Less than one week after setting the all-time NCAA Division I record for highest single-meet team total, the No. 1 ranked UCLA gymnastics team faltered at No. 15 Washington, 197.225 to 197.1. Before a crowd of 2,161 Husky faithful, UCLA’s usually consistent bars team recorded three consecutive falls by Holly Murdock, Lori Winn and Kristen […]
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Gymnastics: Beating the odds
While a beating heart is buried within us all, senior gymnast Kristen Maloney’s is beating a little stronger, very nearly bursting out of her chest. “She is an amazingly talented gymnast with the heart of a lion,” UCLA coach Valorie Kondos Field said. “She’s this little waif of a thing, and she is so incredibly […]
Grandstand fans plan a hoot in left field
What’s small, obnoxiously loud, and scattered around cities housing MLB teams? I’ll give you a hint, sports fans: the answer is not illegitimate children. Give up? It’s grandstand fan clubs! The small groups of die-hard baseball fans you see sitting in the cheap seats and wearing ridiculous costumes are the heart and soul of any […]
Gymnastics: Gymnasts tie all-time NCAA scoring record
Oregon State came into Pauley Pavilion at a bad time. After losing Friday to Cal State Fullerton, 194.275 to 193.6, and posting the team’s lowest scoring total of the season in the process, the third-ranked UCLA gymnastics team had something to prove Sunday. And they did so in decisive fashion, defeating the Beavers 198.875 to […]
Gymnastics: Unchallenged gymnasts take win
The second-ranked UCLA gymnastics team got its work done early this holiday weekend, defeating California and Seattle Pacific in a triangular meet at Haas Pavilion on Friday night. The Bruins approached the hallowed 198 mark for the second consecutive meet, falling just short with a 197.8 team total. The mark also was just shy of […]
A baseball tale unlikely to be found at UCLA
All right, sports fans. It’s that time of the year again: the smell of freshly mowed grass, the “thump” of genuine leather mitts, the “ping” of double-walled aluminum alloy on a horsehide Rawlings. It’s college baseball time. With nothing better to do on a Friday night, my brother and I wanted to catch our first game […]
Gymnastics: Gymnasts work to balance injuries, lineup for Sunday
The third-ranked UCLA gymnastics team will take on Pac-10 foe No. 7 Stanford at Pauley Pavilion on Sunday. Stanford and UCLA are the only two teams to win the Pac-10 title in the last seven years, including last year’s UCLA victory at Pauley Pavilion. UCLA is coming off a dominant performance against Cal State Fullerton […]