The needles never bothered Woody Marks. Mostly because he never looks at them. All USC’s star running back knows is every Wednesday his acupuncturist will put them in whatever muscle has been aching that week.
“I just close my eyes,” Marks says, “and let him do it.”
Over a senior season in which he has carried the ball 174 times — 53 more than his career high — and accumulated 1,024 rushing yards, the first Trojan in seven years to do so, Marks has done whatever he can to keep his body in peak form.