Despite a larger global market of players in baseball and soccer relative to most other sports, international players are almost nonexistent in these college sports. With the intense competition for recruits in each sport, it would seem logical that both sports would tap into the vast resources of mercenary international talent. Yet few do. Despite […]
Author Archives: Ben Peters
College sports vital, yet foreign to some
To correspond with the Daily Bruin’s sports section’s week of examining international players in college sports, I would like to relay a conversation I had with an international student about college sports. While in Singapore fall quarter, my Dutch friend asked me one of the most perplexing philosophical questions I have ever encountered. It ranks […]
Baseball: Baseball wins four on long trip in Hawaii
The Bruin baseball team brought the rain with them from California to Hawaii this past weekend, and luckily, their bats came too. In four mostly windy games, UCLA (9-3) took full advantage of a weak opponent in routing Hawai’i-Hilo (4-18) 10-4, 14-1, 11-0 and 12-1. “We’re going to see some better teams, but baseball is […]
Baseball: Baseball team to play four weekend games at Hawai’i-Hilo
The UCLA baseball team should have a pleasant weekend. For one, instead of spending it in dreary Westwood, it will be enjoying the comfortable high-70s temperatures and sunny skies of Hawaii. Second, it will be enjoying the comfortable competition of 4-15 Hawai’i-Hilo. “I don’t know what I am going to do yet; I’ve never been […]
Biohazard not potent, just very dauntless
It may not be the best team, but it most exemplifies one. Team members know how to play ““ they swing the ball to the open man, they understand when to slow the ball down and when to penetrate, and they play tenacious defense. Too bad they can’t score. They have a wealth of spirit, […]
Baseball: Bruins look to surf over Waves
Two teams coming off rain-soaked weekends match up Tuesday as Pepperdine comes to Westwood to play UCLA. Weather permitting, of course. UCLA spent a wet weekend trying to squeeze in all three games against Pacific. The Bruins managed to fit in only two, barely missing a third game becoming official before it was called off […]
Baseball: UCLA to take on Pacific
If it weren’t for nightfall, the Bruins could very well be 4-1 heading into this weekend’s series against University of the Pacific. In their first road game of the year, the Bruins were in the midst of erasing a four-run ninth inning deficit on Tuesday until the sun set at Loyola Marymount’s lightless Page Stadium. […]