Earlier this week, former USC quarterback Mitch Mustain pitched two scoreless innings in relief in his debut for the Rookie League Bristol White Sox in Virginia. He struck out two and allowed two hits.

The NCAA released APR scores today and USC’s football program ranked eighth in the Pac-12 with a score of 947. A four-year score of 900 leads to postseason bans and a record 10 basketball teams received the ban this year.
List of Pac-12 football scores after the jump:
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USC is the favorite to win the national title at 3-1 odds according to Bovada. Oregon’s odds are 12-1. Full list after the jump.
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USC wide receiver Robert Woods is icing his ankle three-to-four times a day as he continues to deal with the inflammation in his injured anklle from last season.

Summer always brings out some standard cliches of football. Here are four that come up every summer and will no doubt be story lines going into training camp:

1. The players are benchpressing more weight than ever.
2. The team is closer than last year.
3. The players lost a lot of weight.
4. The quarterback’s arm is stronger.

USC is No. 2 behind LSU if you compile the preseason rankings of the three major football magazines (Lindys, Athlon, Phil Steele). Here’s a website that uses a point system to reach a consensus of the magazine’s picks.

Pete Carroll’s holding a “WinForever Workshop” at the Montalban Theater on Sunday in Los Angeles at 4 p.m. Apparently, Win Forever is now one word.

Athlon’s latest list is Pac-12 players who are Heisman Trophy contenders. Matt Barkley, of course, is No. 1. Robert Woods, Marqise Lee, T.J. McDonald and Curtis McNeal also make the list.

The Charlotte Bobcats reportedly will hire St. John’s assistant coach Mike Dunlap. Few probably remember that Dunlap was an assistant at USC from 1986-89 under former coach George Raveling.

Linebacker Michael Hutchings tweeted today he will make his college decision July 1. USC is considered the frontrunner.