After the Trojans' plummet in the polls following the loss to Stanford and the release of the first BCS poll, many thought the team couldn't or wouldn't drop any further. Not so, as the AP is reporting that a chartered plane with 82 players aboard, headed to Indiana for tomorrow's Notre Dame game experienced an extreme drop while flying through a severe thunderstorm. Weather was so bad that the pilot had to abandon his first... more ›

If you're a local sports fan, hopefully you had Columbus Day (International Day of Solidarity with Indigenous People, whatever) off to nurse a wicked hangover. In fact, maybe you should take tonight off from Sports Center, too. It's Leif Erikson day. Honest. Even George W. Bush knows that (and don't worry, he's probably not working today, either). Maybe it wasn't the worst, but it was up there. T.J. Simers hit the nail on the... more ›

Unranked UCLA was thatclose to knocking off #10 Notre Dame in South Bend. In what would have been one of the greatest upsets so far in this young season, the Bruins snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Notre Dame's Brady Quinn threw three passes for 80 yards -- in a final drive that only took 35 seconds -- and brought UCLA crashing back down to earth. "We can't dwell on any of this,"... more ›

We have been reading a lot of opinions about the UCLA football season, some good and some not so favorable. Let us go on the record as saying that we believe coach Karl Dorrell has done a good job. Now, that doesn’t mean we’re putting him up there with former Bruin head coach and College Hall of Famer Terry Donahue, but we would like to see a little more love given to a team that is currently 9-1 and went from unranked to a top 10 team (before the horrendous loss to Arizona, no we have NOT let that one go). We have even seen people saying that he needs a win against USC to save his job. more ›

The greatest weekend of college football in recent memory was built around a single epicenter – another legendary addition to the USC-Notre Dame rivalry. more ›