Before the year began, most of college baseball expected the UCLA baseball team to be hanging around Westwood right now, resting after a fourth straight mediocre season out of the postseason. But the Bruins, who turned in one of the nation’s most surprising seasons, are happily in Oklahoma City, preparing for tomorrow night’s opening NCAA […]
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Baseball: Baseball seeded third in bracket
The UCLA baseball team is headed to Oklahoma. As unglamorous as that may sound, the Bruins wouldn’t have it any other way. Their season-long goal of reaching the postseason officially became a reality at the Monday morning NCAA Regional selection show, as UCLA earned the third seed out of four teams in the Oklahoma City […]
Baseball: Lessons & legacies
It was a typical day of class, a lecture hall filled with students. In the back of the room, the professor spotted an unfamiliar 65-year-old man standing there and asked the man who he is. “I’m a teacher too, and I’m here to enjoy your outstanding lecture,” UCLA baseball coach Gary Adams responded. But Adams […]
Baseball: Tied for third in Pac-10, Bruins eyeing first
This is all you need to know about how well last weekend’s series against Washington went for the UCLA baseball team ““ the Bruins are talking about first place. After taking two of three from the then-first place No. 14 Huskies in Seattle, the Bruins, sitting comfortably in a tie for third place in the […]
Baseball: Baseball takes 2 of 3 in series against No. 14 Washington
In the UCLA baseball team’s most clutch performance of the year, the Bruins took two of three at No. 14 Washington and almost assured themselves a spot in the NCAA Tournament. “To pick up two out of three was so pivotal because of the timing coming at the end of the season,” coach Gary Adams […]
M.Golf: Men swing into lead at West Regional
The UCLA men’s golf team started building some early momentum for next month’s NCAA Tournament, grabbing the lead in the West Regional through the first day of action Thursday. Needing only to finish in the top 10 of the 27-team field to advance, the top-seeded Bruins overcame a relatively slow start to fire a combined […]
Lakers v. Kings: best rivalry in the West
Everyone at UCLA should be rooting for one thing tonight ““ a Sacramento Kings victory. This has little to do with your relative affection for or probable hatred of our state capital’s beloved team. It has everything to do with the darlings of this campus ““ the Los Angeles Lakers. A Sacramento victory over the […]