M. tennis: Men’s tennis falls to USC despite early lead

Tennis is an individual sport by nature, but UCLA fell apart collectively on Tuesday at crosstown rival USC. After taking four of the first six singles sets and the first two points of the match, the Bruins collapsed, falling 5-2 to the 17th -ranked Trojans. “We really let them off the hook badly,” UCLA coach […]

Hardly handicapped

Circling around the parking lot at a local Torrance gym, Atif Moon pulled into the handicapped spot, not necessarily thinking twice about the fact that he didn’t have a placard. After finishing his workout and finding a ticket pressed against his car’s windshield, he was obviously frustrated. After all, it’s not often that lifelong paraplegics […]

M. hoops: UCLA puts on a clinic against USC’s zone defense

USC coach Jim Saia didn’t think his team could match up playing man-to-man defense against UCLA. Yet he couldn’t have anticipated the Bruins dissecting the Trojan zone the way they did. One month ago, UCLA’s struggles against the zone defense gave opponents an incentive to use it. On Thursday, the team showed how a concentrated […]

[Basketball preview] Rivalry game a must-win

The sense of urgency the Bruins are feeling these days is nothing new. However, the stakes they’re playing for heading into tonight’s showdown against USC are entirely different. Buried near the bottom of the conference standings the last two seasons, UCLA (14-9, 8-7 Pac-10) was scrambling for season-ending wins just to get into the eight-team […]