The 2003 Pac-10 media day was appropriately held at a hotel adjacent to LAX ““ recently coaches in the conference have been taking off and landing as often as the nearby jets. Mike Riley has returned as head coach to Oregon State, replacing Dennis Erickson, while Bill Doba replaced Mike Price; Keith Gilbertson was hired […]
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[Online exclusive] Mercedes-Benz Cup: Farewell comes early for retiring Chang
Tennis legend Michael Chang’s stop at the Mercedes Benz Cup during his season-long farewell tour was brief. The 31-year-old lost to No. 5 seeded Mark Philippoussis 6-2, 6-4 Thursday afternoon in second-round action at UCLA’s Los Angeles Tennis Center. Chang, who has appeared in the tournament more times than any other player, won the tournament […]
Make your apartment chores competitive
With both of my roommates out of town for the weekend, I faced a harsh realization ““ if I didn’t learn how to cook, there was a chance I would die. Or upon return my roommates would find me on the floor, curled in the fetal position, sucking on my thumb, a stack of empty […]
No end in sight for state budget impasse
After the California Assembly rejected two budget plans Friday, it appears Monday’s midnight Constitutional deadline will pass with no budget in sight, leaving state and University of California officials to grapple with the implications of functioning without a budget at the start of a new fiscal year. Last year’s state budget was not signed until […]
Enjoy world of sports as a student
Listen freshmen: You see that big piece of grass between the Wooden Recreation Center and Drake Stadium? The one that is the size of nine football fields or the Cerritos Auto Square? Yeah, well for the past two years ““ my entire tenure at UCLA thus far ““ it has been a big, stupid dirt […]
Former receiver returns from Idaho St. to finish degree
So it’s your senior year, and you’ve been projected to start at weak side linebacker for the UCLA football team. But instead you are in Pocatello, Idaho ““ and even that move isn’t permanent. Welcome to Audie Attar’s strange year. Attar was dismissed from the team last June by then-head coach Bob Toledo for violating […]
One Daniel, Two Daniel, Gold Daniel, Blue Daniel
When I told my parents I had scored an interview with Dan Guerrero, they were pretty worried. “You better get your act together for this,” my dad said. My dad was right; I mean, this guy fired Bob Toledo and Steve Lavin, so imagine what he could do to me. I conducted the interview with […]