Author Archives: Daniel Miller

Students and alumni who have attended any of UCLA’s match ups against USC in football or men’s basketball over the last few years have probably left feeling a bit frustrated. Well, now is their chance to take matters into their own hands and reclaim Bruin glory. Sunday’s Rivalry 5K Run, which is planned to be […]

You’d be surprised to know how hard it is to find an informative and horridly funny story idea. We’ve got a lot of prima donna athletes at UCLA who are so strange/dumb that they make for great stories, but these strange/dumb characters are just smart enough (by the skin of their teeth) to know that […]

Sometimes I think that readers will grow tired of what one fan called my “sly ingenious stupidity.” While I don’t know exactly what that means, this dilemma does keep me up at night. I’ve been thinking that people tire of columns about things like jai alai and brie. Maybe people want to read something that […]

I spent $30 on this column. So if you like it, give me some money, because my Daily Bruin reimbursement request is still pending. I don’t think the newspaper honors gambling debts. I’ve never really understood gambling. In 2001 I got addicted to those scratcher cards like I did back in the summer of 1974 […]

When someone told me that in UCLA intramural basketball, a technical foul costs $20 and is charged to the aggressor’s BAR account, I completely flipped out. So when I heard that I had the opportunity to sample this newfangled sport, I just couldn’t pass up the chance. In the process of watching a great basketball […]

The UCLA men’s volleyball team arrived in Long Beach Friday with a five-match winning streak and left with a lot of work to do. No. 8 Long Beach State beat No. 7 UCLA 3-1 (31-33, 31-29, 24-30, 24-30) on the strength of its passing game, among other things. “Well what happened was that we didn’t […]