It was the starters who put UCLA into position to beat California. But it took seldom-used reserve Nancy Barba to finish the Golden Bears off, giving the UCLA women’s volleyball team a 3-1 (30-26, 30-20, 25-30, 30-22) win Friday night at Pauley Pavilion. With game four tied 18-18 after Cal had reeled off 10 of […]
Author Archives: Gilbert Quiñonez
NCAA’s mixed postseason philosophy unfair
If all the ingredients in a recipe are excellent, then the final product has to turn out excellent, right? Wrong. In essence, the NCAA is trying to combine prime rib and maple syrup and is failing miserably. The prime rib is the old philosophy the NCAA used to make postseason brackets ““Â nationalization. Geography didn’t matter […]
M.polo: Water polo sweeps opponents
The UCLA men’s water polo team swept its opponents over the weekend, beating UC Irvine 10-7 on Saturday and Long Beach State 12-7 on Sunday. Junior driver Brett Ormsby scored nine goals over the weekend, helping the team improve to 17-5 overall and 6-1 in the MPSF, with only two games left on the schedule. […]
M. polo: UCLA faces important matches
The UCLA men’s water polo team will play at Loyola Marymount today at 3 p.m. in a non-conference match. While the No. 4 Bruins (14-5) have a better record than the No. 10 Lions (11-11), the two teams teams played a close match on Sept. 21, one that UCLA narrowly won 5-4. “UCLA is definitely […]
Football overtime rules overdue for change
Arkansas 71, Kentucky 63. That, in itself, is good. Most fans love high- scoring football games, as that Southeastern Conference game was on Saturday. Unfortunately, that game was 23-23 at the end of regulation. Seven overtimes. Seven. And that game wasn’t an unusual occurrence, either. Multiple-overtime games occur several times every season, turning games into […]
Women's soccer: Cursed or just unlucky?
In the spirit of Halloween, I give you the scariest sports story on campus. They involve spells, witchcraft, black cats and primarily a curse ““ a curse far greater than the curse of the Bambino, the curse of the Billy Goat or the curse of Steve Lavin (wait, he was just bad): The curse of […]
Fires affect SoCal teams
For once, Tobias Clemens didn’t want to play a tennis match. The All-American could have earned an automatic bid to the ITA Nationals with a win Sunday, but that was less important to him than his health. His regional championship match against USC’s Ruben Torres was supposed to take place in Carson at the Home […]