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USC’s Joe McKnight injured

By Corina Knoll
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USC tailback Joe McKnight was helped off the Rose Bowl field at the New Year’s Day game against Penn State early in the second quarter. It was announced that the true sophomore had suffered a toe sprain and his return to the game was questionable. Before he left, he had 13 yards on 5 carries, most of which came on a 7-yard run.

McKnight missed the games against Washington State and Washington this season, also due to a sprained toe. It was not clear if the same toe was sprained today.

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McKnight made 2008 All-Pac-10 honorable mention and is the recipient of USC’s Jack Oakie ‘Rise and Shine’ award, earned for the year’s longest run from scrimmage (55 yards against Notre Dame).

-- Corina Knoll

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Corina Knoll

Corina Knoll is a former reporter for the Metro section of the Los Angeles Times. She was on the team that investigated corruption in Bell — which led to the paper’s 2011 Pulitzer Prize for public service — and went on to cover the trials of the city’s former officials. She later contributed to the paper’s coverage of the San Bernardino terror attack that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. As a regional reporter, she wrote features about the San Gabriel Valley and the Westside. During her courts beat, she covered high-profile criminal cases and civil disputes, including the Jackson family vs AEG and Bryan Stow vs LA Dodgers. She and two colleagues investigated sheriff’s deputies whose histories of misconduct landed them on the department’s top-secret Brady list. She left The Times in January 2019. Raised in the Midwest, she is a graduate of Macalester College.

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