D.J. Shoemate will start again at fullback but Stanley Havili will play and is cleared for contact.

As we mentioned earlier tonight on twitter, Anthony McCoy (sprained ankle) will not make the trip to Oregon.
“I’ll watch the game on TV,” McCoy said. “It just didn’t get right.”

Here’s what Kevin O’Neill had to say about his departure from Arizona.
“I don’t feel bad about the way things happened at all,” O’Neill said. “I’ll say I left Arizona and never said a bad word about anything. I let everybody (else) do all the talking. Arizona is a great place. Lute Olson is a Hall of Famer. I love the city of Tucson. My son is graduating from Arizona in a month and a half.
“I don’t feel anything different playing Arizona than Washington State or any of those other places. Would I like to beat Arizona twice? Sure. I’d like to beat UCLA twice and Arizona State twice, too. I’m proud to be the coach at USC. To me, things worked out really well. I don’t have anything bad to say at all.”

Dwight Lewis said he still talks to Tim Floyd, who is presumably living in his house in Mississippi.
“I’m pretty sure he’s enjoying his land with his wife,” Lewis said.
Asked if he knew if Floyd wanted to return to coaching, Lewis said: “You’d have to ask him that.”

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Kevin O’Neill has four of his top seven players out of practice with injuries.
Alex Stepheson has general stiffness resulting in trying to block a shot in practice. Donte Smith tweaked his ankle, but he’s expected to practice today. Nikola Vucevic has a sore calve muscle, and Marcus Simmons is nursing a shoulder injury. Beside that, the Trojans are perfectly healthy. O’Neill didn’t believe any of the injuries were serious.

Remember practice reports are filed first on twitter.com/InsideUSC.
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Here’s basketball coach Kevin O’Neill at today’s Pac-10 media day:
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Here’s my Pac-10 ballot.
1. Washington
2. California
3. UCLA
4. Arizona
5. Oregon
6. Arizona State
7. Oregon State
8. Stanford
9. USC
10. Washington State