Author Archives: Jeff Agase

Finally, the Bruins can get away from a frustrating, hostile environment where they can’t seem to win. At last, UCLA can escape the booing, leave the angry fans, and go to a place that feels like home. Somewhere like”¦ Maples Pavilion? Yep, the tiny, sweaty, Sixth Man-chanting, court-springing gym that has been a house of […]

On the way to another loss, in a season already up in flames, Steve Lavin found a new way to try and light a fire under his team. With 13 minutes, 14 seconds left in the second half of a game the Bruins (4-9, 2-3 Pac-10) would ultimately lose 87-52 to No. 2 Arizona, Lavin […]

Take an ugly bulldog. Slap on some lipstick, throw in a 40-minute press, maybe some L.A. Kings-style five-man line changes. And if you’re the for-the-dogs Bruins, what does yet another mid-season makeover make you? Apparently, still an ugly bulldog. UCLA head coach Steve Lavin fired what might be one of his last desperation shots last […]

The circus came to Westwood yesterday. But instead of shuffling into a big top, some 30 reporters and eight cameras from as far away as San Diego flooded the Morgan Center’s UCLA Hall of Fame. The crowd ““ which included athletic director Dan Guerrero ““ gathered to hear basketball head coach Steve Lavin speak publicly […]

The loudest cheers of the day from another dispirited Pauley Pavilion crowd came when new head football coach Karl Dorrell showed up toward the end of the first half. And judging from the downpour of boos on head coach Steve Lavin’s Bruins in the final seconds of an 80-65 loss to St. John’s, the ovation […]

Back when things made sense ““ when two and two made four and 4-6 was the kind of record you’d see from that team across town ““ the Bruins could practically beat USC in their sleep. But last night at Pauley Pavilion, where UCLA hadn’t lost to the Trojans since the first Clinton administration, the […]

Gone are Matt Barnes, Dan Gadzuric and Billy Knight. Sam Clancy, Brandon Granville and David Bluthenthal are off to different pastures. The names that have defined the UCLA-USC rivalry over the past three years have given way to new ones ““ like Bozeman, Thompson, Patterson, Craven and, well, Craven. “This is the beginning,” said Andre […]