Booed, beaten and, as it turned out, a bit broken. Not a day at the Los Angeles Coliseum that USC quarterback John David Booty and the Trojans would care to remember.
In the Trojans' stunning 24-23 loss to Stanford, Booty -- who threw four interceptions -- played the final 2½ quarters with a broken middle finger on his throwing hand.
The fifth-year senior is questionable for Arizona on Saturday.
"I don't know if I'll play," he said following the game.
At halftime, Booty had his hand X-rayed, and the exam revealed the fracture. He is believed to have suffered the injury following through on a second-quarter pass.
"I want to play. I want to compete and fight," Booty said, according to the Orange County Register. "No way were they going to pull me out of that game ... even if there were times I probably wasn't at my best because of it.
"Look at [Brett] Favre, look at those guys. They don't hardly ever play healthy."
The defeat sent USC (4-1, 2-1 Pac-10) tumbling from No. 2 to No. 10 in The Associated Press Top 25, leaving No. 2 Cal (5-0, 2-0) and No. 14 Arizona State (6-0, 3-0) as the conference's only unbeaten teams.
USC coach Pete Carroll and his staff will have to decide this week whether to start Booty despite the injury or give untested sophomore Mark Sanchez the start against Arizona.
Source: ESPN.com
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