Always Compete is both a revealing look at the tactics and personality of one of college football's best coaches, Pete Carroll, and a thrilling chronicle of the 2008 USC Trojans' quest for another championship, culminating in their victory over Penn State in the Rose Bowl.Just when USC football was in the midst of a horrific slump, when skeptics began to say the scholarship limits had conspired to make it impossible to recapture its old glory, Coach Pete C...

J.D. Towne is not only football's greatest quarterback, he is the biggest American sports celebrity since Michael Jordan. His movie star handsome face is everywhere, on television, on billboards, on cereal boxes. Literally everywhere. He is also hiding a secret -- a big secret: He is a serial abuser of women. Towne, like so many of today's athletes, has grown up with a deep sense of entitlement. He think he doesn't have to live by the same rules as everyone else. Jody Langley, one of the w...