Can you imagine a year with two Rose Bowls? One of the ideas discussed at a meeting with Bowl Championship Series officials on Wednesday would add a twist to the previous plan of adding a fifth BCS bowl game. Under the plan, there possibly would be two Rose Bowls in one year. Awful idea. A […]
Author Archives: Gilbert Quiñonez
UCLA tennis teams will pull surefire wins
I guarantee victory. It’s not that hard for me to do with the likes of Oral Roberts coming to town ““ the men’s tennis team, not the dental company. That’s Oral-B. I am going to do what Billy Martin and Stella Sampras Webster are too nice and sportsmanlike to do ““ announce that there’s no […]
Gilbert Quiñonez | Catch and calculate: an athlete with smarts
It’s not often you find a guy who can solve differential equations and hit a baseball 400 feet. It’s not often you see a 6-foot-1, 202-pound, well-built athlete in a math class. But Chris Denove isn’t your stereotypical jock. He isn’t your stereotypical math student either. Denove plays one of the most physically and mentally […]
A spring forecast of UCLA's title hopes
Spring midterms are here, and that means UCLA sports are heating up. For real UCLA sports fans ““ fans who will actually watch a Bruin team other than football or men’s basketball — this is the best time of the year. Every year around May, five to six Bruin sports teams have legitimate chances to […]
Part of Coach Adams’ legend retires this weekend v. USC
A storied rivalry will lose a lot of its luster after this weekend. UCLA baseball coach Gary Adams, who is retiring at the end of the season, will coach his final UCLA-USC series, which begins today. He isn’t exactly too emotional about it. “Honestly, I never even thought about it,” Adams said. “I didn’t realize […]
M. golf: Win for men’s golf gone with the wind in Tucson
After working its way back into contention going into the last round of the Pac-10 Championships, the UCLA men’s golf team put up its worst round of the tournament Wednesday. The Bruins shot a final round of 23-over par and finished in third place at 30-over for the tournament, 20 strokes behind Pac-10 champion Arizona. […]
Men’s volleyball: a “˜gutty little’ team with all the right moves
Gutty little Bruins? Not usually. But the UCLA men’s volleyball team is displaying uncharacteristic grit for a program that is consistently among the nation’s best. Longtime followers of UCLA volleyball will know that Al Scates’ teams haven’t won 18 NCAA Championships by being gutty and little. But this year’s Bruin squad is both of those […]