Ryan Kartje

1 week ago | latimes.com | Ryan Kartje

Welcome once again to an offseason edition of the Times of Troy newsletter. We return to you at the dawn of a new era in college athletics, one that USC and its leaders have promised they will win … if the lawyers don’t first.

1 month ago | latimes.com | Ryan Kartje

Surprise! The Times of Troy is back by popular demand in your inbox, here to help ease you back into your week after what we hope was a relaxing holiday weekend. I was honored and humbled to hear your thoughts — most of them very kind — about the newsletter’s debut season. So much so that we’ve decided to bring it back before our scheduled return in July. We’ve got some new ideas in the works for Season 2.

1 month ago | latimes.com | Ryan Kartje

One of the top prospects in USC’s top-ranked 2026 recruiting class has decided not to wait another year to join the Trojans. Rancho Cucamonga cornerback RJ Sermons, a four-star recruit, plans to reclassify to the 2025 class, leaving high school a year early to enroll this summer at USC. Sermons, whose father Rodney played at USC, should give the Trojans another talented option in a defensive backfield that lost five starters from a season ago.

1 month ago | latimes.com | Ryan Kartje

The first thing that catches your eye as you enter new Dedeaux Field — once you’ve navigated the ground floor of the parking structure, past the temporary batting cages in the construction zone beyond center field, down the path strewn with electric scooters, around “CONSTRUCTION ACCESS GATE #3” and onto the warning track of USC’s soon-to-be baseball home — is the actual field itself. A new playing surface wasn’t something Trojans baseball players were clamoring for.

1 month ago | gazettextra.com | Ryan Kartje

LOS ANGELES - With the contract between USC and Notre Dame set to expire and one of college football's most storied rivalries in serious danger of ending, officials at USC extended an offer to Notre Dame earlier this month in hopes of continuing the historic series for at least one more season - through the fall of 2026 - a person familiar with the negotiations not authorized to discuss them publicly told The Los Angeles Times.