Anthony Davis

Former USC running back Anthony Davis, a unanimous All-American in 1974, will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in December, the National Football Foundation announced Wednesday. Davis, 52, is part of a Hall of Fame class of 11 players and two coaches. Davis is the 27th USC player to be voted into the Hall of Fame, which is located in South Bend, Ind. "It's always an honor to me to be acknowledged," Davis said in a telephone interview. "I don't care if I'm 22 or 52."

Wisconsin running back Anthony Davis, treated over the weekend for a stab wound allegedly inflicted by his girlfriend, was charged Tuesday with a misdemeanor count of battery. Police alleged that Davis punched his girlfriend in the face during an argument at his apartment early Sunday before he was stabbed in the leg. Davis, 20, a sophomore, faces a maximum penalty of nine months in jail and a $10,000 fine. Tiffany L.

Reggie White's death provided the wake-up call, Kirby Puckett's the confirmation. Former USC running back Anthony Davis said last month that because of sleep- and weight-related health problems similar to those of White, a pro football Hall of Famer who died in 2004 at 43, he decided last year to undergo gastric bypass surgery. The procedure is scheduled for today at a hospital in La Jolla and will be shown live on the Internet.

USC football fans remember Anthony Davis as a 175-pound running back. Today, Davis is 53, weighs 280 pounds and on March 11 will have gastric bypass surgery at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla. Davis says he is in relatively good health, although he suffers from sleep apnea, which is connected to his weight problems. "Reggie White had sleep apnea and was overweight, and when he died, that was a wake-up call for me," Davis said.

Irvine leaders expressed wariness Friday at granting exclusive development rights to an investment group seeking to build a professional football stadium at the retiring El Toro Marine Corps Air Station and said it could be months before they make a final decision.

Watch out, Trevor Wilson. Step aside, Lucious Harris. Take a seat, Adonis Jordan. Cleveland High has come up with another basketball standout to continue its winning tradition. Anthony Davis, a 6-foot-5 junior transfer from Locke, had 36 points with four dunks and 11 rebounds Friday night to help the Cavaliers defeat Canoga Park, 81-66, in a semifinal game of the Beverly Hills tournament at Beverly Hills High. Cleveland (6-3) will play Palisades (8-1) in tonight's 7:30 final.

Yesterday's news is today's libretto. That's become a maxim for contemporary opera, best exemplified by John Adams' "Nixon in China" and "The Death of Klinghoffer." But even before Adams, there was composer Anthony Davis, who in 1986 premiered his "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X." Along with those works, and a handful of others, it suggests that opera, and society, are undergoing an interesting evolution. "Opera has been hiding out," Davis says.

All the rumors, all the talk about their coach getting fired after the season, has worn thin among USC players. "Like the presidential election," fullback Charlie Landrigan said. "You can only hear so much before you tune it out." But, like the election, the speculation over Coach Paul Hackett continues unabated as the Trojans head into the final game of the season against No. 11 Notre Dame at the Coliseum on Saturday.

Team USA faces Lithuania in the fourth game of pool play in the 2012 London Olympics beginning Saturday at 6:30 a.m. PDT. Below are five things to watch. 1. Will Team USA stay grounded? There's nothing to nitpick about the Americans' epic 156-73 win Wednesday over Nigeria. They set Olympic records in a slew of categories, including most points in a game, margin of victory (83), highest scorer (Carmelo Anthony's 37 points), three-pointers made (29), field-goal percentage (71.1%)

Anthony Davis knows the importance of location. The former USC All-American tailback considers it almost daily in his career as a real estate developer and commercial contractor. The location of today's enshrinement ceremony at the College Football Hall of Fame -- South Bend, Ind. -- is not lost on Davis. "It's funny how things work out," Davis, 53, said this week. "I can't think of a more appropriate place to go into the Hall of Fame than up the street from Notre Dame."