UCLA football coach Karl Dorrell has found the final piece in his coaching puzzle, and it’s Jim Svoboda. On Wednesday, Svoboda was named the team’s quarterbacks coach, replacing former offensive coordinator Steve Axman, who also handled the quarterbacks coaching duties. Svoboda comes from Division II Northwest Missouri State University, where he spent 10 years as […]
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M.volleyball: Squad to hit No. 1 Hawai’i courts
You’d think that the sun, sand and waves might distract the UCLA men’s volleyball team when it travels to Oahu for a pair of matches against Hawai’i tonight and Saturday. But the only thing distracting the No. 2 Bruins is Hawai’i’s No. 1 ranking ““ the Bruins want it. “I think guys will stay out […]
A scientific look at how athletes track themselves
I was at an apartment party on Landfair Avenue on Saturday night, and it was the most excruciating 15 minutes of my life. Everywhere, people were touching me, and everything smelled like alcohol. All I could think of was this one line in the last Sartre book I read: “Man, this is so plebian.” For […]
Football: Football loses 9th player with Patton’s academic dismissal
Redshirt freshman defensive tackle Thomas Patton was dismissed by the university for academic reasons, a UCLA spokesman announced Tuesday. Patton, an Oakland native, appeared in nine games and recorded three tackles this past season. He will try to re-enroll at UCLA this summer after making up coursework at a junior college, the spokesman indicated. Patton […]
M. volleyball: No. 1 ranking slides with loss to 49ers, but Bruins still confident
When UCLA men’s volleyball faces UC San Diego tonight at Pauley Pavilion, it will utilize new knowledge in the battle against the Tritons. But the Bruins are not pleased that this new knowledge results from a 3-0 defeat at the hands of Long Beach State on Wednesday night. “Any time you lose a match, you […]
Shake off the anxiety and shoot for the enchilada
Tracie will have a cheese enchilada. And how is she paying for it? With a free throw. Now as far as I know, you can’t normally buy stuff by making free throws. (The last time I brought a basketball on a date, it was trouble.) But with the Cingular Wireless Halftime Supershot contest, you can. […]
Football: Axman let go; Cable moves up
Months of speculation were finally put to rest Thursday when UCLA football coach Karl Dorrell announced that offensive coordinator Steve Axman has been fired. Axman will be replaced by offensive line coach Tom Cable, who was brought onto the UCLA coaching staff last month after serving four years as head coach at Idaho. “It became […]