Author Archives: Ben Azar

That was fun. From beginning to end, UCLA’s thrashing of USC was the perfect game for the players, students and fans in attendance. More importantly, it made a big assertion about the current state of the rivalry; USC may beat UCLA in football, but even though they’re getting better, they aren’t anywhere close to UCLA […]

When the No. 16-seeded UCLA women’s volleyball team (20-10) travels to Omaha, Neb., to face the top-seeded Nebraska Cornhuskers (29-1) in the third round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday, the Bruins will be entering uncharted territory. As of 9 a.m. on Wednesday, the NCAA Regional had already sold a new NCAA record of 13,252 […]

When the UCLA women’s volleyball team takes on Kansas in the first round of the NCAA Tournament tonight, it will be a match-up of two teams going in totally opposite directions. The Bruins (18-10, 10-8 Pac-10) finished their season by winning seven of their last nine matches including an emotional victory over No. 3 Washington […]

After an inspired victory Saturday night against California, the UCLA women’s volleyball team was rewarded Sunday with the 16th overall seed in the 64-team NCAA Tournament. UCLA’s 3-1 (30-18, 30-27, 28-30, 30-28) victory over the No. 12 Bears on Saturday night gave the two teams identical records (18-10, 10-8 Pac-10). But it was UCLA and […]

After ending a six-match winning streak in disappointing fashion by losing to Arizona last Saturday, the UCLA women’s volleyball team will have a great chance to make up for it against two higher-ranked teams this weekend. The Bruins will face No. 5 Stanford (23-5, 12-4 Pac-10) on Friday at 7 p.m. and No. 12 California […]

Hard worker, but underdeveloped. Talented, but undersized. Fringe prospect. These were phrases that UCLA freshman defensive tackle Chase Moline heard critics and scouts describe him as a recruit coming out of high school. But rather than let the critics get to him and affect him negatively, Moline used their words as motivation and worked hard […]

Just one month ago, a split against the Arizona schools may have been acceptable for the UCLA women’s volleyball team. But as the team has grown and improved since then, its newfound success has brought higher expectations. Despite Friday night’s 3-0 (30-28, 30-26, 20-27) sweep over the Arizona State Sun Devils, UCLA’s 3-0 (30-26, 30-27, […]