Author Archives: Bruce Tran

I’m not too much of a gambling man, although I do believe Texas Hold ‘Em is a true sport because it’s televised on ESPN. I would have said that Karl Dorrell’s emotionless glare for most of the season made him the greatest bluffer in the world. But while many of you may be overlooking Wyoming, […]

Screw moral victories. UCLA won this one. By virtue of showing a national audience how far a little heart and hard work will go, by virtue of UCLA coach Karl Dorrell showing what he and his program are all about, by virtue of pushing USC to the limits in its national championship run, if nothing […]

What is sports? To be sure it is a broad question, easily answered by going to a dictionary, but Merriam-Webster doesn’t have the answer I’m looking for. No matter ““ I believe it goes beyond a simple bland objective definition because sports cannot be objectified. And on this, the greatest sports week of the UCLA […]

In preparation for this week’s football game, I went out and rented “The Mighty Ducks.” I came out of that movie pumped up and ready to kick the feathers off the Hawks (the very good team that loses to a bunch of underdogs in the movie). Until I realized UCLA resembled those Hawks, at least […]

The Red Sox had their curse reversed. The Patriots had their streak stopped. Heck, even George Dubya won, despite the fact that the Washington Redskins won the previous Sunday ““ an incumbent has not won the White House when the Redskins lost the Sunday before Election Day since 1933. How dare Bush defy this superstition? […]

Revenge is a dish best served cold, and if memory serves me correctly, it was almost exactly a year ago when last year’s downward spin started with a shocking loss at the hands of Stanford. This year’s downward slide has started a little earlier, perhaps because it is a leap year or something else that’s […]

So UCLA lost to that OPU (other public university ““ abbreviation is pronounced as o-poop) up in the Bay Area, and by looking at the final score, 45-28, it would seem that the Bruins were outmatched in every way. Never fear, Bruin fans “”mdash; your eternal pessimist actually thinks there might be some cause for […]