In the summer, USC ousted its basketball coach, Tim Floyd, over a variety of recruiting violations and acts in general poor taste. Well, while Floyd may have been a bit of a cheater, he proved he can also be a noble night...

You know how you get that feeling when you're lifting just a little bit too much weight that you really should just put it back down before you hurt yourself? Well, here's the reason why that defense mechanism kicks in....

Sure, you've seen the clip of the USC football team signing "Lean on Me" during summer training camp. And it's cool, we like it, too. We really do. But it's nothing compared to this clip of Carroll warming up for that sonata...

You may remember how we twice exposed some sexually ambigious moments from the USC football program last year. For a bunch of really big, really tough guys, they really seem to like to dance, and wiggle and, it turns out,...

Whether you like football or hate it, it's hard to argue that the NFL Draft does anything but steal all the pomp from a big weekend of NBA and NHL playoffs every April. It happened again this year, and the man in the middle...

It's not too surprising that USC Coach Pete Carroll would want quarterback Mark Sanchez to return for his senior season. After all, Sanchez only started for the Trojans for a single year, and he only looked spectacular -- and...

As pretty much every modestly tuned-in sports fan knows, ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews has become a very big deal. How big is she? Well, she's big enough that the simple fact she'll be on a sideline can raise ticket...

USC safety Taylor Mays is known as one of the hardest hitting safeties in college football, and he's all but a guaranteed first round draft pick in the upcoming NFL Draft. Well, the biggest reasons why focus on his ability to...

If you haven't seen Oklahoma sophomore forward Blake Griffin yet, well, you need to check him out. Not only is he a beast in the paint, both on the boards and on the scoresheet, he's plenty tough, too. Need proof? Take this...

If you're thinking "I've seen this one before!", it's probably because you have. The last time a top-ranked USC squad travelled to Corvallis, Ore., the found themselves stunned into silence after a loss that cost them a shot...

We're sure there's a perfectly good reason why USC coach Pete Carroll was completely shirtless, surrounded by 60 similarly shirtless young men of particularly athletic build. Actually, we even know what that reason is: He's a...

The L.A. Coliseum morphed into a makeshift baseball diamond for a few days in preparation for last Saturday's exhibition between the Dodgers and Red Sox, so USC football coach Pete Carroll and some of his staff did what you'd...

We know what you're thinking: THAT Lil Romeo? Yes, THAT Lil Romeo, the onetime rapper and son of rap tycoon Master P, is off to hoop it up at USC with current freshman sensation O.J. Mayo. Or he'll hope it up with O.J. Mayo...