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Matt Barkley's progression at Southern California has taken him from a heralded freshman who sometimes made questionable decisions to one of the best quarterbacks in college football.
UCLA's top recruit Shabbazz Muhammad will not travel to China for the Bruins' three preseason games they'll play at the end of the month.
The seats in Memorial Stadium were all but empty, the handful of observers dwarfed by the massive bowl. Clanging and ratcheting sounds from workers behind the east end zone echoed off the expanse of the stadium, at times drowning out the shouts of Southern Cal's coaches and players below.
Redshirt junior center Anthony Stover has been dismissed from the UCLA basketball team for failure to meet NCAA eligibility requirements.
Despite its lopsided loss to Alabama in last January's BCS national title game, LSU will open the 2012 season ranked No. 1 in at least one poll.
The NCAA is on the verge of going international. By supporting a change in constitutional language, the NCAA's Executive Committee paved the way for Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, to become the first member from outside the U.S. to join America's largest college sports governing body.
Penn State has lost their second football player since the NCAA hammered the Big-10 school with a four-year bowl ban, as running back Silas Redd announced he will be going to the University of Southern California.
The defection of Penn State players is officially underway as safety Tim Buckley is leaving Happy Valley for his hometown N.C. State.
Travel 850 miles northwest of Downtown Los Angeles, primarily along I-5, and you will stumble on one of college football's top programs, the University of Oregon.
One very notable face was missing from the group of Penn State players who pledged their commitment to the program on Wednesday. Junior running back Silas Redd was thought to be absent from the group while on the way to Big Ten media days in Chicago. Three Nittany Lions will be in attendance at the event, but Redd will not be one of them.
