Author Archives: Jason Feder

As a first-grader at Westchester Lutheran Elementary School, Noelle Quinn played on the Dream Team. She does not have an Olympic gold medal and you won’t find her name on the 1992 roster but it might as well have been. Every day during recess, six-year-old Quinn and four friends would take on anyone and everyone. […]

This afternoon, the women’s hoops team heads to the desert to take on Arizona and Arizona State. The Bruins are not looking for the Promised Land, just a pair of wins. The Bruins (9-10, 3-4 Pac-10) face the No. 10 Arizona State Sun Devils (16-2, 6-1 Pac-10) tonight in Tempe, and butt heads with the […]

When Noelle Quinn’s desperation 3-pointer fell just short as time expired, so did the Bruins’ furious comeback against USC on Saturday at Pauley Pavilion. The result was a 75-72 loss, the Bruins’ fourth straight against the Women of Troy. UCLA started the game strong in what had all the makings of a shootout, with Amanda […]

In a perfect world, teams could bring full intensity to every game, no matter the stakes. Even though that does not happen in reality, even for the best teams, one can expect the women’s basketball team to bring the heat Saturday against USC (9-7, 3-3 Pac-10). What is on the line is enough to make […]

Every day it happens. It’s inevitable and everybody knows it. You just pray to God that it will never happen to you. But one day, when you’re waiting in line to buy that ticket for a concert or sporting event ““ or let’s say Saturday’s basketball game against USC ““ it will happen and there’s […]

Coming off one of their most emotional weeks of the season, the women’s basketball team just wanted a simple win heading into Sunday’s matchup against the Oregon Ducks. After a bad loss to Oregon State on Friday and the announcement that freshman Amy Horton will transfer out of UCLA, the squad was ready for a […]

Freshman basketball player Amy Horton has been granted a release from UCLA to transfer to a school closer to her hometown of Tallapoosa, Ga., because of an illness in the family, UCLA announced Friday. “Family is very important to me, and that’s where I need to be right now in my life,” Horton said in […]