W. basketball: Team leader able to play after head injury in Oregon game

Life without Nikki Blue is one thought that no player or coach on the UCLA women’s basketball team ever wants to encounter again. Already having endured a right ankle sprain and a mild concussion, Blue received a blow to the face causing her neck to be jolted back during the waning seconds of UCLA’s 70-54 […]

M. soccer: Funeral on Tampa field honors former Bruin soccer coach

UCLA men’s soccer coach Jorge Salcedo and other athletic department officials were among those who gathered for a memorial service at Pepin/Rood Stadium in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday in honor of former Bruin men’s soccer coach Tom Fitzgerald, who died Saturday. Fitzgerald, who was coaching at the University of Tampa this year, passed away after […]

Former UCLA men’s soccer coach dies in auto accident

The soccer community was stunned on Saturday upon hearing the news that former UCLA men’s soccer coach Tom Fitzgerald had been killed in an auto accident. Fitzgerald was injured in a motorcycle accident just south of Tampa, Fla., where Fitzgerald was coaching, and was taken to Tampa General Hospital, where he later passed away. Tampa […]