By Sam Farmer
Matt Leinart is headed for Pete Carroll's Seahawks, where he might be No. 3 on the depth chart. Bengals say Carson Palmer has retired.
By Gary Klein
Football coach speaks at Pacific 12 Conference media day about a Trojans squad coming off an 8-5 season.
By Matt Stevens
Daniel Kosakowski, formerly of UCLA, gets first pro win at Farmers Classic. USC's Steve Johnson loses, but he might return to Trojans.
By David Wharton
Commissioner Larry Scott prefers to talk about new members Utah and Colorado, a rich new TV deal and a new league championship game, rather than troubles at primary football powers USC and Oregon.
By Bill Plaschke
USC tailback broke no laws with his ill-advised, inappropriate remarks to TMZ.com, but decision to suspend him from all team activities sends right message. These things used to be swept under the rug.
By Gary Klein
Tyler, the team's leading rusher last season, is punished for what the school deems inappropriate comments, some of them sexually suggestive, that were caught on video and aired on a website.
By Jerry Crowe
Schindler helped USC win a national championship in football in 1939 and played a stunt double in "The Wizard of Oz." But he bypassed the NFL and Hollywood for a career in coaching and teaching.
By Matt Stevens
Athletic intelligence is separate from classroom intelligence, and some players have both. The dumb jock isn't going to get very far.
The Lakers, natch, are No. 1 in Dufresne's rankings, followed by the Angels, Dodgers and USC football. But the big question is, where do Mater Dei High and the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes rank?
By Sam Farmer
Lonnie White, who played for the Trojans from 1982-86 and covered sports for the Los Angeles Times for 20 years after that, says he got $14,000 while at USC, most of it coming from the sale of season tickets.
By Gary Klein
Fallout from football and basketball violations has included stiff NCAA sanctions, a diminished product on field and court, and revenue losses that are hard to calculate but are in the tens of million
By Bill Plaschke
He is quietly resigned to accept his fate after an NCAA hearing on his tenure at Tennessee, but the football coach shows he has moved on and grown up. 'A lot has changed,' he says.
By Chris Dufresne
The Bowl Championship Series vacates the Trojans' title-game victory over Oklahoma, a move that was regarded as an inevitable outcome of the Reggie Bush case that led to NCAA sanctions against USC.
Johnson defeats Tennessee's Rhyne Williams, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1, to become the Trojans' first singles champion since 1996. Last week, Johnson helped USC to its third consecutive NCAA team title.
