A husband and wife pleaded no contest today to charges stemming from a hit-and-run crash that killed a USC student and seriously injured another, who was pulled off the hood of the car that hit the pair before the culprits left the scene.

Eighty-three years playing home basketball games in one leaky, creaky facility can get a little old. Mostly for the lanky, cranky opposing teams. The University of Oregon’s McArthur Court – aka Mac Court, more notoriously referred to as “The Pit” – is scheduled to disappear as the Ducks’ advantageous dungeon when the next season of Pacific-10 Conference play starts. It’ll be replaced by a sleek, $200 million all-purpose facility across campus bankrolled primarily by Nike chief Phil Knight. The overtime loss UCLA suffered on Mac Court’s maple floor Thursday night, and the game USC will play there tonight, mark the last time either Southern California team has to step foot in the rickety relic again.

‘We’re trying to play a heavyweight schedule,’ Coach Kevin O’Neill says of slate that includes games at Kansas, Tennessee and Nebraska.

USC’s nonconference schedule next season is shaping into something tough.

Four months after a weighlifting accident in which his throat was crushed, the former Trojans running back wants to show NFL coaches and scouts that he can absorb, and deliver, contact.

Stafon Johnson can take a hit.

‘We’re trying to play a heavyweight schedule,’ Coach Kevin O’Neill says of slate that includes games at Kansas, Tennessee and Nebraska.

USC’s nonconference schedule next season is shaping into something tough.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – USC entered Thursday’s game against Oregon State leading the Pacific-10 Conference in scoring defense at 55.7 points per game.

USC commits 19 turnovers, which the Beavers convert into 22 points.

That issue USC used to have, when there would be so many turnovers the game seemed a comedic performance? It came back Thursday night.