Author Archives: Diamond Leung

Team faces crucial Hawai’i matches with good attitude

Slowly but surely, the UCLA men’s volleyball team has begun to restore its damaged aura. The bumps and bruises, for the most part, have healed. A healthy attitude, however, quite possibly the only thing the Bruins haven’t lost this season, is now as strong as ever. Fittingly, archrival and defending national champion Hawai’i is coming […]

Volleyball lineup rearranged as some players heal, others remain injured

As UCLA men’s volleyball head coach Al Scates read off the Lewis University roster, he noted that all of the Flyers’ best players were not from the continental United States. Ironically, Scates will be introducing a foreign element into his own lineup as No. 9 UCLA tries to topple No. 5 Lewis tonight at Pauley […]

Manning pleads not guilty to felony assault charge

UCLA senior all-conference cornerback Ricky Manning, Jr. pleaded not guilty to one count of felony assault Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. Manning, 22, was arraigned due to a fight outside Madison’s Neighborhood Bar & Grill last April. He was accused of punching a customer in the parking lot of the Westwood restaurant. A trial […]

Faoa agrees to pick up trash with guilty plea

Asi Faoa, a junior football player, will spend 180 days picking up roadside garbage for the California Department of Transportation over the next two years instead of doing jail time, a Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday. “It was one or the other,” deputy district attorney Geoffrey Lewin said. “(Faoa) chose to do Caltrans.” A report […]