Bill Plaschke: USC can't get out of its own way when it comes to NCAA scandals
LOS ANGELES - USC thought it had finally, painfully and diligently, slogged its way out of the shadow of athletic scandal.
The Reggie Bush sanctions had long been lifted. The O.J. Mayo sanctions had long been forgotten. The Steve Sarkisian mess was just a memory.
With a new athletic director, new training facilities and a soon-to-be-just-like-new Coliseum, the Trojans appeared to be skipping brightly back along the path toward past greatness.
Until, suddenly, they were tripped by that pesky
