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Defensive Issues
Inside USC | Los Angeles Daily News — You could argue it was a first game. In Hawaii. And the Warriors ran a spread-out offense. A less charitable view would be that USC's defense showed some disturbing tendencies that were peculiar to last season, especially in the Stanford...
3 hours agoExamining the Pac-10 football weekend
Orange County Register — It won't become the SEC or the Big Ten overnight. It can't yet rival the Big 12. It's closing in on the ACC and the Big East. And with several challenging contests in this opening weekend, the Pac-10 has a valuable opportunity to raise its national...
3 hours agoPost-Game Questions
Inside USC | Los Angeles Daily News — Ask you questions on the USC-Hawaii game here. One per person please....
5 hours agoQuick Thinking
Inside USC | Los Angeles Daily News — Wide receiver Ronald Johnson said on his 89-yard punt return for a TD. ``For a moment, I was like, maybe I should fair-catch it. I made a full-speed decision.''...
5 hours agoPostgame thoughts: Hawaii
USC Blog | ESPN Los Angeles — HONOLULU -- Notes, quotes and video from USC's 49-36 victory over Hawaii Thursday night at Aloha Stadium: Lots of positives and lots of negatives for the Trojans in the season opener. Matt Barkley and Ronald Johnson couldn't have looked much better; the defense, supposed to be the backbone of the squad, couldn't have looked much worse. Somewhat incredibly, Hawaii outgained USC 588 to 524 as three different Hawaii quarterbacks experienced success against the Trojan defense. "I don't think we did anything well, when you let somebody score 36 points on you," cornerback Shareece Wright said. "Thi...
5 hours agoTrojans not ready for prime time
Orange County Register — Observations and opinions on the start of the Lane Kiffin era at USC, wondering what East Coast insomniacs thought about the Trojans' 49-36 victory against Hawaii: •The game ended at 11:56 p.m. on the West Coast, which is nearly 3 a.m. in New York,...
7 hours agoWelcome To USC
Inside USC | Los Angeles Daily News — USC coach Lane Kiffin surrendered more points in a season opener than any coach except John Robinson, who gave up 46 against Missouri in 1976. Robinson lost that game but won every game afterward that season....
7 hours agoAloha! USC opens Kiffin era with victory against Hawaii
Los Angeles Daily News — Barkley, Johnson set school records, but defense leaves much to be desired.
13 hours agoPassing Mark
Inside USC | Los Angeles Daily News — Matt Barkley's five touchdowns tied a school record. So who else did it? Rodney Peete (once), Carson Palmer (once), Matt Leinart (three times) and Mark Sanchez (once)....
14 hours agoUSC Fatigue
Inside USC | Los Angeles Daily News — Hawaii coach Greg McMackin noted USC's lack of depth was part of his game plan. ``We planned on playing a lot of guys because as you 'SC was gassed. When we started running those running backs at them, we were...
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- UCLA primes for Thomas Inside UCLA | Los Angeles Daily News When the UCLA football team first met Daniel Thomas last season in Week 3, the Kansas State junior running back was somewhat of an unknown quantity. A junior college transfer from Northwest Mississippi Community College, Thomas burst on the scene...
- NFL: Jordan Kent among local players cut Portland Tribune NFL teams, who must reduce their rosters to 53 players each by Saturday, began chopping more players with state-of-0regon ties on Friday. Among those waived: Ex-UO receiver Jordan Kent, by St. Louis Former Oregon State linebacker Keaton Kristick and ex-Portland State tight end Tony Curtis, ...
- Frank Gansz, Jr. doesn't like new rule UCLA Blog | ESPN Los Angeles The opening kickoff Saturday--and all other kickoffs this season for that matter--will look a lot different than in the past thanks to an off-season decision by the NCAA to adopt the NFL policy banning wedge blocking. UCLA’s special teams coach Frank Gansz, Jr., is not too happy about it. A wedge is defined as more than two players lined up shoulder to shoulder in order to provide blocking for the return man. “To me it wasn’t very well thought out in doing it,” Gansz said. “It’s sort of a knee-jerk reaction.” The NCAA rules committee proposed the chang...
- Kelemete looking forward to first start at left tackle Husky Football Blog | Seattle Times Of the many subplots in tomorrow's game. one of the more subtle is the first start for Senio Kelemete (pictured right) at one of the most important positions --- left tackle. The junior started last year at guard before making the move to tackle in the spring, and has performed so well in the run-up to the season that UW coach Steve Sarkisian has taken to referring to him as an "all-conference player,'' --- often not even making the qualifier that he has yet to earn those honors. It appeared for a while as if this might not be the optimum beginning for Kelemete when he suffered a high ankle ...
- Arizona Wildcats at Toledo Rockets game chat Arizona Republic The Arizona Wildcats open their 2010 season on the road at the Toledo Rockets.