Author Archives: Jeff Agase

Two days ago, I went back to my old playground. There was no swingset, though. No monkey bars, no sandbox, not even any grass. That’s because my old playground is an unassuming baseball card shop in my hometown called Sportscard Outlet. I can’t remember the last time I was there. Had to be at least […]

After an 18-7 win over Washington State in Pullman on Sunday, the only certainty for Gary Adams and his UCLA baseball team is that the 2003 season is over. Whether Adams ““ who finished his 29th season as head coach of the Bruins with a 28-31 record ““ will be back for a 30th is […]

Karl Dorrell, 39, has a corner office. By most standards, he’s way ahead of schedule. He could pass for 30. It probably wouldn’t surprise the youthful Dorrell if he were mistaken for one of his players. And yet, perhaps because he speaks like a 55-year-old veteran and not like a rookie head coach, he now […]

Every Sunday at 11 a.m., whether I’m at my apartment or not, the phone rings. When I’m not there, the message always sounds like this: “Hi Jeffrey, this is your Papa. I guess I missed you, but hopefully I’ll catch you some time later. “I love you, boy.” And when I’m there, the voice on […]

The Bruins are poised to win their third straight midweek game tonight when they take on Pepperdine in Malibu, and that would be all well and good if it were the middle of March. But alas, tonight’s game is UCLA’s last midweek contest, and now that they’re four games below .500, the Bruins’ nine midweek […]

I’m a lover, not a fighter. The closest I ever get to a gun is when I play Contra on Nintendo, and even then I usually need to use the 30 lives code to beat the game. When picking a college, the whole “there-isn’t-a-50/50-chance-that-someone-will-pull-a-piece-on-you” thing put UCLA far above USC for me. But I’m always […]

All night long, the Bruins had been slamming balls over the fence. Even senior Christian Lewis, who until last night had one home run to his credit in four years, hit one out. But despite four home runs, UCLA still found itself down a run to UC Santa Barbara in the bottom of the ninth, […]