Ike Williams, a backup guard on the UCLA men’s basketball team, was detained by police Sunday night after he was allegedly involved in an altercation outside a Westwood apartment. Two other members of the basketball team, shooting guard Brian Morrison and forward Josiah Johnson, were also named in the media log report, but the Los […]
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W. soccer: Lackluster play to blame for soccer losses
Dissatisfied with her team’s inconsistent effort the past few weeks, UCLA women’s soccer coach Jill Ellis reiterated her concern about the Bruins’ uninspired play on Monday. This time it was Sunday afternoon’s 1-0 loss to No. 18 Arizona that had Ellis questioning her team’s character and its desire once again. “Our mental preparation and our […]
W. soccer: UCLA’s Pac-10 title hopes take a serious hit
One victory away from seizing control of the conference race, the UCLA women’s soccer team once again could not deliver. The ninth-ranked Bruins, who entered Sunday afternoon’s game with Arizona alone in first place, saw their Pac-10 title hopes melt away in a 1-0 loss to the host Wildcats. With just one weekend remaining in […]
Defense gets sick of criticism, makes hell freeze over
Ran into the devil walking through Westwood on Halloween night, so I asked him if he bought a parka and a pair of ice skates yet. He gave me a strange look, and walked quickly in the other direction. I told him I just figured that after the UCLA defense shut out a Pac-10 opponent […]
W. soccer: Bruin’s return a welcome sight in Cal loss
If there was a bright spot for UCLA’s 1-0 loss to Cal on Sunday, it was because sophomore defender Mary Castelanelli was on the field. Castelanelli, who has been hampered all season by a pair of stress fractures in her lower back, played every minute of both games this weekend for the first time all […]
M. track: Men’s track secures top high school recruit
Determined to resuscitate UCLA’s once-dominant men’s sprints and hurdles program, coach Tony Veney took another step toward national respectability last week when he landed the program’s biggest recruiting coup in years. Kevin Craddock, easily the nation’s top prep hurdler, verbally committed to the Bruins on Wednesday, marking the second consecutive year UCLA has netted a […]
W. soccer: UCLA loses again to an unranked team
Fed up with her team’s uninspired play Sunday afternoon, UCLA women’s soccer coach Jill Ellis retreated to a solitary spot alongside the bleachers at Drake Stadium where she seethed while Cal celebrated its 1-0 double-overtime victory over the Bruins. If this was the first time seventh-ranked UCLA had suffered a mental lapse against an unranked […]