Last semester I was a football player for USD. The NCAA has specific rules that state you can only play four seasons of college football. So unless your name is JT Rogan, four seasons is all you get...

USD has unveiled its Revised Master Plan for Recreation, Intramurals, Club Sports and Intercollegiate Athletics. The master plan will begin with the construction of a new on-campus baseball st...

When the USD women's soccer team lost its Sweet 16 matchup against Long Beach State on Nov. 20, it meant one of the greatest careers in the history of the program would come to an end as Stephanie Ochs]]> Thu, 2 Feb 2012 1.2762701 Sports Ochs Chris Hanneke Sports http://www.theusdvista.com/sports/toreros-football-wins-first-pfl-championship-since-06-1.2731188 Morgan Lewis
Caragher named Coach of the Year; Oliaro named Defensive Player of the Year

It has been a very big couple of weeks for the Toreros football team. The Toreros won their fourth Pioneer Football League championship and their first since 2007 with a 23-14 victory over the Jacksonville UniversityBulldogs on Nov. 19. Twenty-one seni...

The University of San Diego women's volleyball season ended somewhat prematurely this weekend as the team suffered a tough 3-1 loss to UCLA in the second round of the NCAA tournament. ...

The Toreros are off to a good start (4-3) with senior Darian Norris and freshman Johnny Dee leading the way. Over Thanksgiving break while many students got to go home and relax with family, the men's basketball team was hard at work in the Hoops for H...

Despite being the better team at UCLA's Drake stadium, the fairy tale story of the University of San Diego's women's soccer team this year unfortunately saw the end of the 2011 season. On a cold, rain-drenched field, the Toreros watched the clock tick ...

The amount of time I've spent putting stuff off this week would disgust you. I had two papers to write that I easily could have finished over the weekend and I didn't even put a dent in them. This wasn't for any noble reason, either. I just didn't get ...

My grandma, a Baylor University alum, is 83 years old. She is and has been a diehard Baylor football fan for her entire life. I have watched many Baylor football games with her and have witnessed her frustration firsthand with the previously moribund f...

The fate of USD's most successful women's soccer season hinged on one penalty kick. Block it and USD still has a chance. Allow a goal and its historic season is done. USD's senior goalie Courtney Parsons kept the door open for the Toreros by blocking t...

In a contest that was held under terrible conditions, the University of San Diego football team pulled off a narrow victory this past Saturday, beating Marist College 13-7. Rain and mud plagued bot...

The University of San Diego women's basketball team kicked off the 2011-2012 regular season last Friday night with an impressive 80-56 victory at the Jenny Craig Pavilion over Cal State San Marcos. With the exception of a 4-4 tie at the 17:09 mark of t...

The University of San Diego women's volleyball team concluded its final away game of the West Coast Conference this weekend as the Toreros comfortably beat the Loyola Marymount University Lions 3-1. ...

I talked to Toreros head men's basketball coach Bill Grier before the season for the profile of him that I was working on at the time. While I was focused on all of the things that made him up as a ...

Injuries and inconsistency proved to be too much for the USD men's soccer team to handle this season. In spite of these injuries and inconsistencies, the Toreros still had a chance to win the West Coast Conference, a conference that head coach Seamus M...

The USD women's soccer team and UC Irvine battled for 110 minutes, but were still tied 2-2 after two 10-minute overtime halves. The Toreros outlasted UCI to take the first round match, winning 5-3 in penalty kicks Friday night at Anteater Stadium. The ...

I will never be in attendance as a student for another USD football game. Even though there is still one more game, I will be in Los Angeles next weekend and will not get the chance to see them compete for a share of the Pioneer League Football Champio...

USD is 2-0 for the first time in the Bill Grier era, accomplishing this feat with the youngest team Grier has ever fielded. The Torero...