What a year UCLA sports has had. Four NCAA Championships. Both major sports having horrible, but memorable years. Joy. Depression. Laughter. Winning. Losing. This year had it all. It marked the beginning of the Ben Howland and Karl Dorrell eras. It marked the end of the Gary Adams and Tom Fitzgerald eras. This year had […]
Author Archives: Gilbert Quiñonez
Bruins’ continuing success more than sheer luck
Should I use the D-word, or is it still too early? You may say it’s only two championships in a row. You may say this team is losing too many important seniors. You may say this team underachieved during the regular season. But think about it for a second. This core group of players on […]
Success isn’t always reflected in final results
This team had me fooled. I thought it’d finally get the monkey off its back and win the elusive NCAA Championship. It just ran into a Baylor team that may have played one of the best collegiate tennis matches ever. Monday’s NCAA semifinal win over Illinois ““ a team that had won 64 matches in […]
Huge weekend for UCLA promises more to come
What a weekend. This has to be among the best weekends in UCLA sports history. Unless there was a weekend when two championships were won, how could a weekend top this one? Keep in mind, weekends like this could be commonplace at UCLA. These teams just seem to keep getting better. Consider the following: “¢bull; […]
Playoff fans in league of their own
There was one no-hitter, two extra-inning games, one upset and one near-huge upset. Thursday’s first day of the NCAA Softball Regionals at UCLA would’ve satisfied even the most hard-to-please sports fan. Five games. Thirteen hours. Eight teams. One hundred percent of fans going home knowing they saw a great game. In how many sports can […]
W. golf: Women’s golf in 2nd at NCAAs
Not surprisingly, two Bruins are among the top five after the first day of the NCAA Women’s Golf Championships. Not surprisingly, two Bruins shot under par at the tough Grand National Lake Course in Opelika, Ala. Not surprisingly, two Bruins shot under par on the back nine. But the two Bruins that led UCLA to […]
UCLA names new athletic director
Petrina Long was hired as the new UCLA associate athletic director and senior women’s administrator, replacing longtime administrator Betsy Stephenson. Before being hired on Friday by UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero, Long held the same position at UC Irvine, where Guerrero was the athletic director until 2002. Stephenson will leave UCLA in June to take […]