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The USC football program will receive a two-year postseason ban, a reduction in scholarships and a forfeiture of wins from at least the 2004 season when the NCAA releases its sanctions on Thursday, a source told ESPN's Shelley Smith. The Los Angeles Times reported the NCAA sanctions include the loss of more than 20 scholarships. ESPN The Magazine's Bruce Feldman confirmed the two-year postseason ban and a reduction in scholarships from a second USC source. USC will respond Thursday to the NCAA's findings following its investigation into possible violations by the Trojans' football and men's basketball programs, a source told...

A two-year bowl ban and a loss of more than 20 football scholarships are among the sanctions that the NCAA has dealt USC, a source with knowledge of the situation said Wednesday. The NCAA, the governing body for collegiate sports, informed USC of its decision after a four-year investigation regarding allegations centered on former football player Reggie Bush and former basketball player O.J. Mayo. The NCAA could make its decision public as early as today. USC officials would not confirm that the school had received the NCAA's report. Asked if USC had heard from the NCAA, Athletic Director Mike Garrett...

The University of Southern California football and basketball programs will learn whether they are guilty of NCAA violations on Friday, according to a report on ESPN.com. The NCAA infractions committee plans to release its findings following an investigation and February hearing in which USC officials, including former basketball coach Tim Floyd and current football coach Lane Kiffin, responded to allegations of impropriety.

Black lawmakers are urging black football recruits to reconsider playing for the University of South Carolina because the school may lose its lone African-American trustee. Top black state legislators said Wednesday that members of the black community are calling recruits. Black caucus chairman Rep. David Weeks says they should know some people in the state want black people to play sports but not serve as trustees. The flap involves an African-American board member whose election next month by the legislature is in doubt, according to the Associated Press. Leah B. Moody is up for re-election next month against Alton Hyatt,...

The next Tiger Woods? The next Lebron James? Everyone is always looking for the next phenom. And that's why you might want to learn the name David Sills. He is a seventh grader who just gave a verbal commitment to the University of Southern California to be their quarterback - in 2015. The six-foot-tall 13-year-old is a wunderkind in the eyes of his personal coach Steve Clarkson, who has mentored top college quarterbacks Jimmy Clausen and current USC star Matt Barkley. The shocking commitment of such a young player is more common in sports that are less physically demanding than...

Lane Kiffin will be the next USC coach, Rivals.com has confirmed. Kiffin will replace Pete Carroll, who left to take the Seattle Seahawks head coaching job. Kiffin coached Tennessee for one year, leading the Vols to a 7-6 record a trip to the Chick-fil-A Bowl.

Pete Carroll is off to the NFL He will meet today with USC players and then begin his transition back to pro football, where he last coached in 1999. I spoke with Carroll early this morning about his decision to leave USC and his new job with the Seattle Seahawks. On the possibility of landing what he considered a perfect NFL opportunity: “I had given up on it, but it came out of nowhere.” On whether he left because of possible NCAA sanctions: “Not in any way. Because I know where we stand. It’s just a process we have to...

Seattle Seahawks coach Jim Mora has been fired, the first coach in team history to be let go after one season, and league sources say longtime USC coach Pete Carroll is being targeted as Mora's replacement. Mora attended a meeting Friday morning with management, at which time he was told by Seahawks CEO Tod Leiweke that he did not win enough games to save his job. The Seahawks ended the season on a four-game losing streak to finish 5-11. Mora was shocked by his dismissal, believing that when he was called to Lieweke's office that he they would be in...

USC this morning announced it has implemented self-imposed sanctions on its men's basketball program for NCAA rule violations related to O.J. Mayo. USC will be banned from the postseason this season, including participation in the Pacific 10 Conference basketball tournament. USC will also lose one scholarship for this season and next, and its coaches face limitations to recruiting.

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If the sign of a great artist is not what you can do with a brush, a palette and the French countryside, but with a set of finger paints, then consider Pete Carroll and Rick Neuheisel the second coming of Monet and Manet. Talk about impressionists. Carroll and Neuheisel took one of the most mundane games in a storied rivalry, one that for much of the country was played into the wee hours of Sunday morning and had nothing at stake except perhaps a berth in the Poinsettia Bowl, and made sure it wouldn't be forgotten.There were 17 penalties, five...

LOS ANGELES -- Malcolm Smith returned one of Southern California's three interceptions 62 yards for an early touchdown, and the Trojans (No. 20 ESPN/USA Today, No. 24 AP) regained their defensive pride while maintaining their city dominance with a 28-7 victory over UCLA on Saturday night. Matt Barkley's 48-yard touchdown pass to Damian Williams with 44 seconds left led to an ebullient USC celebration that nearly set off an all-out fight between the teams in their 79th crosstown showdown.

BRAVO STANFORD, you guys laid waste to the Trojans today, WELL DONE!

LOS ANGELES — Matt Barkley's first pass at USC went for minus-2 yards. His first four series with the Trojans resulted in two fumbles, two punts and a 3-0 deficit to San Jose State. A typical freshman quarterback surely would have tensed up at this burgeoning Coliseum calamity. Instead, Barkley showed why coach Pete Carroll insists there's nothing ordinary about his teenage starter — although the Trojans will find out a whole lot more next week at Ohio State. Barkley passed for 233 yards after a slow start to his USC debut, and the No. 4 Trojans' fleet of tailbacks...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The second suspect in the hit-and-run crash that killed a USC student is out on jail. "At this point I do not understand our justice system," said Carmen Bachan, mother. Carmen Bachan is grieving and frustrated. Her 18-year-old daughter, Adrianna, was killed in a heinous hit-and-run. Fellow USC student Marcus Garfinkle was critically injured. Now just one of the suspect's who was just arrested is free on bail.

Katie Couric’s Curveballs & Softballs by: Malcolm A. Kline, April 22, 2009 The University of Southern California likes broadcast journalist Katie Couric’s pitches, provided that the CBS anchor lobs hardballs at conservatives and softballs at liberals. Specifically, Couric baited Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on her foreign policy experience when the Republican was John McCain’s running mate in his unsuccessful quest for the U. S. presidency. Couric’s colleagues lionized her for the exchange when they had previously dismissed the former Today anchor as a lightweight. Still, none questioned her failure, in an interview with Palin’s opposite number, then-U. S. Senator Joe...

click to listen, or use widget Link: See what just happened to videographer, John Ziegler, 4/15, outside an event awarding Katie Couric for her interviewing prowess, during the presidential campaign. Sarah Palin got it then. Palin sympathizer, Ziegler gets it here. You see, John Ziegler is producer of "Media Malpractice; How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted." Keep that in mind, as you watch what happened to him.

Los Angeles, CA (AP) -- A man suspected of pulling a badly injured USC student off a car windshield after a deadly hit-and-run accident was arrested while trying to cross back into the United States from Mexico, police said Saturday. Josue (HOH'-sway) Luna, 32, of Los Angeles, was detained by federal agents at the San Ysidro border crossing at about 5:30 p.m. Friday after his name prompted a computer alert that he was wanted in Los Angeles, LAPD Officer April Harding said. Luna was driven back to Los Angeles by LAPD officers and jailed on suspicion of being an accessory...

Video of the events before John Ziegler was detained at USC, his clash with security and Press Relations, he blows holes in their arguments in seconds..