Author Archives: Adam de Jong

SAN JOSE “”mdash; For three years, they had been the firecracker that everyone patiently waited to see light up the sky with an amazing flash, but proved to fizzle out after only a moment. The Bruins have now validated, for at least this weekend, all of the lofty expectations and the nervous gyrations that seemed […]

SAN JOSE “”mdash; Coming into the women’s basketball Pac-10 Tournament, much was made about senior guard Nikki Blue’s last effort to lead her team into the NCAA Tournament. Much was made about junior guard Noelle Quinn’s emergence as one of the elite players in the country after a healthy regular season. But after a first […]

The more Nikki Blue’s game changes, the more it stays the same. The Bruin point guard is playing in her last Pac-10 Tournament with a different role than in previous years. The goal, however, is quite similar. When the UCLA women’s basketball team takes the floor at HP Pavilion on Saturday morning against California, Blue […]

So, Adam Kubalski is the latest example of why hockey is still a second-rate sport in most regions of the country. Don’t blame Kubalski; it isn’t his fault. Nor is it the fault of anyone involved in the UCLA-USC hockey collision from the Pac-8 Championships on Feb. 10. That whole mess just reminds us that […]

The UCLA women’s basketball team might have gotten help from a pair of unlikely sources. While UCLA (17-10, 12-6 Pac-10) helped further its NCAA Tournament candidacy with a road sweep of the Oregon schools, two of its biggest competitors for the precious few postseason spots stumbled and might not have time to get back to […]

Two simple free throws transformed a season from mind-boggling disappointment to radiant hopefulness in a matter of seconds. The UCLA women’s basketball team’s lingering, season-long weakness was once again a problem: They had trouble from the charity stripe in the waning moments of their game at Oregon. But they recovered just in time, and what […]

Road wins aren’t exactly undervalued in college basketball. But this one carried a little extra weight ““ it was one that the UCLA women’s basketball team had to have. UCLA defeated Oregon State 72-59 in Corvallis, Ore. on Thursday night, in a game that started at a sluggish pace but got going in the second […]