All right boys and girls, it’s time to play an old-fashioned game of “Jeff’s Crackpot Way for the Bruins to Get to the Rose Bowl Says.” Same deal as “Simon Says,” just with a laboriously drawn-out, stupider name. So … Jeff’s Crackpot Way for the Bruins to Get to the Rose Bowl says Washington is […]
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Bruins put on disappointing show
Steve Lavin said on Tuesday that he considers exhibition games to be like dress rehearsals. Apparently, the stage directions didn’t call for defense. Or winning. Instead, the Bruins acted out an uninspired tragedy that ended in a 92-67 exhibition loss to Branch West Basketball Academy Wednesday night at Pauley Pavilion. “Even a blind man could […]
Women’s soccer receives a disappointing No. 7 seed despite No. 4 national ranking
Three of the four 16-team brackets for the NCAA women’s soccer tournament had been announced, and UCLA had yet to hear its name. So there sat the Bruin women’s soccer team Monday at the Morgan Center, sporting a 16-3 record, No. 4 national ranking, seven game winning streak, and … No. 7 seed? Possible quarterfinal […]
Though ranked third in Pac-10, Bruins have yet to prove worth
Could it be true? Are the Bruins really in third place in the Pac-10? Is UCLA carrying an actual, bona fide winning streak into a USC game? And doesn’t all this beg another question? Just how good are these guys? We’ve asked this last one about the Bruins before, of course. But then, it had […]
Women’s soccer strives for double wins
With Stanford just two home wins away from an undefeated Pac-10 season, UCLA’s one loss is looking like it will be one too many. The Bruins stand at 6-1 in the conference and No. 4 in the nation coming into a weekend trip to Washington and Washington State ““ not exactly your typical second-place team, […]
Rose Bowl may be a possibility for the Bruins
Call me a naive optimist. Accuse me of having a disturbing amount of free time. Say what you will, but after minutes of painstaking finagling, I have devised a path for the UCLA Bruins to the Rose Bowl ““ for the Rose Bowl. With two losses? And a freshman quarterback? And, and … Simma. Just […]
Football and family form unforeseen friendship
The only thing more entertaining ““ and head-spinning ““ than a typical heart-taxing Bruin football game is watching one with your parents. Very rarely do I get a chance to go home to Westlake Village and sit down for some pigskin with the ‘rents, mostly because I’m either at the game or watching it with […]