Author Archives: Kevin Bowman

Bruins sport new look on days five, six of football training camp

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — When UCLA finally took the practice field at Cal State San Bernardino in full pads for the first time Friday afternoon, a new electricity was in the air. After four days of minimal contact, the opportunity for players to make and take hits was a welcome change for players and coaches, […]

Bruin becomes mentor in day three of UCLA football training camp

SAN BERNARDINO – After two seasons, Devin Lucien has two touchdowns and 527 yards to his name. The talent is there, but the numbers have yet to fully reflect that. Yet listening to him talk during those two years, he could easily be mistaken for a Heisman candidate. His sessions with the media oozed with […]

League’s talent, QBs the talk of Pac-12 Football Media Day

The Pac-12 hasn’t had a representative in a BCS national championship game in four years. The conference hasn’t had a national champion since USC’s vacated title in 2004. Yet still, its members are convinced the league has never been better. From the five to six teams featured on many preseason top-25 rankings to the slew […]

UCLA earns second-most votes as Pac-12 favorite at football media day

After two consecutive league titles for Stanford, the Cardinal’s run of Pac-12 supremacy will come to an end in 2014, or so predicted the media that attended the first day of Pac-12 Football Media Day on Wednesday. Of 39 voters, 24 selected Oregon as the favorite to win the 2014 Pac-12 title, the fourth time […]

Steve Tisch donates $10M for UCLA concussion research

UCLA’s department of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine received a $10 million donation from New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch for concussion research. The money will go toward the newly renamed UCLA Steve Tisch BrainSPORT Program, of which founder and UCLA professor of neurosurgery and pediatric neurology Dr. Christopher Giza’s primary objective […]