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Women's Golf Steamrolls To NCAA Title

Conquest Chronicles — Last year, the USC Women's Golf team was achingly close to their program's third national championship, but Alabama denied them the title on the final hole, and the Women of Troy fell short by a single stroke.This year was different. VERY different.After finishing the first round in a tie for the lead with San Jose State, USC proceeded to dominate the field in unprecedented fashion, winning the title by a whopping 21 strokes. Their finishing score of 19-under-par smashed the record for a finishing score at an NCAA championship by 15 strokes, and in the second round, they broke the cham...

May 24, 2013

2011 Tax Returns show high salaries for Haden and Kiffin

Conquest Chronicles — In a world of coaches making big time money I am not really surprised that Lane Kiffin is reported making 2.6 million based on a report in USAToday. Southern California athletic director Pat Haden received more than $2.2 million in compensation in the 2011 calendar year, according to the university's latest federal tax return. The total makes Haden the nation's highest paid AD. [...] This is the first time that Haden's compensation has appeared on USC's tax return. Haden replaced Mike Garrett as AD in August 2010. Non-profit organizations must provide calendar-year reporting of t...

May 18, 2013

USC Athletics All-Sports Highlight

Conquest Chronicles — A great video from this past seasons sports highlights. FIGHT ON!

May 18, 2013

USC Women's Water Polo - 2013 NCAA Champs!

Conquest Chronicles — This was a real barn burner going 5OT. Here is the write up from the DN. USC's Anni Espar delivered the winning goal for the Trojans after 45 minutes, 47 seconds of water polo to beat Stanford 10-9 in the third sudden-death period, winning the NCAA championship Sunday for the top-seeded Women of Troy in Boston. The match was not only the first NCAA women's water polo final to go to overtime, it went through the two 3-minute overtime periods and two 3-minute sudden-death periods before Espar's shot gave USC a stunning and exhausting victory and its fourth national championship. "This g...

May 13, 2013

NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship Thread: USC vs. Stanford

Conquest Chronicles — This weekend, the #1 USC Women's Water Polo team traveled to Harvard to compete for the NCAA championship, and after steamrolling their way to the final, they will compete their program's fourth national title against a team they expected to meet here from the start of the season: the Stanford Cardinal. All season long, it's been USC and Stanford vying for the top spot, with everyone else a distant third. Both teams' losses have come at the hands of each other. USC (26-1) lost a home game on April 13 by a score of 6-4. It is the only game this season in which USC scored less than nine ...

May 12, 2013

Kirby Burnham and Stevi Robinson, USC women's Sand Volleyball Champions

Conquest Chronicles — Congrats Ladies!!

May 7, 2013

Concern Trolling USC's QB History

Conquest Chronicles — You can tell its the off season... You have to shake your head at some of these knuckle heads in the press. The lack of production of USC's quarterbacks in the Super Bowl have the concern trolls out in full force. Pete Carroll was asked a simple question: What happened to Matt Leinart in the NFL? Why did his career crash and burn? "Stupid question," Carroll said with a smile. Carroll was at the Indianapolis scouting combine, in a corner of the RCA Dome, and launched into an impassioned defense of Leinart and, then, another USC quarterback, Matt Barkley, who w...

May 6, 2013

Matt Barkley News

Conquest Chronicles — With the NFL draft in the rear view mirror stories are starting to to come out about the reactions to the draft. Obviously Barkley's slide was the big news... Here are some links. Matt Barkley's NFL draft tumble just part of process - ESPNWhen something seemingly loud happens, we can't help but stare. Barkley’s fall is Eagles’ gain - The Register-Guard The quarterback’s fall helps Philadelphia and Chip Kelly, which rated him in the top 50 Who Crowned Matt Barkley?There has been some buzz since the Eagles chose Matt Barkley in the fourth round of the NFL Draft on Saturday, as you might ...

May 1, 2013

Joey Kaufman says good-bye

Conquest Chronicles — If you haven't read this then you should read it NOW! One of our own is moving on to bigger and better things. In full disclosure, I had an interest in sports journalism from a young age, mostly because I discovered I was about a foot shy of ever having any chance to play center for the Los Angeles Lakers. Though I had little idea of what exactly journalism entailed, I wanted to work in sports. Watching Mom read the paper, though, firmly cemented the goal of sports writing in my brain, and it gave me a greater purpose. I too would deliver the news to readers. I would tell them a...

April 30, 2013

Women's Water Polo Earns Top Seed For NCAA Tournament

Conquest Chronicles — After winning at a preseason tournament and losing during the regular season, the USC women's water polo team claimed a decisive victory in their third meeting with the Stanford Cardinal and in doing so claimed the MPSF championship and the top seed in the NCAA tournament. After defeating Cal State Bakersfield and Arizona State to reach the final, USC found themselves facing the only team to have bested them this season. USC lost to Stanford at home two weeks ago by a score of 6-4. It was their worst offensive performance of the season, but this past Sunday, the Women of Troy would not...

April 30, 2013

Men's Tennis Loses Pac-12 Title To UCLA

Conquest Chronicles — #5 USC made an attempt to win its second consecutive Pac-12 men's tennis team title, but was stopped in the final by the top-ranked UCLA Bruins, who earned four straight singles points to take their program's first conference tournament championship. USC now enters the NCAA tournament with a 23-4 record, with three of those losses handed to them by their crosstown rivals. The final went much like the last Trojans-Bruins match 10 days before, with USC winning the doubles point via two 8-6 decisions. Sophomore Yannick Hanfmann then earned a second point for the Trojans by taking down UCL...

April 30, 2013

Women's Tennis Wins Pac-12 Doubles Title

Conquest Chronicles — After leading #5 USC to an undefeated record in conference play to win the Pac-12 team championship, the Women of Troy's top players, freshman Kaitlyn Christian and sophomore Sabrina Santamaria, won the doubles tournament at the Pac-12 championships in Ojai by defeating UCLA's Courtney Dolehide and Pamela Montez 6-3, 6-3. Christian and Santamaria are now back-to-back doubles champions in the Pac-12 and ITA indoor tournaments. They were almost eliminated in the opening round by a UCLA pair, but prevailed in a tiebreaker to take a 9-8 victory. They now have a 30 match winning streak and ...

April 29, 2013

2013 NFL Draft Wrap Up

Conquest Chronicles — When you look back on this years draft it is hard not to be disappointed in how we all thought things should have went. Hindsight tells us that expectations were not at all realistic for Matt Barkley, but Robert Woods T.J. McDonald and Khaled Holmes were all drafted. Maybe not where we have wanted them to go, but getting drafted no matter where is a memory these young men will never forget. More on Barkley: Barkley Learns That Bad Things Can Come to Those Who Wait On the other hand, things turned out different for the other four. Nickell Robey, Jawanza Starling, Curtis McNeal...

April 28, 2013

The Fate of Mark Sanchez

Conquest Chronicles — You gotta love the mess that is the New York Jets. These guys can't get out their own way. We can discuss from time on end the struggles of Mark Sanchez the past few seasons. One thing I won't do is rehash Mark's departure from USC. The perceived issues that Pete Carroll alluded to went out the window when Sanchez went to his second straight AFC Title game. After two seasons in the league I have a hard time justifying Sanchez staying for another season at USC. Though the way the dominoes have fallen may have had an affect on this years draft with respect to Matt Barkley. But that is wh...

April 28, 2013

USC falls to UCLA in Track

Conquest Chronicles — Well, this is disappointing... The number five was the common denominator Saturday for the UCLA men's and women's track and field teams. The men's team completed a perfect dual-meet season with an 85-78 upset of No. 9 USC, with the women's team ending a five-year losing streak with a 90-73 win over the No. 23 Trojans at Loker Stadium. It's the first time since 2006 both Bruin teams swept the annual dual meet and the first time since 2005 both achieved the feat on the road. UCLA men's team swept three distance races and three field events, including the pole vault, shot put and d...

April 28, 2013