Author Archives: David Regan

The magnitude of California’s budget crisis is being felt as far as the UCLA athletic department, as rising student fees and budget cuts have the department staring at a deficit of approximately $1.7 million for this fiscal year, which began July 1. In a letter dated July 2, University of California President Richard Atkinson warned […]

UCLA sophomore forward Iris Mora will be returning to the Bruins’ women’s soccer team next season after all. However, if 90 minutes of soccer had gone differently for the Mexican women’s national soccer team in the July 12 game against Japan, she would be representing Mexico in the upcoming Women’s World Cup held in the […]

I’ve been a Dodger fan my entire life. As a true fan, I try to remain positive through the good times and the bad. But now, things are just getting ridiculous. At this point, I’m angrier at the organization than I have ever been. If I gathered up nine random people off the street, they […]

To want to help immediately is natural; to actually be able to do so is special. So the story goes with incoming freshman tennis sensation Robert Yim. At a school with a tennis program as storied as that of UCLA, players usually have to pay their dues and work their way up through the program […]

So, I was at this graduation party for my girlfriend the other night. She’s going to Berkeley next year, which is pretty cool, I guess. Since I decided not to attend Berkeley, I figure my role as the understanding boyfriend is to remind her constantly why UCLA is the better school. This fact made UCLA’s […]

Some past and present Bruin athletes will temporarily hang up their blue and gold this summer. Instead, they will don the more patriotic red, white and blue. UCLA is well represented on many national teams competing this summer, including softball teams at the Pan American Games and Canada Cup, the women’s soccer Under-21 team and […]

Class. Tennis. Study. Sleep. If you’re Lassi Ketola, this has been your life for the past year. There just hasn’t been time for anything else. Ketola, a senior from the UCLA men’s tennis team, has taken 69 units since the summer. Those units have come from 16 classes, which is a lot for anyone. But Ketola […]