Liiiiiive, from the Daily Bruin sports cubicle, inside majestic Kerckhoff Hall, it’s the First Annual Halfie Awards! So now, without further ado, here’s your host, Jeff Agase. Thank you, Charlie, and thank you all for the heartfelt applause. I just flew in from Roebling Avenue, and boy are my arms tired. Please, stop, you’re too […]
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James, Lindstrom score for 2-0 victory
Anybody who was anybody had taken a shot on USC goalkeeper Julie Peterson. Fourteen times the highly touted stars of the Bruins’ high-octane offense tried. But again and again, they missed. That is, until somebody who had been a nobody found the upper right corner of the net. Crystal James, a sophomore reserve who had […]
UCLA pulls itself together, will continue to next level
Down 15-0 before half the stadium filled up, left for dead with a quarterback who couldn’t even legally buy porn two months ago, the Bruins did a crazy thing. They survived. And moved on. Just like Little Mario. It wasn’t pretty, but when the evening fog had cleared at the Rose Bowl, the Bruins and […]
Win against USC could put Bruins among elite
As usual, it’s about much more than bragging rights when No. 7 UCLA goes to No. 17 USC Sunday. With both teams tied at 3-1 in the Pac-10 and the NCAA selection committee looking on from afar, the winner of this weekend’s tussle will put itself in prime position for favorable seeding in the NCAA […]
Sun Devils rise to top of Pac-10
I don’t normally throw around the phrase, “made a deal with the devil,” without referring to the 1997 Florida Marlins or to my buddy Ben landing on Boardwalk the first trip around every freaking time, but this devil-opment (wow, could I get any lamer?) is worthy. Arizona State, a team Bud Selig might have contracted […]
Disaster strikes UCLA in Berkeley
BERKELEY “”mdash; Over the course of a beautiful Berkeley afternoon, the Bruins lost two quarterbacks, blocked two punts but got no points, missed a 21-yard field goal and saw a once-promising season turn into shrugs and question marks. Oh, and did we mention doctors think Cory Paus has thrown the last pass of his college […]
Picking Pac-10 is risky business
Back when I was younger and less wise (I know it’s hard to believe), my dad and I used to play the board game RISK. He routinely beat the tar out of me, and since I stupidly thought I was smarter than him, I couldn’t figure out why. “Australia,” he used to tell me, “Australia […]