After being jolted, USC feeling jilted
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PASADENA, Calif. -- Southern California's dejected players trudged off the Rose Bowl field, oblivious to the celebration going on around them.
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PULLMAN -â Last week, in studying USC game film, Cougar coaches thought they found a chink in the national championsâ armor. And not just any chink -â one with the potential, right from the get go, to
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You can hear the sounds, and feel the energy, the tension, and the anticipation. College football will decide conference championships and bowl bids tomorrow. That's the main story.
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Three weeks have passed in the college football season, and the landscape has been scattered with bizarre upsets and serious struggles for traditional powers.
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&quot;We control our destiny, unlike last year where we didn&#39;t know,&quot; USC defensive tackle Shaun Cody said this week. &quot;We were hoping on a prayer things would fall into place.
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LOS ANGELES -- They were playing the role of spoilers, heavy underdogs to a Southern California team that wants to prove it is the best college football team in the country this season.
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The opinion widely held is that the USC Trojans are the top team in college football. To support that argument, USC heads into its toughest stretch of 2004 Saturday at Stanford.
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The oranges flew from the stands onto the turf and exploded on impact as a topsy-turvy game came to a wild end with USC&#39;s national title hopes still thriving.
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The best athletes  can sense every  play before it even  happens. Coaches  have long assumed  that this magical  "field sense" was  unteachable. Maybe  they were wrong.
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TJ Houshmandzadeh knows exactly what the New York Giants were feeling Sunday afternoon. He has felt the same disappointment, the same bewilderment and shook his head the way the Giants were in their locker room.
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There have been times this season when Southern California has been labeled sluggish and unimpressive.
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If top-ranked Southern California looked like it was playing in a fog during much of its 28-13 victory over Oregon State late Saturday night in Corvallis, no one could blame the Trojans.
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Better come focused, not drift. Remember the last visit here and recognize exactly what could be at stake. It&#39;s the new USC theme -- win or else.
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WINSTON-SALEM -- Everybody associated with the Wake Forest men&#39;s basketball team seemed in a better mood after its latest game.
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At the University of Tennessee, one losing season is enough to send the faithful into a frenzy, questioning the coach's competence and wondering if it's time for a change.
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The feel-good story of the baseball season turns into a different kind of feel-good storyâand leaves us fans feeling bad.
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The drive covered just over three minutes, but in that brief amount of time USC&#39;s football team yesterday discovered the kind of resolve that often produces a champion.