UCLA’s Natasha Watley hit a two-run home run for the USA softball team in its 4-0 gold medal win over Canada at the Pan-American Games on Aug. 15, which was highlighted by a perfect game by Texas’ Cat Osterman. Osterman threw 14 strikeouts en route to the perfect game in the finals in Santo Domingo, […]
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Orientation gets season off to a running start
Football season is finally here. After an offseason in which a new coach, Karl Dorrell, took over the program, the UCLA football team will begin practicing this week. “We have a talented group of players,” Dorrell said in a statement. “It is our job as coaches, now that we all have seen the players perform […]
Cummings curtailed from court
T.J. Cummings has been ruled academically ineligible for the 2003 fall quarter, meaning the UCLA senior forward will miss at least the first three regular season games. “We expect our players to excel both in the classroom and on the basketball court,” Bruin head coach Ben Howland said in a statement. “T.J. knows what he […]
Perry deemed academically ineligible
UCLA senior wide receiver Tab Perry has been ruled academically ineligible to play and will redshirt this season. Perry plans to return for the 2004 season. “Obviously, losing a player of Tab’s caliber is a blow to the team, but we have to move on,” head coach Karl Dorrell said in a statement. “The other […]
Fifth bowl would do nothing for small schools
The ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll came out this past week, and Oklahoma is supposedly the favorite to win the national championship. Congratulations Sooner fans. It’s too bad this a preseason poll and thus doesn’t matter. It’s also a stinging indictment about the state of affairs in college football. Once again, the traditional powerhouses are dominating […]
[Online exclusive] Mercedes-Benz Cup: Cup's No. 1 seed breaks through to quarterfinals
Lleyton Hewitt showed why he was the No. 1 seed at the Mercedes-Benz Cup on Wednesday night. He overpowered Michael Joyce with aces, hard cross-court forehands and backhands and the occasional lob, beating the American 6-3, 6-0 in the second-round match. "I felt like I was in total control of the match," the Australian and […]
[Online exclusive] Mercedes-Benz Cup: Former Bruin triumphs during first round of Mercedes-Benz Cup
Former Bruin Eric Taino went into his first-round match of the Mercedes-Benz Cup at UCLA as a huge underdog. He had been trying just to stay on the pro tour in singles, playing in only 16 tournaments this year, most of them lesser-known tournaments on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour. But even though he […]