Author Archives: David Woods

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; […]

Click here to see a slideshow of photos from the past few days at the 2006 Countrywide Classic. In a field full of favorites, it was an unexpected final. Tommy Haas versus Dmitry Tursunov? No Agassi? No Roddick? In the end, it didn’t matter. In one of the better matches of the tournament, Haas defeated […]

Read to the end of the story to see DB Video coverage. In his fourth season at the helm of the UCLA football program, and in the year following his most successful season, Karl Dorrell is still searching for the goal that has eluded him for his entire coaching career: winning the Pac-10. Even last […]

What was supposed to be an easy day for Andy Roddick turned out to be a trial. What was supposed to be a triumph ended in pain. In the third set of the No. 1 seed’s hard-fought 6-7(3), 6-3, 6-2 victory over American Scott Oudsema, Roddick felt a sharp stabbing pain in his side that […]

And down goes No. 2. At Tuesday night’s continuation of the first round of the 2006 Countrywide Classic, two-seeded Lleyton Hewitt was taken down by unseeded Paul Goldstein in straight sets 6-4, 6-4. Hewitt, ranked 13th in the world, was one of the favorites to win the tournament until Goldstein, ranked 85th, beat him. Goldstein […]

Roy Encarnacion loves UCLA. The 1995 graduate was here for the last basketball championship, and has spent the moments since thinking of ways to get back to UCLA. “I didn’t want to leave,” Encarnacion said. “I still think, “˜Can I get back to UCLA?’ For me, it’s just being there. There’s always a buzz on […]

With just a few strokes of the pen, the UCLA athletic department has made great strides in changing its penny-pinching reputation. On Friday, UCLA announced that men’s basketball coach Ben Howland and football coach Karl Dorrell had both accepted multi-year contract extensions. Howland, coming off a season in which his team fell 40 minutes short […]