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When something seemingly loud happens, we can't help but stare. The momentum of attention, which of course can be monetized by the media, creates a hungry void that is filled with endless analysis. The end-result is a suffusion of broad statements of...

Today we ranked the Pac-12 coaching jobs -- an inexact science to say the least. ESPN.com's Mark Schlabach took another angle: Underrated coaching jobs. And he tapped two from the Pac-12: Stanford and Washington. Here's what he had to say: S...

Our theme today, as part of our "Love to hate" week at ESPN.com, is "Left in the lurch." This is about coaches who bailed out on a Pac-12 program at an unexpected or awkward time. We're not including Urban Meyer leaving Utah for Florida or Jim Harbau...

Not unlike his pop -- "Playoffs? Playoffs?!" -- Jim Mora can be kind of a grump. Not in a "I hate the world" sort of way. More in a football coach-y way. Which is why I got a kick out of Jon Gold's description of Mora from spring practice No. 1 fo...

It wasn't random that Jim Mora, a NFL coaching lifer, ended up in college football. It was his specific plan. When his ill-fated, one-year tenure as the Seattle Seahawks head coach ended, he almost immediately started eyeballing the college game. ...

Sports Illustrated's Stewart Mandel rated the coaching hires across the country this week, and he's clearly split on how the Pac-12 did. He likes Mike Leach to Washington State - a lot - and Rich Rodriguez to Arizona. He's not so impressed with To...

First reported weeks ago, it's now official: Noel Mazzone will be UCLA's new offensive coordinator after serving in the same post at Arizona State the previous two years. The Bruins also announced the hiring of Jeff Ulbrich as special teams coordi...

Jim L. Mora, a two-time NFL head coach with almost no college experience, is UCLA's new football coach, according to ESPNLosAngeles.com. And UCLA made the official announcement a short time later. Mora, 50, is currently an analyst for the NFL N...

Black Monday continues with Arizona State firing Dennis Erickson. On a day that the Pac-12 wanted it's first Pac-12 championship game to lead the news, two firings do instead, including UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel, who will coach in said championshi...

A quick look at the two new coaches in the Pac-12: Colorado's Jon Embree and Stanford's David Shaw. Embree and Shaw share some similarities. Both are first-time head coaches. Both played for the program they now coach. Both coached in the NFL. Bot...

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...

Damon Huard wants your money, Washington fans. The former Huskies and NFL quarterback has been hired as a "major gifts officer" for his former school's booster club, the "Tyee Club." A 1995 UW graduate, Huard was a three-year starter for the Hu...

Mosi Tatupu, a fullback on USC's 1974 national championship football team who played 14 years in the NFL, died on Tuesday in Attleboro, Mass. He was 54. The cause of his death has yet to be determined. Tatupu's son, Lofa, was a standout linebac...

When Lane Kiffin bolted Tennessee for USC, it was the second biggest -- and most controversial -- story of the offseason. The biggest story, of course, was Pete Carroll leaving the Trojans for the Seattle Seahawks. Kiffin, 34, was mostly hammer...

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...

USC just sent out a press release on Pete Carroll becoming the Seattle Seahawks new coach. Based the comments, the breakup is being spun forward as one with mostly good feelings from both sides. Here's what Carroll said. "The nine years at U...