It appears that even the referees have conspired to make this basketball season a painful one for UCLA. Watching five yellow-clad Sun Devils harass the Bruins into 19 turnovers was nothing out of the ordinary, but when a sixth striped-shirted opponent stripped the ball from Ray Young late in the first half, that’s where I […]
Author Archives: Jeff Eisenberg
Greco, Blue simply cannot do it alone
Behind a one-two punch that would make Mike Tyson jealous, the UCLA women’s basketball team rode an exceptional month of January to the top of the Pac-10 conference. Then reality set in. Since starting conference play with six-straight wins, the Bruins (12-9, 7-5 Pac-10) have lost five-of-six games, and it has become increasingly clear that […]
Introducing Ward: the best thing to hit UCLA basketball
He’s not exactly muscular, and he probably has no jump-shot to speak of, but Dwight Ward might be the key to UCLA turning its woeful season around. Ward, a UCPD officer, accompanied the team on the Georgetown trip and sat on the Bruin bench during the game because some overzealous message-board psycho in the D.C. […]
Niusulu sentenced to 120 days
C.J. Niusulu, a freshman defensive lineman on the UCLA football team, was sentenced to 120 days on Monday in a San Bernadino County jail in connection to misdemeanor battery charges according to reports from The Desert Dispatch. Barstow Superior Court Judge James Dorr issued the sentence in accord with the probation officer Cecil Smith’s reports […]
UCLA falls to USC
There’s no way of knowing if the outcome would have been different, but the stage appeared set for Michelle Greco to have the ball in her hands. With the Bruins trailing crosstown rival USC by two points with 12 seconds to play, it was freshman Nikki Blue ““ and not Greco ““ whose potential game-tying […]
Basketball games are like grisly car crashes
Going to UCLA basketball games this season has been a lot like driving by a serious car wreck on the highway. You know it’s going to be ugly, you know there are going to be casualties, but you can’t force yourself not to look. But for those of you who are so deranged that you […]
Bruins make Cougars feel Blue
When the Washington State women’s basketball team last won a conference game, UCLA’s Nikki Blue was barely old enough to drive. The Bruins’ freshman phenom ensured the Cougars’ dubious two-year streak would continue, tallying 26 points as UCLA ran over the hapless Cougars last night at Friel Court in Pullman, Wash. 86-70. “Playing them was […]