If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. The UCLA athletic department made the right choice on Friday when it named Jorge Salcedo the new men’s soccer coach. Salcedo, an assistant coach at UCLA for the last three years, is a perfect fit for the program. Under coach Tom Fitzgerald, the UCLA men’s soccer team was […]
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M. Tennis: Men’s tennis aces Kentucky
They beat Kentucky, again. For the fifth straight time in a span of five years, the UCLA men’s tennis team beat Kentucky on Thursday, 4-2. The match was in the first round of the USTA/ITA National Team Indoor Championships, played this year in Seattle. The top 16 teams in the nation are invited to the […]
Some pick gymnastics as super, not football
Gymnastics is more exciting than the Super Bowl. At least that’s what the UCLA Athletic Department and the 1,108 fans in attendance at Pauley Pavilion would have you believe. Yes, while every other sports organization in the country tried to schedule around the Super Bowl, and wouldn’t dare schedule against it, UCLA scheduled a gymnastics […]
Swimming: UCLA to duel Stanford and Cal
The two highest-ranked swimming and diving teams in the Pac-10 will travel to Westwood to take on the Pac-10 champions. UCLA will host No. 3 Stanford on Friday and No. 5 California on Saturday, two teams that have a history of beating the No. 9 Bruins in dual meets. In their history, the Bruins have […]
Women’s sports need to follow softball suit
With the president giving his State of the Union address this week, I figured it was the perfect time to go over the state of sports. George W. Bush focused his speech mainly on the war on terrorism and Iraq ““ two definite priorities, although not the main one to many Americans (anyone else worried […]
Fitzgerald’s successor must be from Bruin den
Replacing a champion is a tough task to do, but that’s exactly the undertaking Betsy Stephenson faces. The associate athletic director must find a replacement for Tom Fitzgerald, the men’s soccer coach who resigned Friday. Fitzgerald was only at UCLA for two years, but his impact on the program was tremendous. He was hired before […]
M. Soccer: Men’s soccer coach leaves team
Tom Fitzgerald resigned as UCLA men’s soccer coach Friday, leaving the team stunned. Fitzgerald leaves after a two-year stint at UCLA in which he won an NCAA Championship in 2002 and two straight Pac-10 Championships. Fitzgerald held a team meeting Thursday night, in which he told his players he was resigning primarily for family reasons. […]