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While a lot of Pac-12 schools have hit home runs with recent coaching hires, history suggests that there's no failsafe formula to ensure success.

Story | Conversation | January 20, 2013

What does 2013 hold for the Pac-12? If you buy Mark Schlabach's early Top 25, then it looks like a pretty good start for the conference. Schlabach taps five Pac-12 teams in his 2013 Top 25 -- including two of the top three. Oregon checks in at No....

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...

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 -- 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 ...

Steve Bisheff looks at Stanford's success against USC and how it helps other teams as well as other thoughts around the sports world.

Story | Conversation | September 20, 2012

There are five new quarterbacks in the Pac-12 this season: Taylor Kelly at Arizona State, Jordan Webb at Colorado, Marcus Mariota at Oregon, Josh Nunes at Stanford and Brett Hundley at UCLA. Our question this week: Which of them will have the most...

As Brett Forrest writes in ESPN The Magazine, nobody goes deep better than Robert Woods, Marqise Lee and their QB Matt Barkley, who opted to stick around for his senior season and USC's entry back into the BCS pool.

Staying home was a perfect decision for current USC quarterback Matt Barkley. For future USC QB Max Browne and several others in the Elite 11, leaving their respective states is the way to go. So how does one come to that decision?

USC wide receiver Marqise Lee, who has a history of being overlooked and overcoming, vaults into national awareness.

Take a shot at writing a cartoon caption. Page 2 cartoonist Kurt Snibbe will offer up a blank cartoon each weekday morning, and he will fill in the blank with our favorite reader submission at the end of the business day. So please, by all means, sh...

Nick Perry, a two-year starter at Southern California, will forgo his senior season and declare for the NFL draft, sources said on Friday.

Todd McShay's updated rankings of the top 32 NFL draft prospects include four new faces, while two big-name QBs are move in opposite directions.

Story | Conversation | October 26, 2011

Steve Muench breaks down five Pac-12 safeties who could come off the board in April, including a pair from Los Angeles.

Blog | Conversation | October 11, 2011

The Pac-12 sometimes flies under the radar, but the conference is loaded with potential high picks in the 2012 NFL draft.

Blog | Conversation | August 26, 2011

Page 2 peppers USC Trojans coach Lane Kiffin with a slew of offbeat questions.