Brian Cushing News Archives

Opportunity plus talent equals tackles for loss - at least in the case of USC strong-side linebacker Michael Morgan .

The guy who Labors so hard for the football team at St. Joseph's Prep does answer to Mike since that is his given name.

A quarter of the 2009 college football season is in the rearview mirror for most teams, and conference play is beginning to take center stage across the country.

It will be the beginning of the Rey Maualuga reunion tour on Sunday at Lambeau Field when he gets to see former Southern Cal teammate Clay Matthews Jr., who was drafted in the first round by the Packers.

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The NFL's opening weekend had many storylines, including the season and professional debuts of many former Trojan football players.

HOUSTON a ' On the day they both were selected in the first round of the NFL draft, Brian Cushing texted Southern California roommate Mark Sanchez and said he would sack him on opening day.

A year later, the guy who ran an interception back 48 yards for a touchdown, is gone.

In the last few years Mark Sanchez and Brian Cushing have been friends, teammates and even roommates.

LOS ANGELES - They aren't freshmen and they don't play quarterback. Don't think there wasn't pressure elsewhere on the field for USC, and it fell on linebackers not named Maualuga, Cushing or Maiava.

Posted by ESPN.com's Ted Miller LOS ANGELES -- A no-name defense at USC? Not possible.

That's how long we've suffered without college football. Thursday night, that changes.

Pete Carroll knows that when he is talking to Taylor Mays, he is talking to one of the best safeties in the country.

David Buehler is on the Dallas Cowboys for one reason: to boom kickoffs deep enough not to be returned.