Author Archives: David Woods

Any football fan can tell you that the game is won at the line of scrimmage. The recent dominance of USC probably had less to do with its Heisman candidates at the skill positions and more to do with an offensive line that kept its quarterback and running backs from getting crushed, and a defensive […]

On Saturday, the UCLA football team held its traditional fall scrimmage, the customary first real look at the team’s makeup for the season opener. The gameplay, however, was anything but traditional. It was a day dominated by defense, a break from the UCLA custom of offense ““ first, last and always. During the 100-play scrimmage […]

Redshirt junior safety Chris Horton spent most of last year on the sidelines with a wrist injury, watching as his football teammates on the defense were run over in game after game. This year, the hard hitter is back, roaming the secondary and hoping to make the center of the field no place for a […]

It is almost like the Intramural Field is itching to cause an injury. It is muddy in spots, sandy in others; it is wet, and the grass is thinning. It is, in the words of redshirt senior wide receiver Junior Taylor, like sand that was “spray-painted green.” It is also a practice field born of […]

Sophomore linebacker John Hale and redshirt freshman defensive tackle Jess Ward were suspended from the first game of the season against Utah on Sept. 2, UCLA football coach Karl Dorrell announced on Tuesday. Hale and Ward were suspended after they pled no contest to charges of misdemeanor assault stemming from an altercation at the home […]

It is the general consensus of basketball analysts that UCLA is slowly returning to the elite levels of recruiting. No more are the Bruins losing out on the high-impact recruits of the West Coast. Kevin Love’s being the most important UCLA recruit since Bill Walton is not just a turn of phrase by these analysts; […]

It has been a trying 2006 for UCLA’s place kicker Justin Medlock. After a drunken driving incident on Dec. 11, 2005, for which he eventually pled guilty and was charged with three years of probation, Medlock was suspended from UCLA’s Sun Bowl matchup against Northwestern. Monday’s initial fall practice was his first time in a […]