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Producers Ed Saxon and Nina Yang Bongiovi are taking on new roles in support of the Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California. Saxon will serve as the program’s Chair, with Bongiovi filling a new role, as its Associate Chair and Producer-In-Residence. Both producers are alums of USC’s…

Star running back Reggie Bush, who became one of college sports' most controversial athletes and gave up his Heisman Trophy award in the midst of an NCAA investigation into USC's football program, says he's "finally ready to tell my story." He'll get that opportunity in an upcoming documentary film announced Wednesday…

The Heisman Trust, which manages college football’s most prestigious athletic award, said today that former University of Southern California star Reggie Bush could get his Heisman Trophy back and his college career statistics restored — that’s IF the NCAA removed sanctions against him. The Friday statement from the…

Chloé Zhao won top honors Saturday night at the 33rd annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards for Nomadland, her adaptation of Jessica Bruder's nonfiction book, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. “This is so beautiful,” Zhao said, holding up the trophy, and thanking Bruder for her book and for her…

Student filmmakers from USC dominated the 26th Annual DGA Student Film Awards for African American, Asian American, Latino and women directors, which are designed to honor, encourage and bring attention to exceptional diverse directors in film schools and universities across the country. A national awards ceremony…

Paul Westphal, a Hall of Fame basketball player who starred for USC and later in the NBA, died Saturday from complications of brain cancer. He was 70. NBA teams honored Westphal with moments of silence before Saturday night's games. NBA commissioner Adam Silver called him, "One of the great all-around players of his…

USC’s football game against Colorado scheduled for Saturday at the Coliseum has been canceled and will be declared a no-contest. The action was taken by the Pac-12 because USC does not have the minimum number of scholarship players available for the game at a specific position group as a result of a number of positive…

A video designed to lure athletic recruits to the University of Southern California has been pulled by the school after backlash on its insensitive tone. The video showed Trojans players and coaches attending a fake premiere and Hollywood Hills pool party. It was created by the school’s new BLVD Studios, a creative…

Pac-12 Conference officials said Thursday they have decided to reinstate the college football, basketball and winter sports seasons, reversing decisions made last month that saw one of the nation’s major college sports conferences postpone its 2020-21 campaigns because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Pac-12 CEO Group…

The Pac-12 has set a 10-game, conference-only fall schedule for football, including moving the USC-UCLA rivalry game to the first weekend of play in late September instead of its traditional closing weekend. The Pac-12 schedule will begin on Saturday, Sept. 26, the conference announced Friday. Besides USC-UCLA, the…

The USC School of Cinematic Arts will remove an exhibit devoted to actor John Wayne, a USC student and football player in the 1920s, after months of insistence from students denouncing the Hollywood star’s on-the-record racism and the portrayal of Indigenous Americans in many of his films. The removal was announced…

The USC School of Dramatic Arts Dean has resigned, admitting to dating a student in what he characterized as “evidence of irresponsibility.” Dean David Bridel’s resignation came after another woman revealed the relationship at a USC town hall meeting on Wednesday of this week. A day later, Bridel sent a letter to…