The UCLA women’s soccer team is undefeated no more. The No. 3 Bruins suffered their first defeat of the season Friday, a 5-2 loss at the hands of No. 1 North Carolina (9-0-0) in the Duke/adidas Women’s Soccer Classic in Durham. The entire weekend wasn’t lost, however, as UCLA (5-1-2) was able to respond Sunday […]
Author Archives: David Regan
W.soccer: Only men can be key players in sports world
Question: If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, did it really make a sound? Another question: If the Detroit Shock wins the WNBA championship and nobody knows it, did it really happen? Okay, so maybe some of you knew it. I knew because it was in The Los Angeles Times. The […]
W.soccer: Fledgling WUSA falls to severe financial troubles
The Women’s United Soccer Association is no more. The league suspended its operations Monday after a unanimous vote from its board of governors. This announcement comes just days before World Cup 2003 is set to kick off. Gone with the league are the hopes of many great female soccer players who planned to play professional […]
Tennis star Robert Yim forgoes UCLA to chase professional career
Tennis phenom Robert Yim will not be coming to UCLA after all; instead, he will pursue a professional tennis career. After signing Yim, the No. 1-ranked junior player in the country, to a national letter of intent, everything was in place for him to start at UCLA in the fall. He continued to play in […]
Soccer freshmen roll in with confidence, promise
Freshmen are supposed to live in fear of their senior counterparts. They are tolerated, but not liked. Though maybe the norm, this scenario is certainly not the case on the UCLA women’s soccer team. The Bruin freshmen, who comprise the nation’s No. 2 recruiting class, are not only talented young women capable of making an […]
Women’s team chooses Armstrong as inspiration
The Tour de France has 20 stages. The soccer season has 20 games. A Tour victory is a team effort. A soccer victory is a team effort. Lance Armstrong finishes races. The UCLA women’s soccer team hasn’t been so fortunate. Last season, the Bruins were eliminated by Texas A&M in the third round of the […]
Mercedes-Benz: Writing about men’s tennis proves instructive for the court of life
I spent a good portion of my first year here at UCLA writing about men’s tennis. It’s certainly not the most glamorous of jobs at the Daily Bruin ““ that honor belongs to Bob Costa, our award-winning bowling writer ““ but a nice gig, nonetheless. Anyway, in my year of covering the Bruins, who finished […]