Author Archives: Jeff Eisenberg

It might have been the slowest lap of her high school career, but it’s one that UCLA’s Monique Henderson will remember forever. A victory lap ““ the culmination of a day in which Henderson ““ then a 17-year-old junior at San Diego Morse High School ““ captured the state 400-meter championship in a junior national […]

Former UCLA basketball coach Steve Lavin has had multiple meetings with long-time friend and mentor Gene Keady this week about becoming the lead assistant at Purdue, a source at the university said. The source indicated that Lavin ““ a former Boilermaker assistant coach from 1989-91 ““ would only accept the job if his contract guaranteed […]

Prep All-American Charlie Villanueva is considering becoming a Bruin next year, according to various published reports. Villanueva, who originally had verbally committed to Illinois, reneged on that decision last month when then-Fighting Illini coach Bill Self left for Kansas. Villanueva has since ruled out Illinois, and is currently considering attending Kansas, North Carolina, and Connecticut […]

After spending most of the year in the shadow of a pair of Olympic hopefuls, UCLA freshman Ashley Caldwell appears to be ready to make her mark. Caldwell had been expecting to ease her way into her collegiate career behind teammates Lena Nilsson and Tiffany Burgess, but a season-ending injury sustained by Burgess has suddenly […]

After riding a Crimson Tidal wave of support all the way from Pullman to Tuscaloosa, Mike Price has been left high and dry. The former Washington State coach washed out of Alabama when the same university officials who endorsed his hiring in January called for his firing on Saturday after Price got a little too […]

As her sixth and final throw in the discus competition skidded to a halt in the middle of the soggy infield at Drake Stadium, Chaniqua Ross’ spirits fell like the raindrops that spattered at her feet. With the postseason just weeks away, Ross, the defending NCAA champion in the discus, has not recaptured her title-winning […]

She was a cut above the competition at last weekend’s dual meet against USC, but now UCLA’s Sheena Johnson is stepping up in class. When Johnson steps to the starting line in the 100- and 400-meter hurdles at the UCLA Invitational on Saturday at Drake Stadium, a host of world-class athletes will be in the […]