Author Archives: Andrew Finley

UCLA is more than halfway through its season and like so many other schools, it’s having its share of problems. The struggles on defense and injuries across the board have been well-documented, but it’s the healthiest Bruins on the offensive side of the ball that I’m worried about. You see, a few weeks ago, people […]

Jerry Yu and Nick Corpuz had it all planned out. Yu, a recent UCLA graduate, was going to catch a flight from New York to Los Angeles on Thursday night. He’d then meet up with Corpuz, a fifth-year, and the two friends would hit the road north for Saturday’s football game against Stanford. But Yu […]

Matt Moore’s return to the Rose Bowl on Saturday seems to have everyone in Westwood talking. Everyone except the Bruins themselves. Lots of players are trivializing it. Drew Olson himself is deflecting it. And coach Karl Dorrell would rather not talk about it. They’re all either dodging or downplaying the subject, as though the Oregon […]

There’s a lot of buzz surrounding UCLA’s football team these days, what with its undefeated record and all. A buddy of mine first told me Drew Olson was the second coming of Cade McNown, then Troy Aikman, and I’m still waiting to see if he goes all the way back to 1967 Heisman Trophy winner […]

Common sense dictates that this will all catch up to UCLA. That one of these games, the defense will bend, break and fold like an overmatched poker player. That one of Drew Olson’s last-minute passes will slip out of his receiver’s hands and drop incomplete. That UCLA will eventually fall just short after trailing big […]

During their long two-hour bus ride from the Spokane airport to Pullman, the UCLA football players will have plenty of time to think about things. Things like their No. 12 ranking, last Tuesday’s history lecture, or even those seemingly abandoned shacks sprinkled across the barren Palouse. What should also cross their minds is that they’re […]

I had this column written midway through the fourth quarter. I was going to tell you not to be surprised that UCLA couldn’t prevail with a beleaguered defensive line going against a behemoth running offense. That you should have seen this coming after the struggles it faced in the Washington game. By the game’s final […]