When the UCLA football team travels to Pullman to face No. 12 Washington State on Saturday, the conference championship could be on the line. Last week’s 21-14 loss to lowly Stanford highlighted weaknesses that UCLA (6-3, 4-1 Pac-10) will have to correct if it hopes to compete with the Cougars. The Bruins have been criticized […]
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Swimmers make waves on grocery store excursion
Student athletes at UCLA are just like you and me: They have to eat. When they get hungry, they don’t have people chew their food for them. This means that they must go to the supermarket, just like I do. But one thing I have always wondered is, what kind of foodstuffs do these athletes […]
Football: Moore to start despite 8 sacks
UCLA sophomore quarterback Matt Moore was sacked eight times in the Bruins’ 21-14 loss to Stanford on Saturday. While all those sacks did not make Moore look good, UCLA coach Karl Dorrell said many of the sacks rest on the shoulders of the offensive line. So, even though backup Drew Olson was inserted at the […]
Football: Win not in the cards for UCLA
PALO ALTO “”mdash; Anyone remember 2001? The UCLA football team does. And after Saturday’s 21-14 loss at Stanford, the Bruins will do anything to ensure that no tailspin occurs like it did in 2001, when the undefeated Bruins lost to the Cardinal and then went 1-3 on the rest of the season after starting the […]
Football: Dorrell’s Stevenson Ranch home escapes line of fire
UCLA football coach Karl Dorrell’s home in Stevenson Ranch appears to have been spared by the Southern California wildfires that ravaged the area. Dorrell and his family were evacuated from his home on Tuesday when the Simi Valley fire came within one mile of his subdivision of the community in Santa Clarita Valley. However, fires […]
Football: Having a Ball
Under Dave Ball’s picture in the UCLA Football Media Guide, next to hobbies is the word “drawing.” Dave Ball is an artiste. And not just in the way he artfully dives over running backs and crawls on all fours to sack opposing quarterbacks. Dave Ball likes to doodle in class. “It’s not like I have […]
Comic Tom Snyders bicycles for laughs
Halfway through our fireside chat, I had to confess something to Tom Snyders: I hadn’t ridden a bicycle in 10 years. While he conceded that Los Angeles is a ridiculous place to ride a bike, Snyders, on the other hand, has made a living off of his Schwinn. For the past 16 years Snyders has […]