Brigham Young University senior opposite hitter Joe Hillman is allegedly in violation of NCAA rules by currently playing in his sixth year of college volleyball, according to an opposing coach, but he is still expected to start in matches at UCLA on Thursday and Friday. A pair of BYU wins could clinch the top seed […]
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M. volleyball: Acosta, Wenger in jostle for starting position
For UCLA outside hitter Jonathan Acosta, there will be no moping on the sideline. “The team’s winning,” he explained. But Acosta, a junior, has to be wondering why as the team’s leading attacker last season, he has not appeared in a match since March 12 when he led UCLA with 10 kills in a three-game […]
Dorrell not to blame for last season’s football flops
Ah, spring! The flowers are blooming, the birds are singing, and the stench of the UCLA football team is in the air as the Bruins kick off spring practices Wednesday afternoon. Yes, that is blood you smell following a forgettable season in which rookie coach Karl Dorrell lost his last five games. Just to jog […]
M.volleyball: Bruins rise against Waves
MALIBU “”mdash; It had been a house of horrors for the UCLA men’s volleyball team. The lights and speakers in Pepperdine’s Firestone Fieldhouse that dangled over the Bruins made it deafeningly clear that the Bruins had not won a single game there since 2001, when coach Al Scates won his 1,000th career match. Leave it […]
[Basketball Insert] M. basketball: Volleyball player to focus on basketball
UCLA redshirt freshman forward Matt McKinney informed volleyball coach Al Scates on Monday that he will skip out on the remainder of the volleyball season in order to concentrate on basketball. “He let me know he’s dedicating himself to working out in basketball,” Scates said. McKinney missed the entire season due to a broken left […]
[Basketball Insert] M. basketball: Not so mighty Bruins
At times, the results that Ben Howland produced were almost laughable. The UCLA Bruins would bumble, stumble and then mumble about how they had tried. But effort quickly became a dead issue. That’s because while this 11-17 season couldn’t have been what Howland had drawn up in his mind when he left Pittsburgh in the […]
M. volleyball: Bruins to focus on blocking Anteater ascent
It’s a sign of the times, really. Last year, a loss like the sweep suffered by the UCLA men’s volleyball team at Long Beach State on Friday would have caused currents of change significant enough to part even the quasi-impenetrable Blue Curtain. This year, though, with the Bruins looking to make a national championship run, […]