Hip Injury for USC's Bradford Less Rare Now

When UCLA basketball player Josh Shipp suffered the same injury three years ago, and underwent a couple of surgeries for it, his cartilage damage and hip labrum tear was the first UCLA trainers had seen in 33 years.

But over at USC, a pair of Trojans, senior Jeff Byers and another San Bernardino Trojan running back, Michael Coleman, both came up with it and went through the surgery and yearlong rehab that may be facing Coleman.

Second-year USC center Michael Reardon has also recently had surgery for a similar lingering, then eventually painful, injury that seems so hard to pinpoint at first as it comes and goes and doesn't offer much in the way of specific symptoms.