USC Trojans refuse to repeat Cardinal sins

LOS ANGELES — For so many years Stanford was a speed bump for USC. It certainly wasn’t a destination or a milestone. Stanford was just a Saturday of calisthenics, a warmup for the Notre Dames and UCLAs that lay ahead.
Fortunately John McKay was no longer around when all of that changed. He never had to watch the Trojans use the Cardinal as a growth chart, a model of what they wanted to be. He wouldn’t have enjoyed the last few years of this sudden rivalry. But he would have sav