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Our countdown of the Pac-10's top 25 players continues. No. 21. Matt Barkley, QB, USC 2009 numbers: Barkley ranked third in the conference in passing efficiency, completing nearly 60 percent of his passes. Despite missing one game due to injury...

LOS ANGELES -- When Pete Carroll was hired at USC in December of 2000, Matt Barkley was 10 years old. While the shock of Carroll's departure to the Seattle Seahawks hit Trojans fans hard -- weren't they going to "win forever" together? -- imagine wha...

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? Former Arizona defensive tackle Earl Mitchell looks to the NFL draft. Lots of Pa...

It appears Lane Kiffin isn't afraid to try new things, and that in itself is a new thing for the USC offense, which looked a bit stale last fall under coordinator Jeremy Bates. Consider this: USC's new "Diego" offense with fancypants true freshman...

Pete Carroll is officially taking Jeremy Bates and Ken Norton Jr. with him to coach the Seahawks.

In a sprawling 20-minute, stream-of-consciousness monologue, Pete Carroll was full of "thank yous" and nostalgia as he said goodbye to USC during a Monday evening press conference at the school. Carroll said he's breaking up with USC not because o...

Quarterback Matt Barkley intends to stay at USC despite the departure of head coach Pete Carroll and offensive coordinator Jeremy Bates.

Pete Carroll has resigned as the football coach of the USC Trojans, the Los Angeles Daily News reported Sunday.

ESPN's Chris Mortensen is reporting mutual interest between USC coach Pete Carroll and the Seattle Seahawks, which fired coach Jim Mora Friday. This paragraph is telling: Carroll did not return messages, but a league source said Carroll is inte...

USC offensive coordinator Jeremy Bates is a candidate for the same position with the Chicago Bears, according to ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter. There was intense speculation when USC's disappointing season ended that Bates might be headed back to...

Disappointment? Distractions? Declining performance? Controversy and allegations? Criticism and even ridicule? All are words or phrases one could associate with USC's football program at present. Yet none seems to touch Matt Barkley. Jo...

There are only three jobs available to an elf. The first is making shoes at night while, you know, while the old cobbler sleeps. You can bake cookies in a tree. As you can imagine, it's, uh, dangerous having an oven in an oak tree during the dry seas...

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to des...

Posted by ESPN.com's Ted Miller Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme. Arizona is worried about the Wild Bea...

Posted by ESPN.com's Ted Miller Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill. Arizona's offensive line has thrived despite a rotating ...

Posted by ESPN.com's Ted Miller The Bay Area is the center of the Pac-10 universe on Saturday, though Oregon State's visit to Arizona State feels underrated to me. Oh, and Washington heads east to take on Notre Dame and the cardiac Fighting Irish....