Author Archives: Jeff Eisenberg

It wasn’t a huge serve or even a crucial point, but to Lauren Hogan, it meant everything. Despite a debilitating shoulder injury that has spelled a premature end to her volleyball career, the senior outside hitter stepped on the court at Pauley Pavilion for the first time since 2000, serving the first point of Friday’s […]

It was senior night for the women’s volleyball team at Pauley Pavilion on Friday, but ironically the Bruins’ inexperience cost them the match. Playing with just two upperclassmen in the rotation, No. 21 UCLA appeared flat during long stretches of the match, falling in four games to No. 16 Arizona 32-34, 30-21, 30-21, 30-28. The […]

Temperatures in sun-drenched Waikiki may reach the mid-eighties this weekend, but none of the UCLA women’s basketball players will come back with a tan. Although the squad travels to Oahu to open the regular season at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort Classic, it will not be there for a vacation, but rather on a business […]

As the sun set beneath the lush foothills of the Pacific Northwest, 13-year-old Troy Polamalu jogged alone on the practice field at Winston Middle School in Tenmile, Ore., clutching a worn-out football in his hands. Practice had been over for more than an hour, but the future All-American remained on the field at the bidding […]

Down 13-10 in the fifth set after hitting a ball four feet beyond the endline, Brittany Ringel could have wilted like a week-old rose. Instead the sophomore outside hitter gathered herself and made two crucial kills during the Bruins’ decisive five-point run, leading the UCLA women’s volleyball team past Arizona State on Thursday night at […]

Last Wednesday, the UCLA women’s basketball team took a trip to a local ropes course to build camaraderie and team unity. Fittingly, the Bruins’ balanced offensive attack kept the West Coast All-Stars on the ropes the entire game en route to a 90-76 victory Sunday afternoon at Pauley Pavilion. “We wanted to approach this as […]

When it comes to rivalries, we have it easy here at UCLA. With all due respect to brussels sprouts, telemarketers and people with poor oral hygiene, is there anything more loathsome than those Gucci-clad Carson Palmer apologists at the University of Southern California? And now, the school whose students have dubbed the J-Crew catalog required […]