Author Archives: Jeff Eisenberg

Remember when committing to a college meant dialing the head coach’s phone number, and a recruiting trip was just a tour of the campus gym? Well those days are long gone. Nowadays collegiate recruiting is big business, and the top football and basketball programs around the nation will practically roll out the red carpet through […]

Chrissie Zartman stands just 5 feet, 4 inches, but what she has accomplished since coming to UCLA is nothing short of remarkable. A five-time Junior Olympic gold medalist, the sophomore took first place at the first annual World University Games Beach Volleyball Championships in June with partner Tracy Lindquist. She has played in every game […]

Kathy Olivier has pulled off a few recruiting shockers over the years, but her 2003 class is shaping up to be quite a show-stopper. The UCLA women’s basketball coach received verbal commitments from three highly touted high school seniors, prep All-American guard Noelle Quinn, forward Amanda Livingston and center Consuelo Lezcano. A 6-foot combination guard […]

Not to say that the locker room was gloomy after the UCLA women’s volleyball team dropped the first two games of Saturday’s match to Washington State, but the squad must have felt as though it was walking the Pac-10 plank. The Bruins were just one game away from falling to 1-3 in the Pac-10 with […]

I am no psychic, but I know the two questions that flashed through the mind of every blue- and gold-clad fan driving home from the Rose Bowl last Saturday afternoon. Would it be faster to get back to Westwood if I parked my car on the side of the freeway and walked? And, how did […]

Controversy is swirling around the Florida State football program yet again, but for once none of the players are being led off in handcuffs. Instead, the Tallahassee media frenzy has taken aim at head coach Bobby Bowden for his selection of the phrase “Let’s roll” as the team’s slogan for the 2002 season. Those two […]

While walking out of Maples Pavilion in January 1997 after the most lopsided loss in UCLA basketball history, I overheard a disgruntled Bruin fan sound off on then-interim head coach Steve Lavin. The man pondered Lavin’s role in the 109-61 thrashing at the hands of the Stanford Cardinal and then quipped, “Well, he’s no Jim […]