Hounded by a pair of Oregon defenders midway through the first half, Michael Fey heaved up a desperate shot, his lower body falling away from the basket as his eyes glanced up belatedly toward it. The circus layup bounced high off the glass and dropped in. It was that kind of game for the UCLA […]
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M. hoops: Farmar does it all in win over OSU
With UCLA struggling to find its offensive rhythm for the greater part of Thursday night, Jordan Farmar was doing the little things to keep his team in the game. In the waning moments though, his small contributions had a monumental impact as the Bruins pulled away from Oregon State and inched closer to an NCAA […]
Fans can heckle Bruins to victory
Basketball and football are too distant and loud. Tennis and golf are too civil and elegant. But volleyball is indeed a heckler’s paradise. Sitting courtside while the Bruins were getting swept by Hawai’i on Saturday night, there wasn’t much to smile about. Then Paul George showed up in Game 3. George, a redshirt sophomore on […]
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 […]