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The Emerald Bowl will be a new experience for USC, which is accustomed to playing higher-profile games during the bowl season.

Stafon Johnson is Most Inspirational. Damian Williams was named the Most Valuable Player of the USC football team on Sunday.

There is a new most important guy at the NFL draft combine : USC senior RB Stafon Johnson , who has missed most of this season following a freak weightlifting accident, will not apply for a medical hardship and will turn pro, according to his uncle.

Earlier this year, Southern California tailback Stafon Johnson's season was derailed because of a freak weightlifting accident that nearly cost him his life and ended his senior campaign with the Trojans.

Looking sharp and lively, USC conducted its first football practice Saturday morning since the end of the end of the regular season, as the Trojans prepare to play Boston College in the Emerald Bowl on Dec.

USC defensive back Josh Pinkard has a lot to remember from his six years at USC: winning a national title and losing a national title, winning three Rose Bowls and losing two seasons to injury.

Entering SaturdayA A's regular-season finale against Arizona at the Coliseum with 979 yards and eight touchdowns, Joe McKnight can become the TrojansA A' first 1,000-yard rusher since Reggie Bush and LenDale White did so in 2005.

USC fans at the Coliseum felt it during the game. Trojans players said it as they walked off the field.

Juron Criner stumbled into the end zone with a 36-yard touchdown pass from Nick Foles with 3:14 to play, and Arizona wrapped up its best regular season in a decade Saturday with a 21-17 victory over not-so-mighty Southern California.

OK, so it's not for the Rose Bowl. But there's still a lot at stake when USC plays host to Arizona.

Several USC juniors will consider making themselves available for the NFL draft after the Trojans play a bowl game later this month.

I was talking to a USC alum recently and was expressing my disappointment at the football team this year.

As the Daily Trojan reported Saturday, senior running back Stafon Johnson spoke at a press conference before USC's game against Stanford for the first time since he underwent emergency surgery following a weightlifting accident in late September.

After watching the film of his team's 55-21 defeat to Stanford, USC coach Pete Carroll came to a fairly simple conclusion.

Usually schools schedule a cupcake during Homecoming. Usually they make sure the cupcake is light , loaded with creamy frosting and decorated with some celebratory sprinkles.

Johnson briefly demonstrated his remarkable recovery from a potentially fatal weight room accident Saturday before the Trojans' game against Stanford.

The obvious struggles of this years team has made a few people take a closer look at the make up of this team.

Against Arizona State, the Trojans turn to their veteran blockers to lead the way.

EUGENE, Ore. a ' Like students crammed into their sliver of a packed college stadium, not much separates the combatants in Saturday's epic Pac-10 tilt between USC and Oregon.

Just ask a Vegas bookie about USC's home loss to Stanford in 2007. Or about the likelihood of Notre Dame's fourth quarter near-comeback against the Trojans three weeks ago.