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USC questions everything after Alabama loss Home → Sports Southe Califoia quarterback Max Browne scrambles away from Alabama defensive lineman Dalvin Tomlinson during the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) Advertisement Digital & Driveway Delivery - 50% Off About the Author Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Former USC coach Steve Sarkisian is retuing to college football. Sarkisian will join the staff at Alabama as an offensive analyst, the team confirmed Monday. “We’re glad to have him as a part of the organization,” Alabama coach Nick Saban told reporters at a news conference. “Hopefully, he’ll be able to get back on his feet professionally and this will be beneficial to him.” USC fired Sarkisian after five games last October following a string of alcohol-related incidents and other behavior. Sarkisian, 42, filed a multi-million dollar wrongful termination lawsuit against the university in December, alleging he was not allowed to seek treatment for alcoholism. In the complaint, he said he was ...

By Joey Kaufman [email protected] @JoeyRKaufman on Twitter ARLINGTON, TEXAS >> Early in the fourth quarter on Saturday night, Lane Kiffin offered high-fives to a procession of players from Alabama’s special teams unit who retued from the field. As he met the last of them, tight end Brandon Greene, he hugged Greene by extending his right arm around his neck and pulling him in close. The two enjoyed a brief moment of embrace as Alabama had just pushed its lead over USC to 39 points. Kiffin smiled. He then strode along the sideline. “For him, being successful in his new role, it’s great to see,” senior ruing back Justin Davis said. It was seemingly a moment of joy for the offensive coord...

Here’s some notes and observations on the eve of the season opener against Alabama: USC quarterback Max Browne candidly admits he has no idea what he will feel when he walks on to the field Saturday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. “I don’t know. I’m sure it will be a lot of jitters,” Browne said. “A lot of nerves. But I think at the end of the day, a lot of excitement. I’m ready to go. I’m ready to finally play ball. But once again I don’t know what to really expect.” Browne said it sometimes felt like his first start would never happen. “I’ve almost been here for four calendar years now,” he said. “If you tell me that my first start would come this late, obviously back then it mak...

Suspended USC linebacker Osa Masina is under investigation by the Cottonwood Heights police department in Utah for an alleged sexual assault, a spokesman confirmed Tuesday. The investigation was first reported by a Fox affiliate television station in Salt Lake City. The alleged incident occurred in Salt Lake County in July. USC coach Clay Helton aounced on Monday that Masina would not travel with the Trojans for their season opener on Saturday against top-ranked Alabama in Arlington, Texas, due to an unspecified violation of team rules. Investigators from the Los Angeles police department were on campus last week and are working with Cottonwood Heights police on the investigation, said Cott...

LOS ANGELES >> USC reserve inside linebacker Osa Masina will not travel with the team for the season opener against Alabama because of an unspecified violation of team rules, Coach Clay Helton aounced Monday on the Trojans live weekly radio show. Masina, a sophomore, was co-listed with Quinton Powell as the backup for Mitchael Hutchings on the team’s depth chart released last week. Last season, he had 25 tackles in 12 games. It was expected he would see a role this season. In training camp, Masina worked in with the first-team defense at times. He is the second USC player to be suspended for the first game against Alabama, following Isaiah Langley, a reserve coerback. Langley was arre...

It’s 33 steps to the top of the observation tower sitting by the football fields in Tuscaloosa, Ala. It long marked Bear Bryant’s perch. Bryant routinely gazed out from the tower to watch practices, images of him peering down serving as some of the lasting snapshots of a legendary coach who led the Crimson Tide to six national championships in a 25-year tenure. Then they took it down. When Bryant retired after the 1982 season, successor Ray Perkins no longer saw its need. The practice tower was dismantled in his first season. “Some felt it bordered on near sacrilege to remove the edifice,” the Tuscaloosa News reported at the time. A few years later, when Perkins had left and Bill Curry step...

LOS ANGELES >> The last Saturday before USC’s season opener against Alabama included a 50-play, full-pads scrimmage at an off-campus location. The Trojans ran 40 plays of offense and defense, with 10 more on special teams. It featured thud tackling, where players do not bring each other to the ground. To simulate a typical game week, they practiced Friday, stayed together in a hotel, held meetings, went through a walk through Saturday moing and took a bus to the field. “We tried to make it the most realistic thing you could,” USC coach Clay Helton said. Helton did not specify where the team held its scrimmage, citing compliance reasons. Max Browne, the recently named starting quarterb...

USC will name a starting quarterback two weeks before its season opener against Alabama, Coach Clay Helton said Thursday at Pac-12 Media Days. Helton plans to release a two-deep depth chart when fall camp ends after 18 practices, settling at that point on Max Browne or Sam Daold, the two signal callers who began vying for the starting job in the spring. “I think it’ll be sufficient time to name a starting quarterback,” said Helton, whose team is replacing a three-year starter in Cody Kessler. The Trojans open against the Crimson Tide on Sept. 3 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The first-year coach opted against picking between Browne, a redshirt junior, and Daold, a redshirt freshma...

USC will name a starting quarterback two weeks before its season opener against Alabama, Coach Clay Helton said Thursday at Pac-12 Media Days. Helton plans to release a two-deep depth chart when fall camp ends after 18 practices, settling at that point on Max Browne or Sam Daold, the two signal callers who began vying for the starting job in the spring. “I think it’ll be sufficient time to name a starting quarterback,” said Helton, whose team is replacing a three-year starter in Cody Kessler. The Trojans open against the Crimson Tide on Sept. 3 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The first-year coach opted against picking between Browne, a redshirt junior, and Daold, a redshirt freshma...