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EL PASO, Texas -- The USC Trojans ended 2012 with the opposite of a bang -- a 21-7 upset loss to under-.500 Georgia Tech in the Hyundai Sun Bowl. The same Trojans offense that started off the season as hyped as any team in the country failed to p...

EL PASO, Texas -- High winds are expected during Monday's Hyundai Sun Bowl game, with 20- to 30-mile-per-hour gusts currently projected for the El Paso area and even higher ones possible at the high-elevation Sun Bowl. USC Trojans coach Lane Kiff...

LOS ANGELES -- Saturday was Monte Kiffin's final practice on the USC campus in charge of the USC Trojans defense. But he didn't want to talk about it as he walked off the Trojans' practice field for the final time. He did, however, want to talk a...

LOS ANGELES -- Georgia Tech, USC's opponent in the approaching Sun Bowl, typically either scores a lot of points or very few. So Nickell Robey, the Trojans' top corner, expects the New Year's Eve game in El Paso, Texas to go in one of two directio...

LOS ANGELES -- Departing USC Trojans assistant coach Monte Kiffin made the decision to leave the team entirely on his own, he said Friday. Kiffin said his son Lane -- his boss and USC's head coach -- had nothing to do with his resignation, which ...

USC assistant football coach Monte Kiffin will resign after USC's upcoming bowl game in order to pursue opportunities in the NFL, he announced Thursday.

LOS ANGELES -- Matt Barkley was a potential top-five pick in this year's NFL draft. Then, once he announced he was staying for his senior season, he was the consensus No. 1 overall pick for the 2013 draft. Now, according to ESPN NFL draft exper...

LOS ANGELES -- Which USC junior star announced in Heritage Hall last December that he'd be passing up the NFL draft and returning for his senior season to finish off some "unfinished business?" Well, yeah, Matt Barkley, of course. But safety T....

LOS ANGELES -- By all accounts, Dion Bailey is a great collegiate player. Only 17 games into his college career, the USC sophomore linebacker has shown an innate ability to make big hits and big interceptions without huge missteps in the form of p...

LOS ANGELES -- Did Lane Kiffin mean the old first day or the new first day? That was the natural question after the USC Trojans' coach said this week that he thought his top two tight ends, Xavier Grimble and Randall Telfer, were both future first...

The No. 2 USC Trojans play their first road game of the 2012 season against Syracuse (12:30 p.m. PT) on Saturday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Here are five things to watch: 1. A different approach in the backfield. Who could have pr...

Most of media day tends to be a gigantic, drawn-out rehashing of a bunch of things attentive fans and reporters already know. The questions asked of coaches on the podium are often strikingly similar to the questions asked of them three months ear...

Ex-USC defensive lineman Armond Armstead has finally found a suitor, signing on to play for the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts, according to a report in his hometown Sacramento Bee. Armstead was not cleared to suit up for the Trojans...

Dick Beam, an assistant coach on a pair of USC's national championship football teams and later an NFL front-office executive, died of cancer on Thursday in Corona, USC announced Friday. He was 75. Beam spent four seasons under head coach John McK...

Former USC and NFL linebacker Junior Seau died Wednesday at his Oceanside home from a gunshot wound in his chest, authorities said. He was 43. He is remembered primarily for his professional successes in his 20-year NFL career, most of which was s...

Six 2011 USC Trojans have latched on to NFL teams via the undrafted free-agent wire as of Sunday morning. Those include defensive tackle DaJohn Harris, who signed with the Tennessee Titans, and linebacker Chris Galippo, who agreed to terms with th...