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Updated: Nov. 27, 2005, 10:55 PM ET
White to be evaluated MondayBy Bruce Feldman
ESPN The Magazine
LOS ANGELES -- Just six days before top-ranked USC tries to beat archrival UCLA, lock up a Rose Bowl berth and get one step closer to a national championship three-peat, the Trojans got a major scare at practice Sunday.
Junior LenDale White, the thunder to Reggie Bush's lightning in USC's vaunted backfield, had to be carted off the field after an apparent left shoulder injury.
The severity of the injury at this point is unknown. Coach Pete Carroll said that White got dinged and will be evaluated Monday.
The 6-foot-2, 235-pound White, who's rushed for 1,024 yards and 19 touchdowns, was shaken up in the early part of Sunday's practice. He was injured on what seemed to be a normal play; however, he pulled up, dropped the football and went down holding his shoulder. Observers didn't notice anything unusual until a minute later, when the USC sports information director realized White was still down behind a few players who were standing.
White lay on the field for several minutes while being attended to by team trainers. He appeared to be in a lot of pain.
Bush -- who has already carried the ball 163 times (20 more than he did in all of 2004) and run for 1,398 yards -- said if White is unavailable, that would obviously mean he'd have to carry the ball even more against the Bruins.
"But hopefully," he added, "everything will be all right with him and that won't have to be the case."
In the Trojans' last outing, against Fresno State, Bush ran for 294 yards and had 513 all-purpose yards. He ran for 204 yards on only 15 carries last year against UCLA in a 29-24 Trojans victory.
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Just give me the over in the game and I'll probably lay the -22
White to be evaluated MondayBy Bruce Feldman
ESPN The Magazine
LOS ANGELES -- Just six days before top-ranked USC tries to beat archrival UCLA, lock up a Rose Bowl berth and get one step closer to a national championship three-peat, the Trojans got a major scare at practice Sunday.
Junior LenDale White, the thunder to Reggie Bush's lightning in USC's vaunted backfield, had to be carted off the field after an apparent left shoulder injury.
The severity of the injury at this point is unknown. Coach Pete Carroll said that White got dinged and will be evaluated Monday.
The 6-foot-2, 235-pound White, who's rushed for 1,024 yards and 19 touchdowns, was shaken up in the early part of Sunday's practice. He was injured on what seemed to be a normal play; however, he pulled up, dropped the football and went down holding his shoulder. Observers didn't notice anything unusual until a minute later, when the USC sports information director realized White was still down behind a few players who were standing.
White lay on the field for several minutes while being attended to by team trainers. He appeared to be in a lot of pain.
Bush -- who has already carried the ball 163 times (20 more than he did in all of 2004) and run for 1,398 yards -- said if White is unavailable, that would obviously mean he'd have to carry the ball even more against the Bruins.
"But hopefully," he added, "everything will be all right with him and that won't have to be the case."
In the Trojans' last outing, against Fresno State, Bush ran for 294 yards and had 513 all-purpose yards. He ran for 204 yards on only 15 carries last year against UCLA in a 29-24 Trojans victory.
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Just give me the over in the game and I'll probably lay the -22
Good Luck as always!
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