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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...

PASSING ATTACK When Georgia Tech has a more efficient day through the air, you know things are bad. Max Wittek's future looked very promising after his starting debut against Notre Dame. Now, not so much. Wittek, starting for the injured Matt Barkle...

EL PASO, Texas -- The USC Trojans will close out 2012 in a New Year's Eve matinee tilt against Georgia Tech in Monday's Hyundai Sun Bowl. And they'll be without quarterback Matt Barkley because of a sprained shoulder the senior signal-caller suff...

Coach Lane Kiffin is still hopeful that his star player, sophomore receiver Marqise Lee, will play in Monday's season-ending Sun Bowl for the Trojans.

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...

After all, that was it for Matt Barkley. His college career, we now know, ended for good on a vicious sack by Anthony Barr against the UCLA Bruins last month -- in a losing effort, no less. Barkley's first thought upon hitting the ground that day...

USC quarterback Matt Barkley won't play in the Hyundai Sun Bowl because of a shoulder injury, effectively ending his career.

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 -- USC Trojans coach Lane Kiffin will continue to call plays for the offense in 2013, he said Sunday. Kiffin, criticized for what some found to be uninventive play calling, had previously said he planned to re-evaluate the USC progra...

When Gerald Washington was a 23-year-old first-year tight end for the USC Trojans in 2006, he lived in an apartment off campus with four other football players: Vidal Hazelton, Anthony McCoy, Jeff Schweiger and Walker Lee Ashley. His roommates kn...

LOS ANGELES -- Here's a look at everything else that happened with the USC Trojans this week, including their first two bowl practices, an early trip to El Paso and more: Defensive coordinator plans USC coach Lane Kiffin won't begin the formal ...

LOS ANGELES -- Marqise Lee got back to the USC campus from a midweek trip to Disney World just as the final few Trojans were walking off the practice field Friday morning. The first person he saw was coach Lane Kiffin, who immediately cracked a jo...

LOS ANGELES -- Matt Barkley is expected to play, Monte Kiffin will still coach and USC will practice 13-15 times before its New Year's Eve appearance at the Hyundai Sun Bowl against ACC runner-up Georgia Tech. That's all the Trojans know for now -...

LOS ANGELES -- USC will play Georgia Tech in the Hyundai Sun Bowl on New Year's Eve, the school announced Sunday night. USC (7-5) started the season as the No. 1 team in the AP poll but plummeted out of the rankings after losing four of its final ...

CARSON, Calif. -- //player/19107/landon-donovan.html">Landon Donovan likes to talk about what he calls "being present" -- living in the moment and forgetting the past. He found himself doing the exact opposite for a half-hour on Saturday afternoon...