Sports Columns

Outside the Pocket: Press meal power rankings, 2019 season

Chicken parm, tacos and burgers were some of the many meals offered to press covering the USC football season.

Sam Arslanian
December 29, 2019

Off the Rim: Carmelo Anthony can save the Blazers’ mindset

Anthony made an embarrassing return to the NBA, but his impact on the Blazers will be more than the box score.

Sarah Ko December 5, 2019

The Inside Edge: Top trends from the 2019 Grand Prix season

Skating is a glorious sport filled with eccentric personalities, outrageous physical feats and shifting battles for dominance. The only constant? Everything’s always changing.

Faith Bonds December 4, 2019

Outside the Pocket: Helton sticking around is not that crazy of an idea

Just because you tweet “Fire Helton,” doesn’t mean it is going to happen. With all the noise surrounding head coach Clay Helton getting canned come season-end, it’s easy to lose perspective on the good things Helton has done for this football team.

Sam Arslanian November 25, 2019

Outside the Pocket: Helton won’t tell you this, but Friday’s win should not be celebrated

The Colorado air made it tough to breathe, but head coach Clay Helton was holding his breath as he nearly saw his team’s season end and his chance of staying for another year reduce to zero.

Sam Arslanian October 28, 2019

Off the Rim: The Lost Angeles Lakers

Finally, the wait is over. After a 131 day hiatus, the NBA season is back and more exciting than ever before, filled with newly assembled teams that are barely recognizable from last year.. All-Stars hopped from team to team, injuries plagued some of the top players of the league and the Golden State Warriors dynasty is no more. But more importantly, LA rivalry is at last back … or is it?

Sarah Ko October 24, 2019

The Inside Edge: Quads are the new currency

Skaters like Russians Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova push the technical envelope in ladies skating.

Faith Bonds October 24, 2019

Buy the Numbers: Week 9 predictions

Washington let me down. The Huskies had an 86.5% chance to win against Oregon with a 10-point lead late in the third quarter. However, Mycah Pittman, the brother of USC’s Michael Pittman Jr., scored his first career touchdown to usher in the Ducks’ comeback.

Michael Loy October 22, 2019