Author Archives: Greg Schain

For four years, you were a faithful Bruin. You went to each home game, standing for all 40 minutes and eagerly participating in every 8-clap. You watched every road game on television, even those early Saturday morning East Coast games. And now, looking back, you likely feel an enigmatic blend of pride and embarrassment over […]

Steve Lavin will soon be regularly visiting your living room. The former UCLA head basketball coach has signed a multi-year deal with ESPN to become a studio and game analyst, ending speculation that he might become an assistant coach at Purdue University. “I guarantee I will now be undefeated at the end of the season,” […]

The year: 1977. The issue: Whether to build a new, state-of-the-art recreation and exercise facility on campus. When put to referendum, the students overwhelmingly rejected the plan. After all, not too many students worked out in 1977. Fast forward to 1978. In that year, John Wooden decided to endorse the plan and campaigned for it. […]

Tobias Clemens has been cleared by the NCAA to play in this week’s NCAA Championships, men’s tennis coach Billy Martin said Wednesday. The NCAA investigated last week whether Clemens, UCLA’s top singles player and the No. 5 player in the nation, had taken prize money while playing in a German league prior to attending UCLA […]

Men’s tennis coach Billy Martin’s intense, uninhibited concentration on the television screen in his office Wednesday signified one thing. No, he wasn’t watching Baywatch. In fact, the men’s tennis NCAA Championship draw was announced live Wednesday on ESPNews. UCLA (20-3) was granted the sixth seed in the tournament. Martin was expecting to be seeded fifth, […]

UCLA is slowly becoming one of the most enigmatic teams in college tennis. In convincing wins over quality teams, like Saturday’s 6-1 victory over Cal or last weekend’s 7-0 sweep of Washington, UCLA has shown it is worthy of being considered a national powerhouse. But other times, particularly Friday’s 4-3 home loss to Stanford, the […]

Former Pittsburgh assistant coach Ernie Zeigler was hired Monday as an assistant coach on Ben Howland’s new UCLA staff. Zeigler, who spent the past two seasons working under Howland at Pittsburgh, is the first assistant to be hired by Howland. Fellow Pittsburgh assistant Jamie Dixon will not be coming to UCLA. He has instead taken […]