Author Archives: David Woods

Starting off 6-2 would be great for most college athletic teams. For the UCLA men’s water polo team, though, it is a sign that there is a lot of work to be done. With a 10-9 semifinal loss to the No. 4 ranked Stanford Cardinal in the SoCal Tournament last Sunday, the young and inexperienced […]

The defense of the men’s water polo national championship begins now. Sort of. After the euphoria that comes with a championship, a coach will usually tell his players something to the effect of, next year, we start at square one. For the Bruins this year, that is a more literal warning than usual. With the […]

Baseball is perhaps the single greatest human invention ““ after duct tape and cheese. There is certainly no other professional sport designed with such perfection that there has been no major change in the rules of the game since its advent (though those of you who are still hopelessly put out by the designated hitter […]

It appears that whatever bad luck was haunting the aluminum bat of Chris Denove this year during the Bruins’ abysmal season has not carried over to his wooden bat in the minors. Denove, who batted .227 in his final season with the Bruins after being an offensive force in the years preceding, is batting a […]

At first glance, it might seem like the Major League Baseball draft really took the luster off of UCLA head baseball coach John Savage’s first recruiting class in Westwood. But even though five of their top recruits from the 2006 baseball recruiting class were drafted, the Bruins have come out relatively unscathed. The only player […]

The story is essentially suited for the famous question: for love or money? If you had the choice between marrying the person you love or taking the path to financial success, which would you choose? For UCLA pitcher Brian Schroeder, the choice between entering the 2003 Major League draft and marrying his high school sweetheart […]

In his first three years, Brett Ormsby’s performances were defined by one standard: that of Stanford’s three-time NCAA player of the year Tony Azevedo. But that is not the case anymore. Ormsby, who won the NCAA player of the year award, not only rose out of the shadow of Azevedo, but helped his Bruins defeat […]