n mid-August, Nebraska football coach Bo Pelini took a hammer to a phone that went off during a team meeting. The phone’s owner walked out, with Pelini following the player out the door shortly afterward.
Author Archives: Emilio Ronquillo
Quiet Confidence
Prior to the 2012 U.S. Open, Dennis Novikov was not sure he could ever succeed in becoming a professional tennis player.
Retiring UCLA assistant women’s tennis coach brings joy and love of sport to team
No one radiated a sunnier mood during a balmy NCAA Tournament practice than the 65-year old with a knee replacement and less than a month left of unretired life.
Florida Gators swallow up Bruins in the NCAA women’s tennis championship finals
Living up to their apex predator namesake, the Florida Gators victimized the UCLA women’s tennis team with their deadly prowess at depth and on the surface, terrorizing the Bruins 4-0 en route to their second consecutive national championship.
Women's tennis bests USC for spot in NCAA Championship game
A composed McCall Jones came up with some brief but fighting words for USC after suffering through a 6-1 senior-day thrashing at the hands of the Trojans.
Women’s tennis advances to NCAA quarterfinals after snapping Rice’s Cinderella-story streak
Having awoken in the eastern time zone four times this week, UCLA women’s tennis may have had as much ease clicking off their alarms Thursday morning as they did sounding the bell on Cinderella. A 4-0 victory over an upstart Rice University team that reached the Sweet 16 through two straight upset wins proved that the Bruins have little regard for fairy tales, with each UCLA player being up at least a set by the time midnight struck on the Owls.
Women’s tennis defeats Long Beach State 4-0 to head to NCAA Sweet 16
Contrary to a stream of “beach” chants and a black-and-yellow “Go Beach” sign enthusiastically pumped in the air by a jumping member of a mixed crowd, UCLA’s 4-0 home win over Long Beach State proved to be anything but a day spent enjoying steady waves along the shoreline.