Seven years and nine lives later, the Steve Lavin era is over. In perhaps one of the most anticlimactic firings in the history of college basketball, UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero announced Monday that Lavin has been released from his contract. “It’s never easy to do this,” Guerrero said. “But I love this university, and […]
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Last four minutes doom UCLA
How it happened is pretty clear. Why it had to happen, well, that’s the question that won’t go away for a long, long time. The Bruins had a Staples Center crowd of 16,689 completely stunned for the second day in a row. Up by 12 with less than four minutes to go, UCLA needed only […]
Bruins live another day after overtime upset
It was two and a half hours that seemed more like a surreal rags-to-riches Hollywood movie than a basketball game. And at the end, when Ray Young jumped up and down, arms reaching to the sky, and T.J. Cummings yelled to Andre Patterson from the end of the bench, and an animated Jason Kapono pumped […]
Men in, women out of Pac-10 tourney: Senior Day ends in victory for Bruins against Huskies, 83-72
Depending on whether your glass is half full or half empty, the Bruins either earned themselves a stay of execution or took one step closer to the guillotine. UCLA overcame Senior Day jitters and a 14-point deficit to shoot 74.2 percent from the field in the second half and beat Washington 83-72 Saturday night in […]
Young, Kapono show their seniority
Usually the end of the quarter is the worst time for senioritis. But ever since the first round of midterms passed, seniors Ray Young and Jason Kapono have had all the right symptoms: spirited leadership, a seemingly never-ending array of three-pointers and a desire to be the one with the ball when the game is […]
Kapono's Last Stand
Four years ago, Jason Kapono wasn’t too different from you or me. Oh sure, while some of us tried not to trip as we checked out that cute girl at Rieber Dining Hall, or sat in Moore 100 wondering how we’d deal with not being the smartest kid in class anymore, Kapono was making three-pointers […]
Pac-10 tournament seeds clear as mud
You have to hand it to those Pac-10 schedule makers. Though they probably never imagined it would end up this way, the three teams competing for the final two slots in the conference tournament will be in Los Angeles this weekend for a sub-.500 extravaganza, a survival of the unfittest. USC (5-11) and UCLA (4-12) […]