I had a lot of growing up to do when I first got to UCLA. I came from the smallest high school in a small city. My world was pretty black and white, and I was very green. The Daily Bruin newsroom is where I grew up. Where I made a ton of mistakes, both […]
Author Archives: Claire Fahy
Claire-ification: Experiences as a Daily Bruin Sports writer and editor
There are a lot of perks to covering sports for the Daily Bruin. I got to attend almost every football and basketball game last year, travelled to six different games in three different states and was paid to write about it all. I was given a platform to voice my opinions, concerns and insecurities about […]
Claire-ification: Hope Solo’s comments not grounds for dismissal
The Olympics officially ended last Sunday, but the scandalous storylines that surfaced during the three-week-long Games are far from over. The U.S. Soccer Federation terminated Hope Solo’s contract Wednesday after comments the famed goalie made following the U.S.’s shockingly early quarterfinal exit. Solo called the Swedish team who beat the U.S. “cowards” for their defensive […]
Claire-ification: Testimony on Bradley shows the human cost of placing success first
I covered football for six months at the beginning of last school year. Before that, I worked the men’s volleyball beat for two years, with some men’s water polo and soccer in the mix. If I had to take all the experiences I had and boil them down to one lesson it would be this: […]
Claire-ification: Collegiate athletes’ freedom of speech should not be silenced
We have a running tally in the sports section of all the clichéd responses we receive during interviews. When training new writers, we place special emphasis on answers that don’t count as answers because they are so unoriginal. The dynamic between reporters with hard questions and athletes with soft answers is so ingrained in sports […]
Claire-ification: WNBA players are in a league of their own, let’s treat them that way
The all-girls high school I went to in San Francisco had a population of 200 kids on the days everyone showed up. Needless to say, we were a small school. Above all of our distinguishing characteristics, though, we were known for our basketball team. Walk into the Herbert Center gymnasium at Convent of the Sacred […]
Claire-ification: NFL must do more to help troubled Johnny Manziel
The kid smirks in his mugshot like a high school senior who got pulled over on the way to prom. Except with this kid, the police aren’t crashing a one-night party – they’re intervening in a yearslong bender. Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel turned himself in last week for domestic assault charges stemming from […]