins but it does not get any easier because they travel to the bay area to play Stanford...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter The UCLA Bruins found out two important things about their football team after the win overt BYU last Saturday at the Rose Bowl. Number one, their freshmen quarterback Josh Rosen is human after all and nothing can take the place of veteran leadership. Rosen completed only 11 passes for 106 yards and threw three interceptions compared to his opening day game of 351 yards and last week's win over UNLV. With the passing game not up to par the Bruins turned to...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter Two weeks and two weak opponents is a bad combination. The USC Trojans found that out last Saturday when Stanford defeated the Trojans 41-31 in USC’s first real test of the 2015 season. David Shaw’s Cardinals played smart, disciplined football while the Trojans committed eight costly penalties. The Trojans won the first two games of the season against Arkansas State 55-6 and 59-9 against Idaho. It does not get any easier for the Trojans because they travel to the valley of the sun to face the Arizona State Sun...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter The USC Trojans move into the heart and soul of their football schedule starting this Saturday when they battle the Stanford Cardinal at the Coliseum at 5 p.m. This will be the first Pac-12 game for both teams when the 1-1 Cardinals face the 2-0 Trojans. USC will be playing its first upper class Division 1 team after beating up on Arkansas State 55-6 and Idaho 59-9. Regardless of the opponents the Trojans are loaded with enough talent to may a run at the Pac-12 south title and a major bowl game but their first...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor Everyone knew UCLA had a premier quarterback recruit in Josh Rosen. He’s 6-foot-4 with a very strong arm and he threw 100 touchdown passes at St. John Bosco High in Bellflower. But he’s also a freshman and Coach Jim Mora Jr. hadn’t announced who would start Saturday’s opening game against Virginia Tech. Maybe Rosen, maybe the more experienced Jerry Neuheisel. There’s no doubt now who’ll start the second game and a whole lot more. To say Rosen was sensational...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter If Josh Rosen first game as the UCLA starting quarterback is any indication, the freshman signal caller may be headed in a direction that we have never seen at UCLA. He looked better than former Bruin and Super Bowl champion quarterback Troy Aikman. Last Saturday at the Rose Bowl Rosen completed 28 out of 35 passes for 351 yards for three touchdowns with no interceptions. From his first pass to the last every one of his passes appeared to be right on target like Aikman use to do when he was in Westwood. Bruin...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor Cody Kessler compiled impressive statistics last season as the USC quarterback. Impressive enough that you’d think NFL teams would want him. But the NFL was only lukewarm on Kessler. Maybe he wasn’t tall enough. Maybe they found faults. For whatever reason Kessler didn’t declare for the NFL draft and returned to USC for his senior season where’s he’s regarded as a candidate to win the Heisman trophy. That alone gives the Trojans reason to be optimistic about the...
USC football coach Steve Sarkisian has apologized for his inappropriate comments and lewd jokes at a Salute to Troy event Saturday night on campus. He said at a Tuesday press conference he mixed medication and alcohol and has begun treatment although he says he is not an alcoholic. “I won’t drink any more this season,” he added. “This will not happen again.” Some players said they were embarrassed by the coach’s behavior, including his remarks about Pac-12 conference opponents. USC is ranked eighth nationally in the first AP poll for the sea...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor When Brett Hundley enrolled at UCLA three football seasons ago he was walking on campus when a coed called out “here comes the savior.” The incoming freshman seemed humbled as he said “I’m not the savior. I’m just trying to find my way here.” In three seasons, however, Hundley did appear to be a savior. In each season UCLA beat USC, reversing a trend that lasted a decade. Hundley then said he had accomplished what he could in Westwood and entered the NFL draft a...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor Well, here’s a most unusual story to begin the 2015 college football season. Hip hop music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, the father of UCLA defensive back Justin Combs, was arrested by UCLA police and charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon (a kettlebeck) and one count of making terrorist threats Monday following a confrontation with Bruin assistant coach Sal Alosi. A kettlebeck is a piece of weightlifting equipment. It has a handle with a sharp...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor After Ohio State defeated Oregon Monday night to win the first ever college football playoff Coach Urban Meyer called the Buckeyes’rags to riches story one of the best in college football history. It would be hard to argue with him. Ohio State’s starting quarterback, a Heisman Trophy candidate, went out with an injury. His replacement had an outstanding season but was unable to play in the final three games due to his own injury. A sophomore who hadn’t playe...
For many years the Pac-10 champion and Big Ten champion capped a football season by playing in the Rose Bowl game. This time the conference’s best teams, Oregon and Ohio State, will also cap a season. But it won’t be in merely one of many bowl games, it will be in the first college football national championship game. Oregon has already conquered its Rose Bowl opponent, Florida State, 59-20 in the playoff semi-final. It now moves on to the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium in Arlington, Texas Monday, Jan....
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor The committee that settled on the four teams who’ll play in the first College Football Playoff got it right at the finish. But this distinguished group created needless controversy in the manner it operated, first advancing TCU to No. 3, then five days later after the team had crushed its final regular season opponent, 51-3, dropped TCU to No. 6. The committee on Sunday ultimately set up the two semi-finals properly. Oregon (No. 2) will play Florida State (No. 3...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor I'm old enough to remember Red Sanders' impact when he coached football at UCLA. And the dynasties of John McKay and Pete Carroll at USC, among others. In this city with a remarkable cross-town rivalry the school with the more prominent coach often prevails. That coach currently is Jim Mora at UCLA. Mora has coached UCLA for three years and the Bruins, who couldn't beat the Trojans for a decade, have won the last three meetings. The latest was the Bruins'...
