USC 48, Arizona 41 (final)

It was a day for records but not for defenses.

USC quarterback Matt Barkley passed for a school-record 468 yards during the Trojans' 48-41 victory over Arizona on Saturday afternoon at the Coliseum, with receiver Robert Woods collecting 255 of them on the way to his career high.

The teams combined for a whopping 893 passing yards -- and 1,136 total -- and if it wasn't for two first-half interceptions by USC's T.J. McDonald, Arizona could have easily emerged with a victory.

Arizona quarterback Nick Foles completed 41 of 53 passes for 425 yards and four touchdowns and was outplayed by his counterpart; Barkley was that impressive. The USC junior completed 32 of 39 passes with four touchdowns and one interception.

The Wildcats actually rushed for 129 yards, 15 more than the Trojans. That's a stunning development considering Arizona had struggled mightily to move the ball on the ground before the game.

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USC 48, Arizona 41 (1:00 left in fourth quarter)

Crazy, crazy, crazy.

Arizona momentarily made a game of it after Nick Foles connected with Austin Hill in the back of the end zone on a four-yard touchdown play.

But the Wildcats couldn't recover the onside kick and USC will run out the clock.

The teams have combined for more than 1,000 yards, by the way. Where's a defensive coordinator when you need one?

USC 48, Arizona 34 (2:08 left in fourth quarter)

USC's defense got the stop it needed and now the Trojans are near midfield attempting to run out the clock.

It won't be a memorable day for the Trojans' defense. Besides safety T.J. McDonald's pair of first-half interceptions, Arizona has pretty much driven at will against USC.

USC 48, Arizona 34 (9:28 left in fourth quarter)

Matt Barkley now stands alone atop the USC single-game passing chart.

The junior broke Carson Palmer's record of 448 yards with a 25-yard completion to Brice Butler that gave Barkley 453 yards. Trojans running back Curtis McNeal then scored on a nine-yard touchdown run to restore USC's two-touchdown edge over pesky Arizona.

Brazilian Filipe Toledo wins junior men's surfing title

Filipe Toledo is already the ISA Junior Surfing Champion, and Saturday afternoon, he became U.S Open Champion in the junior men's division on his first trip to Huntington Beach.

The Brazilian bore his country’s flag as soon as he was given one, and though he was shy about speaking English, he has already learned a crucial word in the surfer lexicon.

“It’s so unbelievable,” Toledo said. “I’m so stoke-ed.”

Toledo won a closely contested final by just more than one point over San Clemente native Kolohe Andino, who qualified earlier Saturday for the men’s final tomorrow.  Toledo finished with a first-place score of 15.17, while Andino finished with a 13.96.

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Photos: The Nike U.S. Open of Surfing in Surf City USA

-- Matt Stevens in Huntington Beach

Photo: Filipe Toledo rides to victory in the Quiksilver Kings of the Groms competition last month. Credit: quiksilver.com

Lakey Peterson wins Junior Women's Championship at Nike U.S. Open

Lakey Peterson is only 16 years old, but she looked like a seasoned professional as she hugged and high-fived people between media spots and autograph sessions, smiling the whole time. It’s an experience she might have to get used to if she keeps having days like Saturday.

Peterson won the Nike U.S. Open Junior Women’s Championship in Huntington Beach just hours after she qualified to compete in Sunday’s women’s final. Her final score of 16.07 pushed her well above the rest of the pack for the title.

“I’ve been really focused this whole event,” Peterson said. "I’m just so excited right now –- I don’t know what to say. I was looking at that trophy before the heat, and I wanted it so bad.”

The Santa Barbara native finished nearly four points ahead of 2008 winner Malia Manuel, using a board grab on her final wave to vault into first place. Laura Enever finished third, and Coco Ho, who is also in tomorrow's women’s final, finished a distant fourth.

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Photos: Surf City USA hosts Nike U.S. Open of Surfing

More than waves at the U.S. Open of Surfing

-- Matt Stevens in Huntington Beach

Photo: Lakey Peterson cuts back into a wave during competition Saturday at the U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach. Credit: Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times

Brett Simpson is eliminated at Nike U.S. Open of Surfing

When the horn sounded, Brett Simpson pounded his fist against his surfboard. His time was up. He had become yet another local legend who failed to three-peat this year.

The two-time defending champion at the Nike U.S. Open of Surfing had placed third in his heat and was eliminated Wednesday at the Huntington Beach competition.

Simpson finished with 10.24 points, trailing first-place Thiago Camarao of Brazil (13.17) and second-place John John Florence of Hawaii (12.26). The top two finishers in each heat advance to the next round.

"I had opportunities, you know, I made a mistake on a decent wave that I was setting up good and I freaking barreled," Simpson said. "Out there right now, you don't get a ton of opportunities, and when you get them, you've got to make them count. I didn't do that."

X Games: Taddy Blazusiak wins Enduro X title

Taddy Blazusiak owned the course that claimed so many dirt bikes and their riders’ speed. Blazusiak may not have gotten off to the greatest of starts in the Moto X Enduro X race, but he moved up through the field and then capitalized on Geoff Aaron’s fall to take the lead and, soon thereafter, the gold medal.

Aaron held the lead for the first five laps, with Blazusiak and Mike Brown giving chase. Aaron got caught on a fallen tree with a pile of rocks after it, and the two chasers blew past him.

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The obstacle that ended Aaron’s medal hopes joined a water pit, tires, a pile of split lumber, log paths and a large mound of dirt in the Staples Center-altering course.

Brown could not quite catch Blazusiak, settling for silver. Justin Soule snagged the bronze medal, passing Joakim Ljunggren in the final lap.

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-- Douglas Farmer

Photo: Taddy Blazusiak celebrates after winning the Moto X Enduro X final on Sunday evening at X Games 17. Credit: Harry How / Getty Images

X Games: Women's Enduro X brings falls and a Forsberg gold

Action sports athletes describe the X Games as their version of the Olympics. The effort in the Women’s Moto X Enduro X race fell far short of Olympian, as more than half the seven racers fell off their motorcycles at some point in the six-lap race. Some of them fell off multiple times.

Maria Forsberg managed to stay on her bike throughout the treacherous course, complete with tires, rock pits, a pile of split lumber, log paths, fallen trees and a water pit. Thanks to that consistency, Forsberg claimed a gold medal.

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Tarah Gieger overcame a fall in the first 100 feet of the race to take silver. Gieger also claimed silver in the Moto X Racing final Saturday.

Both Forsberg and Gieger passed Kacy Martinez, who held the lead from the start. About halfway through the race, Martinez fell in a rock pit, and Forsberg gained on her but could not make the pass. Martinez fell again on the next obstacle, atop the main dirt-mound in the Staples Center, and Forsberg capitalized on the mishap.

Martinez held on to snag the final spot on the podium.

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-- Douglas Farmer

Photo: Elizabeth Bash dives off her motorcycle while attempting to cross large logs on a hill during the Moto X Enduro X women's final on Sunday. Bash finished fourth. Credit:  Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times

X Games: Garrett Reynolds makes it four BMX Street golds

When Garrett Reynolds gets on a BMX bike at the X Games, one thing seems to be for sure: He will win.

Reynolds claimed his fourth BMX Freestyle Street gold Sunday. Since it's only the fourth running of BMX Freestyle Street, he has claimed every gold medal since its beginning in 2008.

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Reynolds was the only rider of the day to break 45 points, with a 47 in a qualifying run and two 46s in the finals. He bypassed a complete third run since he already had clinched the gold medal, and simply gave the fans a few thrills before accepting congratulations from his competitors.

For the second consecutive year, San Diegan Dennis Enarson finished second to Reynolds. Along with his silver medal in the BMX Freestyle Park competition Saturday, Enarson matched his haul from last year. Enarson’s total of 85 points in the final edged out Huntington Beach native Dakota Roche’s 84.

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Photo: Dakota Roche, who finished third, reacts to Garrett Reynolds' victory in the BMX Freestyle Street final on Sunday afternoon. Credit: Harry How / Getty Images

X Games: Brian Deegan takes gold; Pastrana crashes in final lap

Brian Deegan crossed the finish line first in the RallyCross final Sunday, and to Deegan, that is all that mattered.

To fans, though, the question was how did Travis Pastrana do? Pastrana, who had a broken right leg and ankle, drove with a customized steering wheel complete with a gas pedal and was in position for a bronze medal before crashing with less than half a lap left.

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Tanner Foust claimed the silver medal and Marcus Gronholm slipped by the sidelined Subaru of Pastrana for bronze.

Liam Doran took the lead off the starting line, but a sloppy first turn relegated him to the back of the field.

Fourteen-time X Games gold medalist Dave Mirra spent most of the race in fourth, holding off a charging Pastrana, before spinning out on the sixth lap.

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Travis Pastrana advances to the RallyCross final

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-- Douglas Farmer

Photo: Brian Deegan takes a jump in his car during the the RallyCross final on the streets of downtown L.A. on Sunday afternoon. Credit: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times

X Games: Julian Christianson wins amateur skateboard title again

Julian Christianson won the Hometown Heroes Amateur Skateboard Street final for the fourth time in five years with a final run score of 88.33 points to edge Poway’s Brendon Villanueva.
 
It was a battle between Christianson and Villanueva down the stretch as the two skaters posted top scores in their third runs. Villanueva had a three-point lead heading into the final round of runs, when Christianson put an exclamation point on his winning skate by landing a huge ollie off a set of eight stairs. Villanueva had one chance left to top Christianson, but crashed twice and was buzzed off the course.
 
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The 22-year-old Christianson won $5,000 and Chipotle for a year.
 
Dan Coe took third place with a run of 80 points.

The top three skaters finished in the same order in the final as they did in the elimination round.

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X Games: Travis Pastrana advances to RallyCross final

With one functioning foot, Travis Pastrana advanced to the RallyCross final through a last-chance qualifier heat Sunday.

Pastrana took second in his initial heat, but capitalized on the last-chance opportunity to reach the seven-car final with a 6.46-second cushion.

Pastrana broke his right foot and ankle in the Moto X Best Trick competition Thursday night, forcing his crew to design a steering wheel with a gas pedal control attached to it.

After his first heat, Pastrana admitted he had trouble both steering and working the hand control. Every time he fumbled the steering wheel throughout the street course at L.A. Live, he also lost his grip on the throttle.

By the last-chance qualifier, though, Pastrana appeared to have worked out the kinks. He got out to a poor start, but after a nifty move on the first lap, Pastrana mainly raced himself throughout the five-lap race.

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Photo: Travis Pastrana takes his car over a jump on the RallyCross course in downtown Los Angeles during the finals on Sunday. Credit: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times

X Games: Travis Pastrana finishes second in RallyCross heat

Travis Pastrana can now add another unique accomplishment to his lengthy list of X Games' firsts: He finished a RallyCross race without using the gas pedal.

Pastrana’s broken right leg and ankle forced his team to create a steering wheel with an accelerator control attached to the back of it. Thus, while flying through the turns of downtown Los Angeles, Pastrana not only turns the wheel but also uses the hand controls to hit the gas.

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Pastrana has only driven the newfangled car a few times, and he struggled in his initial heat Sunday, finishing second by 4.18 seconds.

Brian Deegan, who won two silver medals in last year’s X Games, won Pastrana’s heat, and the man who beat him twice last year, Tanner Foust, claimed the first heat.

Pastrana will race in a last chance qualifier heat later this afternoon. If he can figure out how to race most effectively with his new device and win that heat, he’ll move on to the final.

-- Douglas Farmer

Photo: Travis Pastrana guides his car through a turn on the RallyCross course in downtown Los Angeles during qualifying on Sunday. Credit: Harry How / Getty Images

SPORTS BUDGET FOR MONDAY, AUGUST 1

RUNBACK AGATE!!!!!!!!!!!

--Agate for missed games because of Sunday 9:30 deadline

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--DODGERS-McCOURT For the first time this summer, an MLB owner has spoken out against Frank McCourt's ownership of the Dodgers. SHAIKIN

--ANGELS-TIGERS Angels at Detroit -- Jered Weaver vs. Justin Verlander, 10:05 a.m. Baxter.

--BASEBALL-TRADES winners and losers off trade deadline. HERNANDEZ.

--FARMERS-TENNIS Championship match of men's tournament at L.A. Tennis Center (UCLA). Pucin.

--NASCAR-BRICKYARD-400 Race gamer; race starts at 10 a.m. Pacific. PELTZ 18"

MOTOR RACING (4)

--NASCAR-BRICKYARD-NOTES Race notes. PELTZ 12"

TENNIS (4)

--TENNIS-TOURNAMENT-FIELDS A look at the challenges of putting together, and keeping, fields for tournaments such as this week's women's tournament at LaCosta and last week's men's tournament at UCLA that exist below the Slams. One example: Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and Kim Clijsters both were late scratches from the LaCosta event. PUCIN

--LACOSTA-MATCHES Monday's featured matches. Pucin.

X GAMES (4)

--X-GAMES roundup of events. HOLMES, D.FARMER, STEVENS

BASEBALL (14)

--DODGERS-DIAMONDBACKS Arizona at Dodgers, TBA. Bolch/Hernandez.

--DODGERS-FYI notes.

--ANGELS-FYI notes

--BASEBALL-NOTES around the majors. Wires

--NL-STANDINGS

--NL-PITCHERS list. Wires/Desk

--NL (7 games), wires

San Francisco at Cincinnati, 10:10 a.m.

Florida at Atlanta, 10:35 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 10:35 a.m.

N.Y. Mets at Washington, 10:35 a.m.

Houston at Milwaukee, 11:10 a.m.

Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 11:15 a.m.

Colorado at San Diego, 1:05 p.m.

--AL-STANDINGS

--AL-PITCHERS list. Wires/Desk

--AL (6 games), wires

Kansas City at Cleveland, 10:05 a.m.

Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 10:05 a.m.

Texas at Toronto, 10:07 a.m.

Boston at Chicago White Sox, 11:10 a.m.

Minnesota at Oakland, 1:07 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Seattle, 1:10 p.m.

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--AGATE includes odds

--DELMAR-RESULTS results DESK

PAGE 2 (5)

--DUFRESNE-COLLEGE-FOOTBALL Top college football storylines – No. 2 -- in advance of 2011 season.

--CALENDAR desk

--WEB-REFER (sports-poll). desk

--MON-TV listings. Burgess

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--GOLF roundup. Wires

--FINA-SWIMMING from Shanghai. wires

--SPARKS Sparks at Indiana, 3 p.m. wires.

--CHIVAS at FC Dallas 4, wires

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