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LOS ANGELES >> Pete Carroll accomplished many things at USC and one of them was owning November with a 28-1 record. If USC coach Clay Helton wants to tu this season into something more than quarterback Sam Daold’s fantastic freshman season, he needs a November similar to Carroll. It’s not unthinkable with three teams on USC’s remaining schedule (Oregon, UCLA, Notre Dame) currently sporting mediocre 3-5 records. The only tough game appears to be at No. 4-ranked Washington, which is 8-0. Thi...

LOS ANGELES >> USC running back Justin Davis, who has a high ankle sprain, will not play on Saturday at Arizona, Trojans head coach Clay Helton announced. Davis was not at practice this week. “He’s still being very tender on the ankle,” Helton said. Through six games, the 6-foot-1 senior leads the Trojans in rushing with 476 yards on the ground and two touchdowns. He had 341 yards in the past three games, including consecutive 100-yard rushing efforts against Utah and Arizona State. Davis ...

LOS ANGELES >> USC junior center Toa Lobendahn will miss the rest of the season after tearing both the medial collateral ligament and anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, USC football coach Clay Helton said Thursday. Lobendahn missed the second half of last season following surgery to repair a to ACL in his left knee. He also had surgery on his right knee at La Habra High School. Lobendahn sustained the most recent knee injury in the first quarter against Alabama last Saturday, th...

LOS ANGELES >> Ronald Jones played high school football 51 miles from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, where he will line up in the Trojans' backfield on Saturday night."It's really a homecoming," Jones said.The sophomore running back from McKinney, Texas, said this week that he has been lobbying teammates for extra tickets for family and friends for the season opener against Alabama....

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 announced 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 ca...

LOS ANGELES — On Sunday, as USC prepared to enter its first “mock game week,” it released a two-deep chart and seemed to have settled on most of the position battles from camp. Some, though, will carry over into the remaining days before the season opens against Alabama on Sept. 3 in Arlington, Texas. Of particular note, the Trojans remain in search of a starting left guard. That spot will fall on the shoulders of either redshirt sophomore Chris Brown or junior Damien Mama, who were co-listed th...