Author Archives: Jeff Eisenberg

Dijon Thompson was the most outspoken of all the Bruins about the importance of ending a three-game losing streak to USC. But as he stepped to the foul line with a chance to send the game to double overtime Wednesday night, it was the Trojans’ Derrick Craven who did all the talking. “I was saying […]

A depleted indoor roster has left UCLA women’s track coach Jeanette Bolden with slightly diminished expectations as she prepares for next month’s NCAA Indoor Championships. Several of the Bruins’ top performers will sit out the entire indoor season, or compete in a limited role, leaving the squad shorthanded when it squares off with the nation’s […]

Coaxing a complaint out of Ryan Walcott is nearly impossible these days. He just won’t do it. Doesn’t matter that the junior point guard spent the first three months of the season shackled to the bench. Or that his playing time will likely be cut even further next season by the arrival of Ben Howland’s […]

Not this time. And more importantly, not this team. Giant turned giant-killer UCLA, which has felled the nation’s top-ranked team each of the last four years, mustered neither the mind-set nor the manpower necessary to extend its unlikely streak Saturday. Demonstrating trademark toughness and tenacity, No. 1 Stanford maintained its unblemished record, clinching its fourth […]

As he whooped and hollered on the bench in the final minutes of Thursday night’s victory over California, T.J. Cummings heard the roar. “We want Stanford,” the shouts echoed from the rafters as the final seconds ticked off the game clock. “That’s where our minds were, too,” Cummings admitted. “As the game started looking better […]

Coming to Westwood was not the easiest transition at first for first-year UCLA jumps coach Robert Johnson. Despite his impressive pedigree, the Bruins weren’t exactly receptive to Johnson. He was the squad’s third jumps coach in the last three years, when he took over in the fall. “They were reluctant at first,” Johnson said. “Since […]

A record-setting prep career and a sterling freshman campaign propelled Chelsea Johnson to the forefront of the collegiate pole vaulting world. Saturday, the UCLA sophomore raised the bar once again. Johnson cleared a height of 14 feet, 8 inches to take first place at the Pac-10 Indoor Championships in Seattle, establishing a new school record […]